Philomeme

Playing with AI tools keeps leading me to a core philosophical inquiry: what does it mean to create information, and how do we come to know ...

 

  In cloister'd hall by candle's glow so mild,  A monk doth scribe, in solitude, beguiled,  With quill in hand, he draweth lines so ...

 I wished for the saying to always be true,  That falsehoods would sprint, but truth would come through.  Yet learning has shown me a differ...

 

  In this fleeting moment, pure and clear, No past to haunt, no future near. Just the pulse of now, and life’s soft plow, I know of no aware...

Do you believe in liberty and free will?  Perhaps you think everything is pre-determined to a plan?  Maybe you think there is a mixture of ...

There are a lot of things we could know. Our brains are very small. Can we know it all? Can we even get close? Should we ever stop trying?...

Freedom is so basic to our culture we tend to take it for granted. When asked “Should we be free?”, citizens of western societies will co...

I caused my coffee to brew. I got the beans out, ground them, put filter in pot. I filled up the water, poured just the right am...

My hand is poised by the handle of the coffee cup. I desire the coffee. I desire to prove I have the free will to not take the coffee. ...

One way to discover more about our minds, is to change one's chemistry and observe the effects.  Here is a video from 1956 where a...