Mind over Matter

Friday, March 12th, 2010

Mind and matter is a problem in philsophy — how does a non-material mind make changes to the material world around us? Of course, it is a problem only in philsophy. We all know how to move about and do physical stuff, no mystery there. Still…

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Love of Wisdom

Monday, January 25th, 2010

What is the purpose of philosophy? And why are philosophers paupers?

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Midlife Crisis

Monday, November 23rd, 2009

On what is important in life. And what is not.

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Ghost of Gravity

Tuesday, November 17th, 2009

Some beliefs are superstitions, while some others are scientific theories. What exactly is the difference between them? Let’s listen to what Pirsig has to say about it.

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Only a Matter of Time

Saturday, October 10th, 2009

Here is an unreal look at the what and why of time. Why do we have a sense of time when none of our five senses can sense it?

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Half a Bucket of Water

Friday, October 2nd, 2009

When philosophers look at anything, it becomes a bit technical. Their technical analysis may sound boring and irrelevant. Here is an attempt to tilt things in their favor.

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If Time Died Now, I Would Be Happy

Tuesday, September 29th, 2009

On my strange and funny dreams.

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On Rationality and Delusions

Friday, September 25th, 2009

What do we mean by rationality? Why do we think it is a good thing to be rational?

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Blind-Sight

Saturday, August 22nd, 2009

Blind-sight is an interesting neurological syndrome, and a philosophical conundrum. It shows how we may have senses that we are not consciously aware of. If there are senses that we can be unaware of, how sure can we be of the “sensed”? Or of our “delusions”?

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A Plausible God

Monday, August 17th, 2009

Here is a concept of God that doesn’t violate the known principles of science, and should therefore be consistent with the so-called scientific worldview. Mind you, plausibility of the concept says nothing about its veracity; but it may say something about it being a delusion.

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The God Delusion

Thursday, August 13th, 2009

An unreal review of the book The God Delusion. [...]The book gave me a strange feeling of dissatisfaction. You see, you may believe in God. Or you may not believe that there is a God. Or you may actively believe that there is no God. I fall in this the last category. But I still know that it is only my belief, and that thought fills me with a humility that I feel Dawkins lacks.[...]

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Helen Keller

Sunday, August 9th, 2009

The story of Helen Keller is the story of the dark reality that traps you in the absence of your senses. It is also an illustration of the role of language in breaking out of that darkness.

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What is the Word?

Wednesday, August 5th, 2009

In this post, I get into the risky business of interpreting scripture. Why is it that we do not appreciate others interpreting our beliefs? Well, that is fodder for another post.

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Change the Facts

Monday, February 23rd, 2009

Of truth and beauty — in physics and philosophy

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Global Warming and the Flu

Thursday, February 19th, 2009

An unreal look at global warming. Are we a virus on the earth? And is the global warming a bout of fever? Published in the Singaporean newspaper, Today, on 1 Dec 2008.

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Of Dreams and Memories

Wednesday, February 4th, 2009

What does it mean to say that something happened if you cannot remember it?

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The Razor’s Edge by W Somerset Maugham

Monday, January 19th, 2009

This brief look at possibly the best book I have ever read is perhaps my last post in the book review series. At least for a short while, as I’m beginning to find it a bit hard to keep up with all the demands on my time now, what with my next book efforts and everything. Besides, the books have already said it all better, haven’t they?

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Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

Monday, December 29th, 2008

I’m embarrassed to admit it, but I did not realize that Catch-22 was caricature, the first time I read it. I thought caricatures are visual. I was wrong, of course. Here is an unreal review of this masterpiece that needs to be more widely read.

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The Unreal Universe – Reviewed

Sunday, December 7th, 2008

This post is a collection of reviews of my first book The Unreal Universe. As I’m beginning to work on my second book (Principles of Quantitative Development, commissioned by Wiley-Finance), I felt that these thoughts on my first book might be of interest to some of you.

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Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse

Saturday, October 18th, 2008

Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse, reviewed here more from a philosophical rather than a literary perspective.

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