Author Archives: PlatoHagel

Birds on Their Migrations

Posted on April 29, 2008 by PlatoHagel

Sandhill Crane(Grus canadensis) On the drive into town today, my wife pointed out these birds in the field above. She went back later, after arriving at home and unloading the building supplies we needed. We have never seen them before. … Continue reading →

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Wikipedia Portal:Mind and Brain

Posted on April 27, 2008 by PlatoHagel

What is the compelling urgency of the machine that it can so intrude itself into the very stuff out of which man builds his world?JOSEPH WEIZENBAUM 1923 – 2008 See: Eliza What is beauty in face of simplicity? >Beauty, Plato … Continue reading →

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Ouroboros:The Left/Right Brain

Posted on April 25, 2008 by PlatoHagel

simbolo alquímico (Ouroboros serpent in old Greek alchemical manuscript) The Ouroboros, also spelled Ourorboros, Oroborus, Uroboros or Uroborus (pronounced /ˌjʊəroʊˈbɒrəs/ or /ʊˈrɒbɔrɔs/), is an ancient symbol depicting a serpent or dragon swallowing its own tail and forming a circle. It … Continue reading →

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The Primitive Aspects of Being

Posted on April 24, 2008 by PlatoHagel

“God does not care about our mathematical difficulties – he integrates empirically.“ Albert Einstein See also Cerebral Hemisphere So I got up and I jumped onto my cardio glider, which is a full-body exercise machine. And I’m jamming away on … Continue reading →

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Factoids and Censorship

Posted on April 23, 2008 by PlatoHagel

Often taking the time to absorbed the full perspective of the writer is just as much an effort as it is to understand the nature and understanding of research and information development about a topic. Where that writer leaves off. … Continue reading →

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Cerebral hemisphere

Posted on April 22, 2008 by PlatoHagel

Stroke of insight:Jill Bolte Taylor So who are we? We are the life force power of the universe, with manual dexterity and two cognitive minds. And we have the power to choose, moment by moment, who and how we want … Continue reading →

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There Be Dragons?

Posted on April 17, 2008 by PlatoHagel

Map of North America from 1566 showing both Terra In Cognita and Mare In Cognito. Terra incognita (with “incognita” stressed on the second syllable) is the Latin term for “unknown land”, used in cartography for regions that have not been … Continue reading →

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Configuration Space

Posted on April 16, 2008 by PlatoHagel

Lee Smolin: For Newton the universe lived in an infinite and featureless space.There was no boundary, ad no possibility of conceiving anything outside of it. This was no problem for God, as he was everywhere. For Newton, space was the … Continue reading →

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Calorimetric Views

Posted on April 14, 2008 by PlatoHagel

BEHOLDING beauty with the eye of the mind, he will be enabled to bring forth, not images of beauty, but realities, for he has hold not of an image but of a reality, and bringing forth and nourishing true virtue … Continue reading →

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The Toposense of Spacetime

Posted on April 11, 2008 by PlatoHagel

Topo-Greek, from topos, place. Basic Examples In the early 1960s Grothendieck chose the Greek word topos (which means “place”) to denote a mathematical object that would provide a general framework for his theory of étale cohomology and other variants related … Continue reading →

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