70 Years Old. WTF!

Human communication is a kind of miracle. Think about it. I have an idea in my mind. In spoken communication, I make a bunch of noises tha...

David Deutsch gives definitions of knowledge and information that I like. Knowledge is a kind of information. Here’s my gloss on his defin...

David Deutsch gives definitions of knowledge and information that I like. He’s developed a mathematically representable theory, called Con...

Everything in consciousness must be an illusion. If that’s true (and I think it must be), then what is real? In “Waking Up,” Sam Harris s...

Here’s a paradox. Consciousness is the only thing of which we can be certain. Yet, everything that appears in consciousness is an illusion...

Today realized that I have been making a mistake by trying to solve problems by developing self-discipline. What was I thinking? I wrote ...

Tomorrow is my birthday, assuming that I publish this today–and I predict that I will. I spent the morning catching up with my friend Elsa....