Through a Glass Darkly

Some physicists and philosophers believe that the material world we observe with our senses is emergent. If matter is not fundamental to a universe, the materialist model we currently use ...
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How’d I Get Better?

My current understanding is that illness is tied to my body's understanding of light and time. Diseases of the central nervous system may ultimately be found to involve dysfunction in ...
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Cat Stevens & Derivatives

“Mine is the sunlightMine is the morningBorn of the one lightEden saw plain.Praise with elationPraise every morningGod’s recreationOf the new day.” If light condenses to form matter that then accelerates ...
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Envisioning Light’s Movement

Here’s a visual that might help us see light’s movement in a new way—though it’s from a funny source. In this video, from our perspective, we’re able to see light’s ...
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Radical Empathy

I love Jonathan Haidt’s TED talk because it allowed me to feel something I had previously understood intellectually. There are reasons—good reasons—why people hold beliefs that are dramatically different from ...
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Only When Light Is Emergent Does It Have Speed

The central nugget of these ideas is that what we perceive as light is not light proper (light as light or light qua light). What we perceive as light exists ...
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