If you’ve ever become bored with eating the same kind of lunch every day, looked at your sleeping partner and wondered what you ever saw in them or regretted your career choice, you’ve felt the effects of one of our most highly developed survival mechanisms.

Whether marijuana is harmful or beneficial for the brain is unclear. Although scientific studies of cannabis and its effects seem to pop up daily, many of them tend to be inconclusive or in need of further evaluation

The concepts of self, story, emotion and empathy are closely linked in the human animal. Whatever they can teach us about what we are and where we’re headed, it’s certain they’ve played a pretty big part in getting us this far.