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FFXCIX

I saw a piece in the tech news this week that I couldn't pass up mentioning. I've had a bit of a love/hate relationship with video games. I've played them since I was a kid, and getting my Amiga 500+ for Christmas one year was one of the defining …

in misc · Thu 13 April 2017

Multiplicity

Continuing this series of posts examining identity fluidity, I was chatting with Jacob Isler, who runs a YouTube channel devoted to tulpamancy (he's also a psychology undergrad). I was interested in his experiences of multiplicity (or plurality) of consciousness. Anyway, Jacob kinda criticised my model, so I thought I would …

in self · Sat 01 April 2017

Identity-Fluid

Let's return to a topic I've been pondering quite a lot recently. So in some of the previous posts, I have been examining what it is to be a human being. Let us refer back to a diagram I drew for one of those earlier posts. Here consciousness sits like …

in self · Thu 30 March 2017

Apophenia

So this post has been stimulated partly by a podcast chat about apophenia, and partly by the updated blog post, Dots Don't Make The Man. (It's also based on some writing that didn't make it into my final PhD thesis, which is why it has references and footnotes 😱.) Apophenia is …

in psychology · Sat 25 March 2017

Dots Don't Make the Man

(So this is an old post that was first published in 2006 that I've updated. Gone is the old graphic, to be replaced with another CSS and html animation. Spiffy.)

Look at this animation and think about it. What are you looking at and what do you 'see'? Aren't they …

in psychology · Sat 25 March 2017

Who is an Existential Being?

So during an (as yet unpublished) episode of The Existential Files, we got into a debate about who (or what) is an existential being? I thought I would clarify my thinking. I rule out categorically any non-human on this planet. I love my cat Ziggy, but I don't believe he …

in existential · Sat 18 March 2017

Portable Pointlessness

Been a bit busy this last month, but the podcast has been providing a good bit of content. Someone asked me if I had a copy of my take home essays in a more portable format. Well I'm always up for a technical challenge, so I decided to create a …

in life-universe-everything · Sat 18 March 2017

Quoz

Let's look at something different, and hopefully a little amusing. Consider Charles Mackay's book, Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds. It may well have been published over 150 years ago, but it is a wonderful illustration of how very much like our modern day, the past …

in history · Mon 13 February 2017

Infinite-Past-Caring

[Aside: Wow, look at this. A front page full of new posts. Who would have thunk it?]

We are a group of scientists and we have invented a time machine. Well at this stage it's more of a time probe, but if this model works we're hoping to scale it …

in mathematics · Sun 12 February 2017

A Horse Splashes

Once upon a time on this blog, I used to have an animation of a man falling. Well here it is updated with modern browser technology. See I'm not just a pretty face. The falling man signifies that feeling we get in the middle of angst. The drop in the …

in existential · Thu 09 February 2017

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