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Bookmark THE GASTRULATION OF GEIST – Vast Abrupt
‘One of their philosophers has lately discovered that “as the liver secretes bile, so does the brain secrete thought”; which astonishing discovery Dr Cabanis, more lately still, in his ‘Rapports du…

June 8 2021, 11:55am | Comments
Bookmark The Latest : 35-year-old Voyager 1 skirts solar system edge with an…
With an eight-track tape recorder and 100,000 times less memory than an iPod, Voyager 1 is celebrating its 35th birthday at the edge of the solar system. Traipsing through a giant,…

September 5 2012, 1:05am | Comments
Bookmark Philip K. Dick, Sci-Fi Philosopher (Part 2) : Future Gnostic
In the very first lines of “Exegesis” Dick writes, “We see the Logos addressing the many living entities.” Logos is an important concept that litters the pages of “Exegesis.” It is…

May 22 2012, 3:14am | Comments
Bookmark A universe without purpose
The illusion of purpose and design is perhaps the most pervasive illusion about nature that science has to confront on a daily basis. Everywhere we look, it appears that the world…

April 2 2012, 2:38pm | Comments
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Oldest Alien Planets Found—Born at Dawn of Universe

March 27 2012, 2:05pm | Comments
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Why Does Our Universe Have Three Dimensions?

January 23 2012, 7:35am | Comments
Bookmark Why the Basis of the Universe Isn’t Matter or Energy—It’s Data
Information flows everywhere, through wires and genes, through brain cells and quarks. But while it may appear ubiquitous to us now, until recently we had no awareness of what information was…

March 6 2011, 3:43am | Comments
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Bookmark From Eternity to Here
The arrow of time points in one direction only, from past to present to future. Now there's a fact—rather like Wittgenstein's observation "A is the same thing as A"—that is so…

January 12 2010, 2:15am | Comments
Bookmark This Is Not Your Grade School Solar System
Pick up a 30-year-old astronomy textbook and you will find more illustrations of planets than actual pictures; Pluto still holds onto its full planet status and exoplanets are theoretical. In the…

November 19 2009, 3:46pm | Comments
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October 13 2009, 11:25pm | Comments
Misc Fallacy of Misplaced Concreteness

May 24 2009, 2:52pm | Comments
Bookmark Within Any Possible Universe, No Intellect Can Ever Know It All |…
Deep in the deluge of knowledge that poured forth from science in the 20th century were found ironclad limits on what we can know. Werner Heisenberg discovered that improved precision regarding,…

March 17 2009, 9:35am | Comments
Ask Metafilter The Various Workings of a Cube-Shaped Gallery | Ask MetaFilter Imagine a cube-shaped building, with ten cube-shaped rooms along each side (10 rooms long, 10 high & 10 deep). Each cubular room has 4 walls, 1 ceiling and 1 floor. Each of the 6 interior surfaces in all 1000 cubular rooms is decorated…

April 25 2007, 3:39am | Comments
Metafilter The Simulacrisation of Technology into Life As the Pentagon ousts plans to turn insects into cyber war machines you'd be forgiven for asking the question: Where does the real digital end and the faked life begin? Are we simulating life synthetically? or just speeding up an entirely natural process?…

March 15 2006, 8:09pm | Comments

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