10^500 ways to configure the universe.
What’s the fuss anyway?
Do we need to be morally accountable for our actions for the society and the judicial system to function?
Repent! The singularity is near (or maybe not)
Comments on the June 2008 issue of IEEE Spectrum about the SIngularity.
Wikipedia on free will
Deconstruction of the statement: “The question of free will is whether, and in what sense, rational agents exercise control over their actions and decisions.”
Summer pasture – at last!
Happiness for Neos Bucefalos (in front) and Brim Time is a summer pasture with fresh grass and lots of space for a gallop of joy!
More on free will
Removing randomness from quantum mechanics.
Free will revisited
There is no free will. It cannot even be defined.
Pleasure and pain
Maybe the original sin really was to gain consciousness (“your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil”, Genesis 3:5) which is why humans are doomed to “in pain… bring forth children”.
Strange loops
Some extrapolations of Douglas Hofstadter’s book I am a strange loop.
A tribute to open source software
A technical experiment – the origin of this blog.