A Story of Stories

An animal’s behavior isn’t an independent entity. It’s the dependent variable in this equation:

We talked about emergence and how the giant is what humanity looks like a few floors up the tower from the individual.

Every night after the Johnsons put Lulu to bed, she waits until they leave the room and then she crawls out the window to go riding around with the bad baby (Lulu’s friend) who lives down the block.

With Lulu, the Johnsons had a whole array of options (to consider).

Primal Motivations + Environment = Behavior

First, their primal motivations are super complex. On top of all the standard animal desires, humans are incentivized by all kinds of weird Snausages and electric fences. They crave self-esteem and want to avoid shame. They yearn for praise and acceptance and detest loneliness or embarrassment. They pine for meaning and fulfillment and they fear re... See more

Humans learn via direct experience, but their advanced language and imagination capabilities offer them a second learning pathway.

Moochie never comes when the Johnsons call him, and whenever they open the front door, Moochie jumps out the door and runs away.

Then there’s Lulu. (Their daughter)