20 Mar, 2025
Late April 2019, I published my blog Crime novels and the 7 Belief systems. I’m still quite proud of its accompanying diagram. Some novel writers were surprised by that diagram because my perspective was brand new to them. This blog is about fantasy novels, which is probably a (very) misleading term because nothing in those books in about unknown unknowns (my 2016...
11 Mar, 2025
Intro LO: The Nikkei Asia article (below) reminds me of one of the seven unresolved prophecies by American clairvoyant Edgar Cayce (1877-1945) about China: On one occasion, Cayce told a group of people that eventually China would become “the cradle of Christianity, as applied in the lives of men.” “Yea, it is far off as man counts time, but only a day in the heart...
26 Feb, 2025
Recently, I received an Aeon / Psyche email including an article that caught my immediate interest: Why are humans so good at cooperating? That question about cooperation had once been on my mind too, but I chose to ignore it. Actually, its second article contains a glimpse of an answer to the question above: Why large language models are mysterious – even to their...
12 Feb, 2025
About a month ago, I received a letter from my electricity provider announcing a scheduled interruption for a few hours. Last Monday, that interruption became an unscheduled disruption. After about 7.5 hours, my electricity returned. I’m slowly realising that I took my energy supplies (eg, electricity, gas, water) for granted. Most likely, my feeling of taking such...
30 Jan, 2025
A recent Quanta Magazine article mentions the “flatness problem”. That remark caught my immediate attention and the 2025 Quanta article reminds me of my 2022 blog: The Universe is flat? Back then, my view was: In my view, a flat Universe defies human logic. It’s like the (disproven) flat Earth hypothesis, and – to some extent – even feels like a...
15 Nov, 2024
Vorige week zei mijn vriendin tegen me dat ze aan het multitasken was. Ik zei tegen haar dat ik niet geloof in multi-tasking. Mijn inziens is vrijwel alles wat wij doen serieel, oftewel opeenvolgend (Wiki). Naar mijn mening is multitasking een idee-fixe; een “waanidee”. “De term multitasking komt oorspronkelijk uit de computerwereld. Daar zijn meestal meerdere...
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