Sunday, April 27, 2014

D-Wave upends logical positivism

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Logical positivism rests on a commitment to falsifiable theorems. The issue for urban primates -- whether they can ever 'understand'...
Wednesday, April 23, 2014

A personality without a person

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The beauty of an elaborate conjecture, the emergent personality of Rough Beast, derives from my hope for useful refutation. The original con...
Saturday, April 19, 2014

Natural Teleology

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In this video , Sean Carroll describes a scientific framework for a teleological stance  regarding the noosphere . My short-hand version of...
Thursday, April 17, 2014

Quantum non-local circuit

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Kirk 1.0 - understanding the first four circuits Kirk 2.0 - mastery of the first six circuits Kirk 3.0 - begins awareness and understandin...
Sunday, April 13, 2014

Dinner with Paco and Jen -- follow-up correspondence

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I just read an article about this question this week (synchonisity) which explained that unless we recalled our first memories (2.5-4 years ...

Bad meetings and bad feelings

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First Entry Sat afternoon: Let me start out by saying that my 12th step work is wearing me out. Then the meetings. Meeting #1 was a rare tr...
Saturday, April 12, 2014

The dove's dream

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The dove dreams of effortless flight but pushes against the wind to stay aloft. We chase ghosts across the multiverse . That is, an organi...
Thursday, April 10, 2014

This I believe

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I use the intentional stance to try on various beliefs about belief.Currently, I have a belief about the proposition that Siddhartha Gauta...