The unexamined life is not worth living.Plato: Socrates' Apology Just to be different, I thought that I would wait until my second entry to discuss why I decided to start a blog. The simple reason is that I spend a lot of time thinking and I want to share some of...

Freight train, freight train, run so fastFreight train, freight train, run so fastPlease don't tell what train I'm onThey won't know what route I'm going                                  Elizabeth Cotten: Freight Train I was lucky enough to hear Elizabeth Cotten sing...

There is no past or future,only the present.And time doesn't exist the way we think it does.-Kirk Sutherland (paraphrase): Coronation Street In an interesting set of coincidences, as I have been working on this month's entry, the above quote was uttered on my...

Marty! You've gotta come back with me!...Back to the future.'Doc' Emmett Brown: Back to the Future Part II For as long as I can remember I have been curious about time. According to Einstein and others, it is another dimension like the three dimensions of length,...

'Ex nihilo nihil fit'-Parmenides of Elea My topic for this month is panpsychism. This is the concept that the mind or some corresponding entity is a universal aspect of reality, not just of humans and certain animals. This was the topic of my dissertation for my BA...