Monthly Archives: February 2007

Science’s Responsibility While Investigating Consciousness?

Posted on February 28, 2007 by PlatoHagel

Our attempt to justify our beliefs logically by giving reasons results in the “regress of reasons.” Since any reason can be further challenged, the regress of reasons threatens to be an infinite regress. However, since this is impossible, there must … Continue reading →

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Soul Food

Posted on February 27, 2007 by PlatoHagel

The Man Who Tasted Shapes: A Bizarre Medical Mystery offers Revolutionary Insights into Emotions, Reasoning, and Consciousness, 2003: Revised MIT Press edition with new afterword Not everyone will understand the title of this post? I will proceed to make this … Continue reading →

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Artifacts of the Geometrical WunderKammern

Posted on February 26, 2007 by PlatoHagel

As one visits the mathematical puzzles and conjectures, what value these insights to the physics or our universe if we did not see things in this way? As artifacts of some other kind of geometrical thinking that we could then … Continue reading →

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The Colour of Gravity

Posted on February 25, 2007 by PlatoHagel

I am not sure how this post is to unfold, yet in my mind different exercises were unfolding as to how I should explain it. Can I come from an artist’s perspective I wondered? Say “by chance” anything that seems … Continue reading →

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Newton’s Space was the Sensorium

Posted on February 24, 2007 by PlatoHagel

Sir Isaac Newton, FRS (4 January 1643 – 31 March 1727) [OS: 25 December 1642 – 20 March 1727] was an English physicist, mathematician, astronomer, alchemist, and natural philosopher who is generally regarded as one of the greatest scientists and … Continue reading →

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NASA’s Hubble Telescope Celebrates SN 1987A’s 20th Anniversary

Posted on February 24, 2007 by PlatoHagel

A String of ‘Cosmic Pearls’ Surrounds an Exploding Star-NASA, ESA, P. Challis, and R. Kirshner (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics) Twenty years ago, astronomers witnessed one of the brightest stellar explosions in more than 400 years. The titanic supernova, called SN … Continue reading →

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Where are my keys?

Posted on February 24, 2007 by PlatoHagel

“Yet I exist in the hope that these memoirs, in some manner, I know not how, may find their way to the minds of humanity in Some Dimensionality, and may stir up a race of rebels who shall refuse to … Continue reading →

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Light and Matter United

Posted on February 23, 2007 by PlatoHagel

Murray Gellman: On Plectics It is appropriate that plectics refers to entanglement or the lack thereof, since entanglement is a key feature of the way complexity arises out of simplicity, making our subject worth studying. I was talking about some … Continue reading →

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The Perfect Sphere

Posted on February 20, 2007 by PlatoHagel

Before I begin I had to mention the following two entries below that I wanted to do but was short on time. This recording was produced by converting into audible sounds some of the radar echoes received by Huygens during … Continue reading →

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Turtles All The Way Down

Posted on February 18, 2007 by PlatoHagel

“Turtles all the way down” refers to an infinite regression belief about the nature of the universe (see Cosmology). For Hawking, the turtle story is one of two accounts of the nature of the universe; he asserts that the turtle … Continue reading →

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