Sunday 17 December 2017

Money



Nothing is impossible - just very expensive.

Sunday 10 December 2017

Fictions


The only things that make us what we are are our thoughts which we have made up.

Sunday 3 December 2017

Sunday 19 November 2017

Mathematics


It seems that reality is written in numbers.

Sunday 12 November 2017

Anthropomorphism


The 
real reason 
we do not fine 
trees for littering 
leaves 
is 
that
we 
know 
they 
will 
                never          pay
                                       

Sunday 5 November 2017

Astronomy


Every galaxy we have observed in our telescopes is forever changing, becoming - spinning into something else.

Tuesday 24 October 2017

The Nature of so called Progress


Madness has its evolutionary advantage for only the mad may do the impossible.

Sunday 15 October 2017

Sunday 8 October 2017

The student


The student both passed and failed his quantum mechanics exam.

Sunday 1 October 2017

Our Prejudices


Many, perhaps most, of our prejudices and untruths are so deeply held they are unconscious, undetectable to us, unknown to us, beneath our understanding and yet the cause, the foundation, of that understanding. 

Sunday 24 September 2017

The Future


Let us not talk of progress (only children believe in such a thing) instead let us talk of change, of evolution, of possibility.

Sunday 17 September 2017

Fun Fact


Our sense of right and wrong has absolutely nothing to do with us.

Sunday 10 September 2017

Untitled


Which came first the chicken or the egg? 

Essentialist thinking.

Wednesday 30 August 2017

Monday 21 August 2017

Contact


It may be necessary for us to become the alien we have been searching for.

Tuesday 15 August 2017

Untitled


Perhaps all planets are traps not just of gravity but of ways of thinking as well.

Friday 28 July 2017

The Lesson


Children should be taught at nine to believe in a God without question than at twelve they should be shown the utter absurdity of such an idea.

Sunday 30 April 2017

The question


The question is not whether we will regard the machines of the future as conscious or not, nor is the question whether the machines of the future will in fact be conscious or not, the question is whether the machines of the future will regard themselves as conscious or not.

Monday 24 April 2017

The Second Chance


And God said onto Adam; "eat from the forbidden Tree of Knowledge again and ye shall be cast out from the garden of Eden."

Saturday 15 April 2017

The Clue


Looking upwards one day I thought I glimpsed the faint outline of a hyper dimensional object, a hole in the fabric of our spacetime, a singularity, a mighty glitch in the program...

When in fact it was merely a cloud seen out of the corner of my eye.

Sunday 2 April 2017

The Event


Something took place, exactly when or where has yet to be established, what it means we don't know...

Tuesday 21 March 2017

Pity


We feel sorrow for the child brought up by wolves in great forests when perhaps we should feel more sorrow for ourselves.

The Aesthetic Threat


The birth of a mutant so beautiful they render everything other then themselves meaningless.

Monday 13 March 2017

Work in Progress


A poem only lives while it is being written; the same is true for us.

Sunday 5 March 2017

Avoidance Strategies


The great man can spend so much of his time avoiding the stupid man that the great man can himself appear stupid. 

Thus do great men sometimes mistake each other for idiots.

Sunday 26 February 2017

The Philosopher


"I could if I so wished, with subtle and long winded arguments, prove the existence of the external world, but I have more pressing matters to attend to."

Tuesday 14 February 2017

The Human Condition


Anyone who has been forced to use a busy Starbucks toilet knows that man is essentially animal in nature.

Sunday 5 February 2017

Work in Progress


God is one of my favourite  fictional characters and I'm one of his.

Sunday 15 January 2017

Evolution


Hyper-intelligence may not have been evolutionarily advantageous; the caveman who grasps the fundamental nature of consciousness but is eaten by a Sabre-tooth tiger shortly thereafter does not pass on his hyper-intelligence.

Sunday 8 January 2017

Euthanasia


Please do not kill my dreams; they are perfectly capable of dying on their own.


Monday 2 January 2017

An ideal world


To have two problems is better than having just one: they prevent you fixating. 

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