A scratchpad for exploring favorite themes: Borges, time, randomness, consciousness, etc.
We can look around and observe that, for lack of a better term, lower beings (plants, animals) have varyingly complex conceptions of the…
A memorable passage from Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “Wakefield”: ...
I’ve come to think of almost everything as explainable by some sort of feedback loop. ...
Loss has nothing to do with the past and everything to do with the future. You can’t lose what has already happened; the past is immutable…
I think of this passage almost every time I speculate about the future...
Short-story idea: A vast, almost magically advanced technology company maintains an in-house experimental wing, like Google X or Xerox PARC…
An absolutely lovely passage out of Edward Abbey’s Desert Solitaire…
What’s the ontological status of the past? Is it less real than the present because it no longer exists? Or more real because, in a universe…
Introverts and extroverts are interested in the same thing: humanity. Extroverts want to discover other instances of it; introverts want to…
Suppose the dead can return to the world and be anyone from any era: inhabit the life of a living person, think what they think, feel what…