Split brain

I've been listening to Peace on Earth, by Stanislaw Lem and the character has had his right and left brain split. It's quite interesting so far, and deals with a lot of philosophical questions like 'is it me inside my head, if i don't know what it's thinking?' So far the plot seems to be …

Old music

Been listening to some old songs I haven't heard in a while and it's strange how much music draws you back into the past. What you were doing when listening to the music the first time, with supreme clarity sometimes, can come flooding right back with just a few notes...

Time stopping powers

Very often, unusually often probably, I wish I could stop time and just sit and read or write all day. Now I wonder why our world is such that I need to imagine fantastic powers for myself, just in order to read all day... In the future, unless things change, even when we have robots …

Birds will inherit the world

After humans are extinct, birds will be the next to conquer the world with their minds. We've already seen that ravens and crows can understand death, solve complex puzzles, and remember human faces--now it seems they can plan for the future at least as well as a human child. What would a world ruled by …

A modern afterlife

Several scientists in recent news articles have been stating that they think we live in a computer simulation. They think the odds of this are very high. What question that leaves unanswered, is whether we are a creation of whoever wrote the simulation, or if we are self inserts in the simulation. In other words, …