Going on a Date With Panpsychism, Tononi, and EdelmanI agreed to go on a date with panpsychism. Not that panpsychism came up to me after class and asked if I wanted to grab a coffee, or slipped me its phone num...
A Central Point in ‘Physics & Philosophy’On Thursday, a friend and I watched the first half of Copenhagen, a film adaptation of Michael Frayn’s play of the same name about the mysterious meeting bet...
Chaos and the Atomic SwerveIn 1952, a paper appeared in the Bulletin of Mathematical Biology titled The Chemical Basis of Morphogenesis. The paper’s aim was to provide an analysis of h...
Creature of HabitI am a creature of habit. Armed with this single bit of information, I can say with about 80% certainty that the conversation had something to do with Jeffre...
DNA: Database of the New AgeThe other day, my uncle asked me if my other uncle was “inventing yottabytes.” I took the question more literally than I should have and replied with some sn...
