Philosophy

Many people wonder what consciousness is, but perhaps its the wrong question to ask. Maybe we should be asking, what the point of consciousness is...

Will we ever admit that AI has become smarter than us? Or is it a goal that will always be just out of reach...

What is the meaning of life? Meaning is often discussed in a philosophical context, but in reality meaning is a feeling. Just like any other feeling, we can find reliable ways to create a sense of meaning in ourselves.

Giving AI the ability to read and write is a turning point in the course of its development, going far beyond its ability to see and imagine. Will our life…

Sometimes things need to get worse before they get better. Sometimes things need to get messier before they become clear. Sometimes you need an initial push to…

Relatively recently, I wrote a review on Goodreads of the book \\”The Secret Commonwealth\\” by Philip Pullman. I initially knocked the book a star. I thought…

The only way to learn is to learn out of curiosity, otherwise, there’s no motivation. If you learn due to an external drive, you’re not really learning. If you…

A Sisyphean perspective sheds light on the age-old question of whether money can buy happiness. <table cellpadding=”0” cellspacing=”0”…

What I am about to tell you about is magic – REAL magic – that can be performed using mere mathematics. This is not a trick. It is reality. I will tell you how…

“Do not simply tell people what happens in a story – show them”. This is a major pseudo-rule in story telling. Its what turns a series of random events into a…

When somebody knows everything, they might be right in their own eyes, but certainly not from a less biased perspective. Knowing everything means that there is…

This graph is analogical to movement in the universe. It is in fact the graph of the reciprocal of the hyperbolic tan function. What I wanted to demonstrate was…

Probability and an elementary, almost axiomatically governing rule of the universe (thoughts given through the analogy of a complex puzzle) I will attempt in…

This article is not about the magic of the Harry Potter Universe – that which fuels the dynamics of wizarding society, but rather the magic that seems to fuel…

Imaginary numbers are one of the mysterious parts of mathematics, which most people have heard about – but not many people truly understand. The first thing…

You may have learnt the formula in school: $\\\\sum\\\\limits\{r=1}^n r = \\\\frac{(n+1)(n)}{2}$ $n$ here is the last value in the series to be added up. $a$ is…

https://youtube.googleapis.com/v/evQsOFQju08&source=uds Watching this video by VSauce recently, reminded me of a question that I had once asked myself: do we…

What is the value of 0/0? At first glance you might think that this actually has the value of 0, considering that if zero is divided by anything it is still…

While reading about the amazing NASA New Horizons Space Probe (which is due to arrive at Pluto in less than a year!) I came across a webpage tracking the…

We oftentimes hear about the suggestion that there is such a thing as \\”fate\\”, \\”destiny\\”, a \\”plan\\” for humankind. These words are tossed around in…

Thinking about computers, we know that one of these days they\\’re going to stop obeying Moore\\’s law, at least for silicon microprocessors. Moore\\’s law was…

One question we may ask ourselves often is, \\’is what I\\’m doing really worth doing?\\’. Think about the last time you might\\’ve thought this way, perhaps it…

Originally published at: https://lifephysics.blogspot.com/2014/02/about-time-what-we-about-master-of.html We all encounter it everyday. We think about it…

Originally published at: https://lifephysics.blogspot.com/2011/12/how-to-improve-your-life-with-p.html I’ve thought up a little system composed of ten words.…

Originally published at: https://lifephysics.blogspot.com/2011/10/arrogance-about-knowledge.html Of course, many of us in the world have often said: ‘Oh, I know…

Originally published at: https://lifephysics.blogspot.com/2011/10/world-upside-down.html We all know about the laws of physics and gravity and the like. We know…