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Last week I met Josh Tenenbaum again, a brilliant AI researcher at MIT.  We've only met four times, but at each encounter there was a mutual recognition of a deep resonance in our outlook...

Thinking places a central role in our lives, and we think in terms of stories, whether as fiction or nonfiction.  Can we go beyond stories, or is our sense of self part of...

We never see the world 'as it is'.  We always see the world through the lens of the stories we tell ourselves about the world, and about ourselves.  And the self we think we are is part...

What would it be like, if all forms of human knowledge would be given a chance to be heard, in a respectful and serious way?  What would it take, to allow the full diversity of ways of knowing to come to the...

The world appears in our mind, and it makes sense to assume that our mind is inherently connected to our body which is part of the world.  When we ask "what contains what?" a sensible answer is:...

In physics, whenever we confront a new problem, we ask ourselves the question of time scales.  Typically, different processes operate at quite different time scales, but  occasionally...

Steam engines use energy to power motion, and computers use energy to power calculations.  The invention of steam engines gave rise to the theory of thermodynamics, where entropy growth...

Last week, I pointed out how we are born in the present, live in the present and will die in the present.  Even though we experience our own virtual reality creation, in the form of our mental constructs...

Last week I wrote about language weaving a virtual reality for us, through the use of concepts that tend to dress up all that  we experience.  Naked reality remains largely hidden from us, except perhaps for a split...

The origin of language, a few hundred thousand years ago, was also the origin of virtual...