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Where Am I? A Thought Experiment

Tuesday, November 22nd, 2011

Many years ago the philosopher Daniel Dennett wrote an ingenious essay entitled Where Am I?  It is a fictional story where the pentagon asks the professor to go on a top-secret mission deep within the Earth, but in order to complete the task, they need to remove his brain from his body due to extreme [...]

A Physicist’s Ramblings

Saturday, November 5th, 2011

What drives you to do the things you do?  What makes you get up in the morning?  What’s your deepest passion?  As for me, I crave a deeper understanding of what’s going on around me.  I’ve set my aim on discovering something new about the universe before I die.  I want to add some new [...]

The Yin And Yang Of The Mind

Monday, September 5th, 2011

I’d like to continue the discussion of yesterday and elaborate on a topic which is really interesting to me:  the yin and yang of the mind.  As I was reflecting on this idea today, I mainly considered how the mind is a swirl of yin and yang, like a lollipop. Let’s start with being thankful [...]

Is It Better Never To Have Lived?

Saturday, September 3rd, 2011

Are any of you familiar with a philosophical idea called anti-natalism?  I was listening to various people debate the idea on youtube and found it strange that I’d never heard of it.  I hope I’m not oversimplifying the idea, but from what I gather, it’s the idea that it would be better if we’d never [...]

Who’d Have Thought, I’m Still A Religious Person

Sunday, August 28th, 2011

Just recently the new semester began and I found myself in a physics course.  Shortly after going over his syllabus, my professor had a short talk about science and religion.  Basically he said that science deals with things that can be objectively observed and tested; everything else is religion.  As I was on my way [...]

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