There are many different kinds of radioactive waste and each has its own half-life so, just to be on the safe side and to simplify matters, I base my calculations…
Continue ReadingBecause of recent improvements in the accuracy of theoretical predictions based on large scale ab initio quantum mechanical calculations, meaningful comparisons between theoretical and experimental findings have become possible.
Continue ReadingSome years ago, I wrote a book called the Emperor’s New Mind and that book was describing a point of view I had about consciousness and why it was not…
Continue ReadingThe brain’s calculations do not require our conscious effort, only our attention and our openness to let the information through. Although the brain absorbs universes of information, little is admitted…
Continue ReadingIt is very distressing that anyone would look at these matters from a political viewpoint. Core beliefs about when life begins and ends are far too important for any such…
Continue ReadingLife it is not just a series of calculations and a sum total of statistics, it’s about experience, it’s about participation, it is something more complex and more interesting than…
Continue ReadingIt does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.
Continue ReadingArab leaders worry more about making money from the profits they get from oil and gas that they turn the other way when Lebanon is being destroyed right next to…
Continue ReadingWe have to choose between a global market driven only by calculations of short-term profit, and one which has a human face.
Continue ReadingAs soon, however, as capitalist competition has definitively established the equal rate of profit, that rate becomes the starting point for the calculations of the capitalists in the investment of…
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