A Theory of Everything
A Theory of Everything When I was at school, it all seemed so simple. The physical world, at the smallest level, was made up [...]
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02, 2026
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08, 2025
The Company
The Company There are two usages that dominate the word ‘Company’, one very familiar, and the other somewhat more limited. That second usage is [...]
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07, 2025
Gods and Robots
DD82 - Gods and Robots It is hard not to be fascinated by robots, machines that are capable of carrying out complex actions automatically, [...]
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07, 2025
Dancing Cockatoos
DD60 - Dancing Cockatoos and the Dead Man Test Sometimes I read something that comes to me from ‘out of left field’. It’s an [...]
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06, 2025
Why Pain is Necessary
Antonio Damasio Tells Us Why Pain Is Necessary I’ve broken my usual rule, and copied this extract from an article with the same name [...]
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06, 2025
Why Pain is Necessary
Antonio Damasio Tells Us Why Pain Is Necessary I’ve broken my usual rule, and copied this extract from an article with the same name [...]
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05, 2025
Left, Right, and Wrong
Like many people, I find books about science and mathematics, and the existence of logical puzzles fascinating. Among the many writers who managed to [...]
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04, 2025
Histories of Time
Histories of Time There are two ways we tend to think about time. One has to do with the way we cut up time, [...]
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11, 2024
Descarte’s Error
Descartes’ Error I can’t remember why, back in 1995, I bought a copy of Antonio Damasio’s book, Descartes’ Error. Was it the cover, with [...]
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08, 2024
Paradigm Change
Paradigm Change I was beginning my second year at university when I first read Thomas Kuhn’s book, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. I was [...]
