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Why Shouldn’t We All Get Along (with the aliens)?
Read more: Why Shouldn’t We All Get Along (with the aliens)?If you read some of the posts here you might have guessed that I try to be a rational, skeptical, scientifically minded individual. Somebody who has never been to college but realized he probably should have been. This ‘rational’ streak of my life isn’t very old, though. Up until about ten years ago I was into paranormal-UFO-alien-conspiracy stuff – big time. I didn’t exactly know what I was believing. Everything, I guess. Of course that was also the time when the internet started…
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Rebooting Reality, part 1
Read more: Rebooting Reality, part 1I have often wondered what would happen if we could start over with something. For example language. Let’s say we wind back time to the beginning of the development of language – assuming, for the moment, there is such a thing as a starting point. If we let it run again from that moment how would it develop? Would it develop pretty much along the same lines? Totally different? Now, take something like Mathematics. Push the RESET button. Do we expect the exact…
