Qualiatavistic Futures
We are survival machines – robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes. This is a truth which still fills me with astonishment –Richard Dawkins (1941-present) We may be machines, but we are not blindly programmed. We are a renaissance awaiting. There are grasshoppers which canContinue Reading
Black Holes and Belonging
So when I talk about a snowflake melting or subatomic particles coming together – basically that fundamental connection in which qualia helps matter endure – and I say there’s a sense of belonging, well, even though we don’t want to call it consciousness (because we just don’t know) we actuallyContinue Reading
Say It Ain’t So!
It ain’t so much the things we don’t know that get us into trouble. It’s the things we know that ain’t so — Artemus Ward (1834 – 1867) Take for instance, that grass is green, or that rocks are hard. We know they are. Except we don’t because they onlyContinue Reading