Two Dogmas of Empiricism by Willard Van Orman Quine Greg Bullock from the Facebook group Athenaeum Electronica asked me to look into this paper by Quine and report back what I think. Recently, the group had a question about how important we thought religion or spirituality was as opposed to science. Entangled, the …
Fruiting Bodies: The End State of Conscious Continuity
If we are to consider our lives as we see them, as continuous, and the universe, the same, then the idea of fruiting bodies might be the only way death comes upon us (as something positive). Let’s look at ourselves as fruiting bodies for our many relationship boundaries. In the multicellular organic world …
April 28, 2018 ∏:(3.14159)
April 28, 2018 ∏: (3.14159) How much faster than light can our universe be seen to expand in our direction? A long time ago, in order to reduce friction with the ground and move heavy objects (faster than dragging them) the wheel was invented. The neat thing about the wheel is …
April 27, 2018 Z: Zero
April 27, 2018 Z: Zero (A useful limit that has no existence in our universe). Zero, what a silly word to discuss. I mean, everyone knows what zero means, don’t they? Here’s the dictionary definition. Here’s the wikipedia mathematics definition. Now here’s mine: There is no such thing as zero in any aspect of our …
April 26, 2018 Y: Yin and Yang
April 26, 2018 Y: Yin and Yang (The feminine and masculine aspects of the world) There are those who do not believe in dualisms (that all aspects of the universe or any system within that universe can be put under two major aspect categories). WHAT IS BEHIND WHAT IS is all we can say about …
April 25, 2018 X: X-ray Telescopes
April 25, 2018 X: X-ray Telescopes (X-rays are not just about seeing our bones). NOTE: IMAGE FROM NASA’S CHANDRA X-RAY OBSERVATORY SITE (most other images of the moon or sky are the author’s) All free energy in the universe comes as electromagnetic waves. The higher the wave frequency (the shorter the wavelength and the greater …
April 23, 2018 W: What Is vs What Is Behind What Is
April 23, 2018 W: What Is vs What Is Behind What Is (Another look at reality) In Commentaries on Living, philosopher/psychologist Krishnamurti speaks about the WHAT IS. WHAT IS is mostly what we know about our world. Actually, it is everything we know about our world (in word, in mathematics, in image, in all explicit …
April 22, 2018 V: Voyager Satellite/Probe
April 22, 2018 V: Voyager Satellite/Probe (What it tells us about the shape of space). The reason I chose to look at the Voyager spacecraft has, of course, something to do with THE EXPERIMENT; how this analog might help to predict the meaning of anomalous data collected and transmitted from Voyager I, and what it …
April 21, 2018 U: Uncertainty
April 21, 2018 U: Uncertainty (What it can mean in everyday life). What is really meant by Uncertainty with a capital U? Uncertainty, aka Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle, was suggested in order to understand the quantum nature or reality of the behaviors of subatomic particles. Here we’re going to show you how Uncertainty doesn’t just apply …
