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An Uncertain Future
Given what we think we know about the age of the universe, planet earth and the myriad of creatures that have and are continuing to inhabit it since life first appeared, we have arrived only recently as a species uniquely … Continue reading
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On the Nature of Reality
Simply put, reality is experiencing the world in real-time, the here and now and “the place” where we interact with it. It is the state of things as they are when we encounter them, as opposed to how they may … Continue reading
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On The Nature of Consciousness
Somehow, our consciousness is the reason the universe is here. (Sir Roger Penrose) So, what is consciousness? Consciousness is a way of being in the world that appears to go beyond any known physical properties in the material universe, … Continue reading
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The Substance of the World
Baruch Spinoza was a Dutch philosopher of Portuguese-Jewish extraction who lived from 1632-1677. Spinoza strongly rejected the notion of a providential God – the God of Abraham Isaac and Jacob, in complete control of all things; he claims that the … Continue reading
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The World as Form and Function
Reality is created by observers in the universe – John Archibald Wheeler, Theoretical Physicist (1911-2008) Today I am revisiting the views held by Schopenhauer in The World as Will and Idea (1818), and his rejection of naïve realism, or what has been … Continue reading
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Our Heavenly Home
… But Trailing Clouds Of Glory Do We Come, From God, who is our home: Heaven lies about us in our infancy!” (William Wordsworth) Apart from the obligatory nod to the prevailing local deity at the time that this was … Continue reading
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The Cosmos Explained – Well, Maybe …
There is a scene in the movie Terminator 2, where the next generation terminator – who had morphed himself into a cop – is frozen solid after a tanker truck filled with liquid nitrogen spills its load all over him. … Continue reading
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