Ageless in Spirit: Discussions and interests for our times

 12/31/2023      Happy New Year. Life and change is like the uncertainty principle of quantum physics. When you are aware of change you know your living and when you are aware of change time is suspended. When your experiencing time, change and your life experiences are less certain since you've suspended your awareness of life and change for those moments of reflection on time. In human affairs absent hypothesis testing using the scientific method all we know is change and life. Choice then is awareness of change, life, and our certainty of free will. But if life and change suspends time, choice also is in the philosophical mind bending uncertainty.     The scientific method involves testing your hypothesis by gathering observations that can be verified by other independent observers and see if the data and hypothesis flow and support each other. I'm reminded of the hypothesis of phlogiston. " The  phlogiston theory  is a  superseded scientific theory  that postulated th

December 14, 2023      I've been studying a series of articles, stories of Jorg Borg, and a fascinating book The Rigor of Angels by William Egginton about science, knowledge and reasoning as described by Kant, Heisenberg, Einstein, and other scientists. My forays into these issues and thinkers included Robert Sapolsky, a brilliant neuroscientists whose book Behave I reviewed in a previous post (February 26, 2021) and who has some interest in the subject of free will. I tried out explaining some of my confused understanding to others, delved further into Kant's antinomies, and tried some fiction of Jorg Borg. To escape from these pursuits I just finished a part chase, many world, science fiction novel that was a delight to read (Infinity Gate by M. R. Carey) which incorporates the many worlds hypothesis I will describe later in this blog.      Kant defines an antimony "is the consequence of a finite entity trying and failing to grasp the infinite" https://una