I think, therefore I am' - René Descartes 1596 - 1650
Recently, Kathy has asked or 85 year old mother, Fran, who has been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, a couple of questions about her past. Did she remember food rationing during the war years? Where did certain people...
In Hacker News this week I found two articles, right next to each other, that shared a theme. I’ll call this theme “I’m not as smart as I seem” or maybe “A crisis in confidence and I...
This afternoon, K, Fran, & I drove to Western Washington University in Bellingham, WA to listen to Nick Wees play his junior trumpet recital. It was a beautiful day, about 75F and sunny. After dropping...
From The Poetry Foundation Kubla Khan By Samuel Taylor Coleridge Or, a vision in a dream. A Fragment. In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree: Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless...
Because we can think and verbalize a specific idea, and map it to a set of values, does not make that idea fit for application in any broader sense. The idea must contribute or at least...
“ Great is the Earth, and the way it became what it is; Do you imagine it has stopt at this? the increase abandon’d? Understand then that it goes as far onward from this,...
There is some relationship between complexity, abstraction, and future of mankind in general. Civilization seems to be running a course from primitive animal with basic survival instincts and evolutionary traits to the self-reflecting and self-modifying...