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The Religion Of Science

Wednesday, January 4th, 2012

Yesterday I came across an article which really caught my attention.  It contained a rather harsh analysis of the worldview behind science. Is there a god? No. What is the nature of reality? What physics says it is. What is the purpose of the universe? There is none. What is the meaning of life? Ditto. Why am I here? Just dumb luck. Is there [...]

Engineering The Mind

Friday, December 30th, 2011

As I woke up today, I found myself wondering what it is that drives my near obsession with understanding the human mind.  By far it’s the subject I’m most interested in.  I have bookshelves of textbooks on neuroscience, cognitive science, psychology, artificial intelligence, neural computation, and many more.  Though it’s been a rather long and [...]

Chasing Yourself

Friday, December 23rd, 2011

The past week I’ve been reading Brian Greene’s new book called The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes And The Deep Laws Of The Cosmos.   It’s very late and I’m extremely tired, so I’m not going to write a long post here tonight.  If this is a bit brief and terse, forgive me. What I find [...]

Continuing A Great Man’s Quest

Saturday, December 17th, 2011

Just the other day I posted a video where researchers in machine vision took a digital film of them roaming about a college campus and extracted a 3D model of the entire campus from the film images alone.  Depth information can be extracted based on the rate of how the colored pixels change relative to [...]

The Illusion of Self

Sunday, November 27th, 2011

I’ve never really found any definition or account of the “self” to be satisfactory.  To me, it’s the single most important question to answer, but I never seemed to make any progress.  The self is something unique, the set of all essential qualities making someone distinct from everyone else.  I’ve never been able to find [...]

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