I feel like this guy is what I’ve become over the past few years. It’s a pretty hilarious video. I could definitely be friends with someone like this.
Category Archives: philosophy
Baseball, Free Will, and the Nature of Existence
Sean Carroll has managed to touch on three of my favorite subjects in one, albeit cumbersome, blog post. Here’s an excerpt: We talk about the world using different levels of description, appropriate to the question of interest. Some levels might be thought of as “fundamental” and others as “emergent,” but they are all there. Does [...]
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This Simple Ideal
Found some great food for thought in the comments to the latest Big Think blog post, “Stephen Hawking, Ray Kurzweil, Michio Kaku: Whose Idea Will Most Impact Our World — You Decide!” (http://bigthink.com/ideas/39160). While the article itself does a great job of summarizing a few predictions of some of our most brilliant minds, I thought [...]
