Duality

The Firing Synapse: Nature’s Guide to Choosing a Mate

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The Firing Synapse: Nature’s Guide to Female Choice

In the theater of courtship, who really makes the call? Evolutionary science, human behavior, and dating app data all point to one resounding answer: the woman. Like the final gatekeeper, she decides if the flirtation turns into a date, if the date becomes a relationship, or if it ends with a polite “thanks, but no thanks.”

And guess what?

This decisive moment mirrors one of the most fundamental acts in the universe—when a neuron fires.

⚡️ Synaptic Selectivity = Female Choice

Neuroscience teaches us that a neuron doesn’t just fire willy-nilly. It receives hundreds, sometimes thousands of inputs—some excitatory (“go for it!”) and others inhibitory (“abort mission!”). These inputs are collected and weighed by the neuron. Only when the combined signal reaches a precise threshold does the neuron generate an action potential—a jolt of electricity that leaps across the synapse and continues the message down the line. In essence, a decision is magde.

Now imagine the neuron is a woman on a first date.

She’s hearing it all:
“Nice suit” (excitatory)
“Bad joke” (inhibitory)
“Great smile” (excitatory)
“Name-dropped his crypto portfolio again” (double inhibitory)

Her system is summing it up, consciously and subconsciously. And only if the total signal crosses her threshold of attraction, trust, and interest, does she make the next move—accept another drink, agree to meet again, or take things to the next level.

Nature is Built on Filters, Not Free-for-Alls

A synapse is not a freeway—it’s a checkpoint. Just as neurons protect the brain from overstimulation and chaos by choosing what signal gets passed, women (and choosier mates in many species) safeguard their genetic and emotional investment by filtering who gets through.

This isn’t gatekeeping. It’s biological intelligence. It’s system design. The same natural logic that built our minds built our mating systems.

From Synapses to Swipes

It’s no accident that dating apps show women swipe right far less often than men. They’re performing a neural-like function—filtering noise, looking for signal strength, calculating thresholds. Every swipe is like a neuron summing inputs, deciding if the connection deserves an electric jolt.

Because whether it’s a synapse deciding to fire or a woman deciding to lean in—not every signal deserves a response.

Without Prejudice (i.e. this post is an idea that emerged on a walk one day that I found intriguing and that helps demonstrate the connectivity between different layers of being). It is not intended to be an absolute nor criticize either gender, it is in fact a celebration of being and our experience of it.

Happy Female Principal Day

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Happy Mothers Day to all moms—past, present, and future!

Thanks for everything you do!

Thanks for being patient, sharing, accepting, loving, and for being supportive.

Thanks for sharing all of life’s pleasures unselfishly and abundantly—food, children, home, beauty, fashion, and grace.

Thanks for being the center of society—for being the glue that holds families and society together.

Thanks for defining what’s important, real, and right.

Thanks for guiding my lost species (i.e. men) from cradle to grave. Without you to guide them, they would surely destroy one another and the planet.

Here’s to mom’s today and every day!

The Shape of the Core

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Protons and neutrons are not what you think. They are not simple spherical ‘balls’ as most suspect.

Protons and nucleons are actually comprised of dense cloud of particles (both real and virtual) keyed to a deeply attractive, void-like center perpetuating the swarm as the following passage from Fritjof Capra’s book the Tao of Physics succinctly describes.

“nucleons are, in fact, emitting and absorbing virtual particles all the time. According to field theory, they have to be regarded as centers of continuous activity surrounded by clouds of virtual particles”

And though we tend to associate chaos with the term swarm, the relationships amongst subatomic particles is in fact highly organized and symmetrical. Known as Meson symmetry, the accompanying diagrams depicts the dualistically arranged almost fulcrum-like arrangement of particles about their center.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 It’s interesting to note the Meson Symmetry figure closely resembles Taoism’s I Ching symbol intended to represent the natural order of things which, incredibly enough was developed thousands of years before the tools of science were sophisticated enough to detect the minute details of subatomic particles!

Gatekeepers of Humanity

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Woman have a corner on life’s greatest pleasures (food, children, beauty, fashion, grace, human connection etc.). They are truly the gate keepers of humanity.

Thank goodness! Could you imagine what men would do with these precious commodities if they controlled them?!

First they would exploit them, than fight over them, and then destroy them!

Thank goodness woman were granted this divine power.