Tag Archives: Outside Time

Intelligent Life in the Universe?

Posted on April 27, 2010 by PlatoHagel

While Drake’s equation is a good basis for systematic investigations of signals from extraterrestrial intelligences, I care little about the admittedly scarce possibility that we ever receive positive news from our SETI searches. I care more about the fact that, … Continue reading →

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About Complexity

Posted on October 27, 2009 by PlatoHagel

Robert Betts Laughlin (born November 1, 1950) is a professor of Physics and Applied Physics at Stanford University who, together with Horst L. Störmer and Daniel C. Tsui, was awarded the 1998 Nobel Prize in physics for his explanation of … Continue reading →

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Where Susskind leaves off, Seth Lloyd begins

Posted on September 14, 2009 by PlatoHagel

A picture, a photograph, or a painting is not the real world that it depicts. It’s flat, not full with three dimensional depth like the real thing. Look at it from the side-almost edge on. It doesn’t look anything like … Continue reading →

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Oh Dear!… How Technology has Changed Things

Posted on February 21, 2009 by PlatoHagel

Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beautya beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture, without appeal to any part of our weaker nature, without the gorgeous trappings of painting or music, yet sublimely pure, and capable … Continue reading →

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Gedanken Experiments

Posted on January 2, 2009 by PlatoHagel

While some might consider the multi-dimensional nature of the emotive states laughter does indeed go a long way. It is not without consideration here that such a thinking moves beyond the normal everyday. We are all embroiled in it, one … Continue reading →

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Are you an "in" or an "out of the box" kind of person?

Posted on May 26, 2008 by PlatoHagel

See: Three Ring Circus: Dark EnergyUnfortunately this image is not very clear in terms of the writing inside the black boxes but if you are careful enough they can be quite illuminating, as we see this at work in our … Continue reading →

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Time is Like a River

Posted on April 3, 2008 by PlatoHagel

How can a speck of a universe be physically identical to the great expanse we view in the heavens above? (Greene, The Elegant Universe, pages 248-249) As Alice learned, it’s not always clear what’s a looking glass, and what’s a … Continue reading →

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The Soul=λόγος,θυμος,ἔρως

Posted on February 26, 2008 by PlatoHagel

21 Grams The title of the movie comes from the work of Dr. Duncan MacDougall, who in the early 1900s sought to measure the weight purportedly lost by a human body when the soul departed the body upon death. MacDougall … Continue reading →

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Inside Out

Posted on February 12, 2008 by PlatoHagel

3.1 As Cytowic notes, Plato and Socrates viewed emotion and reason as in a kind of struggle, one in which it was vitally important for reason to win out. Aristotle took a more moderate view, that both emotion and reason … Continue reading →

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Mind Maps: Mathematical Structures?

Posted on February 4, 2008 by PlatoHagel

<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platonic_doctrine_of_recollection&quot; target=_BLank title="The Platonic doctrine of recollection is the idea that we are born possessing all knowledge and our realization of that knowledge is contingent on our discovery of it. Whether the doctrine should be taken literally or not … Continue reading →

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