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Entries from July 2008

The Way of Mind - A Poem

July 23rd, 2008 · No Comments

There was a time of blood, and war,
of thick brow and clenched jaw,
snarling faces baring sharp teeth.
It is the way of ape.
This way is trodden yet, but
when we happen upon it,
we do not dwell but hasten our pace.
There was a time of loyalty and honour,
dependable men and pompous ceremonies;
solemn faces nodding to the lord.
It is [...]

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Tags: philosophy · poetry

Site Redesign

July 18th, 2008 · 2 Comments

Last Friday I decided I need to give my site a new theme - doing that in Wordpress usually takes one minute - copying the theme to your webhost directory and activating it. I hadn’t planned to do more.
What followed was one week consisting of a flurry of work (and it’s my week off actually [...]

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Tags: general

The End of Copenhagen

July 4th, 2008 · No Comments

Since its inception, the Copenhagen interpretation of Quantum Mechanics has been used to justify mysterianism, subjectivism, postmodernism, relativism, the preferred status of consciousness and human beings in the universe, a realm of intuition outside of logic and science, and other intellectual errors too many to number. It seems that people who reject reason and science [...]

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Tags: philosophy of science · physics