Railway musings south of Warsaw

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Thursday, 8 March 2018

Right and wrong in science and philosophy

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Lent 2018: Day 22 “If  panpsychism is real, then life can have started with some form of consciousness that must have evolved very m...
Wednesday, 7 March 2018

Free will and quantum mechanics

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Lent 2018, Day 22 Stuart A. Kauffman's Humanity in a Creative Universe spans three broad areas of learning - physics, biology and ph...
Tuesday, 6 March 2018

That was the winter that was

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A very cold week for end-Feb/early March has ended with a return to plus zero temperatures, grey clouds and sleet. Time to look back over ...
Monday, 5 March 2018

Consciousness and its Role in the War between Science and Religion

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Lent 2018: Day 20 Over the weekend, I strayed across an online discussion between scientists and religious zealots (fundamentalist Christ...
Thursday, 1 March 2018

Linking subatomic physics to consciousness, via biology and the brain

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Lent 2018: Day 16 My grasp of quantum mechanics is sketchy, but the basic notions of uncertainty and superposition  - defined only at the...
Wednesday, 28 February 2018

The Mysteries of Quantum Mechanics

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Lent 2018: Day 15 Two weeks gone, no meat, no alcohol, lots of exercise (managed nine chin-ups to the bar yesterday morning). I'm als...
Sunday, 25 February 2018

Mid-winter in late Feb

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Work and duties have slowed down my Lenten reading and writing. The paces, however, keep on keeping on (average of over 12,000 this week). T...
Thursday, 22 February 2018

Of Consciousness and Will within the Universe

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Lent 2018: Day Nine Stuart A. Kauffman throws us a philosophical challenge. "Are We Zombies with, at Best, Witnessing Minds?" T...