I’ve been learning about the brain over the last few days and it has helped me re-realise the magnificent complexity of the human body and the ethical issues surrounding scientific progress. Resources have been piled into brain research over the past 100 years or so, yet we are still totally clueless about how most of the […]
Just a couple of links this week:
Ask PhilosophersThey have a "Question of the day" which is normally pretty interesting; there's a lot of good stuff in the archives too.
New Scientist - Last WordA similar thing, but more science based; interesting questions about trivial things.
Physical concepts are free creations of the human mind, and are not, however it may seem, uniquely determined by the external world. In our endeavor to understand reality we are somewhat like a man trying to understand the mechanism of a closed watch. He sees the face and the moving hands, even hears its ticking, […]
I think it is easy to forget what memories, reality, science and “fact” really are. Just because you can remember something doesn’t mean it’s true, just because experimental theory points to something doesn’t mean it’s true. There is no such thing as absolute certainty, almost any hypothesis is ultimately as viable as any other. I […]
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4647142.stm
Makes me wonder…
A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. ~ Rabindranath Tagore
Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding. ~ Ambrose Bierce
“Logic is a careful, serious, systematic method of coming to the wrong conclusion with absolute confidence.” ~ Unknown
Logic restricts your reality, if […]