In seeking answers to questions on a universal scale, questions arise concerning our place as intelligent life. A key question in that category is one of companionship: in this incomparably vast universe, are we as humans alone? Are we the only living, advanced civilization, or are there other lives among the stars, unreachable? Answers toContinue reading “to play God or gardener”
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a most beautiful sequence
Anyone who has been on a college campus, especially those of large, public universities like my own, have a general idea of the vast diversity of people one can encounter. Students and faculty from every walk of life stroll the quads and concourses of campus, each with their own stories, backgrounds, dreams and aspirations. Campuses,Continue reading “a most beautiful sequence”
social service-utility theory
Social life is hard to quantify in any meaningful way; by nature, social situations defy quantification in favor of emotion-based qualification. For people trying to gain a perspective of or kickstart their social and mental growth, quantification may make the complexity of social life easier to understand. In an attempt to quantify certain approaches toContinue reading “social service-utility theory”
the two piles
If somebody boils away all the complexities of knowledge and its accruement over the millennia, and the places from which this knowledge was identified and cultivated, one can arrive at a very basic conclusion concerning the topic of knowledge. I have tentatively titled this the Two Piles Theory, and it states the following: At theContinue reading “the two piles”
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