I am a thinking person. Small details excite me. Theoretical tools are instruments of power, harnessable at any moment. This is interesting, or it is it. The mind, my mind, can draw some reasonable line of thought, and whatever my mind drew up has some true implication on the world. How absolutely riveting. My eyes…

Often I think about that Mary Oliver poem which reads You do not have to be good.You do not have to walk on your kneesfor a hundred miles through the desert repenting.You only have to let the soft animal of your bodylove what it loves.Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.Meanwhile…

What faculties allow distinction? Descartes says if 2 + 2 = 4, then not only does 3 + 1 = 4, but these facts imply one another. But to say is to say we call “one”, “two”, and so on –– but who is to say we draw the line at the line? Is the…

What seems remarkable about quantum mechanics is that it successfully treats a physical system with the abstract mathematical architecture of linear algebra, situating all the information we can get about this physical system not in ‘physical’ space (x,y,z coordinates) but in a sometimes infinite-dimensional Hilbert space––the brainchild of David Hilbert. This is shocking prima facie:…

A quantum system does not have a predetermined outcome to a given measurement, but that its outcomes emerge and are created directly as a result of the measurement process.’ V. Vedral, Musings on Quantum Mechanics How are we to know the nature of outcomes — sense or empirical data, the stuff of the world —…

An image impressed upon the eye provides the basis upon which forms can be related. Units and relations. Discrete structures and their communications. How might image inform the sightless? What sense? What is concept X when Y sense is not available? We conceive of line because line seems to be the road, edge of table,…