Category: Philosophy
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The Mythic Dimension
If I were going to help Deepak in his argument with Leonard (Leonard Mlodinow) I might say: “Deepak, ask him whether he believes in the 4th dimension. After he says, ‘Yes,’ ask him to point to it.” He can’t. He can’t even imagine it. Our brains are incapable of even imagining it. They’re hard wired…
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Spirituality vs Science: Missing the Point
A few minutes into that video on the previous post Leonard Mlodinow says something like neither Hawking nor he, and presumably neither science in general, rule out the possibility of there being a God. But really thinking of “God” as a fact is not what spirituality is about. God as a symbol for that which…
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The War of the Worldviews: A Zen Review
OK, so I haven’t read the book. Or have I? Quantum theory would say that there is at least one Universe in which I have. But we’ll stick with the consciousness that I am experiencing now. I haven’t read the book. I’ve seen Deepak tweet about it for a while now. I follow Leonard Mlodinow,…
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The Age of Authenticity
This girl is selling a MILLION copies a year of her fiction WITHOUT A PUBLISHER on the Kindle platform. Here’s the Business Insider story about her. Here’s the original blogger’s story about her, from whom BI got their story. Here’s her personal blog. (Hey, but at least everybody’s linking!) Arcade Fire not only is selling…
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Ebert, Dawkins, Maher, & Hitchens’ Neo-Determinism
Determinism, the idea that everything can be explained, has a “reason”, died in 1906, the “Miracle” Year when Einstein came up with Special Relativity. Turned out Light didn’t care what the Victorians thought and didn’t obey “reason.” By 1925, with the Quantum Theory, whatever vestige of this mechanized view of the World was laid to…