Hello guys. I was bored and going through old documents and found this little gem. My friend and countryman JPLiem wrote this plot for a graphic art piece he never completed, and allowed me to write a prose version of it. I finished it and then never did anything with it. So now I'm posting it here. I don't think he would mind. Enjoy ( Read more... )

Okay, I'm sure someone somewhere has argued something similar to this before. I'm not too familiar with the history of the Cartesians. But I've been reading a lot of Philosophy of Mind lately and I had this idea I wanted to try out. Here goes ( Read more... )

"Where'd the cheese go?"

So, at about 4a, I wake up. Why do I wake up? Because I heard a noise that I know was someone knocking on the door.

What the fuck? Why is someone knocking on the door?

I listen for a few minutes to determine if it was the cat playing with something downstairs and making a noise that sounded like someone knocking on the door ( Read more... )

Alas Babylon.

So, yesterday was a really lame day at work. It was Saturday, the busiest day of the week, so it's all in that context.

The first thing I learn when I get to work is that the safe won't open. The safe with all the fucking money in it! Eventually I find out that it wouldn't open the night before also, so two of the cash drawers weren't able to be ( Read more... )

Okay, so in a probably vain effort to make my Physics and Philosophy background not be a complete waste of time, I've decided to make myself take classes that I've invented myself. Umm, I'm sure that sounds weird. Lindsey assures me that it is. But I'm doing it anyway. I need an academic outlet, and D&D is not enough (though that's going awesomely ( Read more... )

When the dragons grow too mighty ( Read more... )

In a seminal article (Gettier, 1963), Edmund Gettier posed counterexamples to the contemporary analysis of knowledge as justified true belief (JTB). These counterexamples, and the many others invented by other philosophers since, all consist of instances in which someone comes to hold a belief that is true, and that person is completely justified ( Read more... )

Oh, wow.

Umm, please check out this complete nerdery.

http://www.nealstephenson.com/anathem/music.htm

Just wow.