Category Archives: Emergence

The Photon and Emergence

Posted on October 3, 2012 by PlatoHagel

Consciousness Emerges From Light  Interesting thoughts being expounded by Arthur Young As a materialist, could you say that such a thing could exist..an action traveling in a space between…..the photon shot…..you visualize the spirit of something in comparison “to the … Continue reading →

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Scienceshow/Nanotechnology

Posted on October 1, 2012 by PlatoHagel

PictureThis    This show sequence contains material for easily more than 2 hours of stand-up nanotechnology show with plenty of hands-on activities to keep the audience occupied for much longer. There is a kind of red thread going through the … Continue reading →

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About Knowledge

Posted on July 28, 2012 by PlatoHagel

“As to you, Life, I reckon you are the leavings of many deaths, No doubt I have died myself ten thousand times before.” “Leaves of Grass” by Walt Whitman Justified true belief…..does it matter what knowledge could exist in or … Continue reading →

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Music of the Quantum

Posted on February 14, 2012 by PlatoHagel

The weird quantum nature of the atomic world challenges us to revise the way we view the world around us. We learn that our everyday world – built out of the myriad superposition of matter waves, has an unexpected capacity … Continue reading →

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Historical Figures Lead Us to the Topic of Entanglement

Posted on January 22, 2010 by PlatoHagel

Einstein Exhibit We regard quantum mechanics as a complete theory for which the fundamental physical and mathematical hypotheses are no longer susceptible of modification. –Heisenberg and Max Born, paper delivered to Solvay Congress of 1927 You know I have watched … Continue reading →

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The New Garden of Eden

Posted on August 19, 2008 by PlatoHagel

Is it more astonishing that a God created all that exists in six days, or that the natural processes of the creative universe have yielded galaxies, chemistry, life, agency, meaning, value, consciousness, culture without a Creator. In my mind and … Continue reading →

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The Inconceivable being Believable

Posted on July 28, 2008 by PlatoHagel

While string theory does not, at this point, predict our world, it can at the very least plausibly encompass it. No other theory has been shown to do that. Aaron Bergman’s book review of Peter Woit’s I think there is … Continue reading →

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Ueber die Hypothesen, welche der Geometrie zu Grunde liegen.

Posted on January 24, 2008 by PlatoHagel

As I pounder the very basis of my thoughts about geometry based on the very fabric of our thinking minds, it has alway been a reductionist one in my mind, that the truth of the reality would a geometrical one. … Continue reading →

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The center and the whole-what it means?

Posted on January 2, 2008 by PlatoHagel

If conceived as a series of ever-wider experiential contexts, nested one within the other like a set of Chinese boxes, consciousness can be thought of as wrapping back around on itself in such a way that the outermost ‘context’ is … Continue reading →

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The History of Magnetic Vision

Posted on September 28, 2007 by PlatoHagel

Grossmann is getting his doctorate on a topic that is connected with non-Euclidean geometry. I don’t know what it is. Einstein to Mileva Maric,1902 Animal Navigation The long-distance navigational abilities of animals have fascinated humans for centuries and challenged scientists … Continue reading →

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