Life The Mathematics of Altruism Have you ever wondered why kindness exists? In a natural world of fang and claw, predator and prey, and survival of the fittest - where does kindness come from? Is it something to do with Game Theory? Strength in numbers? Or is there more to it than that? Artificial General
Musing Music of the Spheres I've been listening a lot to that hum-hiss-whistle that always seems to be there in the background of my experiencing-self. I assume this is the thing called tinnitus. In my day-dreams, I wonder if it is something more than an auditory hallucination. Weirdly, I can sense both quiet sounds and
Life The Good, The Bad and The Ugly... I have a weird idea - it seems strangely simple, is it true? I don't know... but I find it an interesting mind-tool when thinking about people, and even animals. I saw a documentary on TV once - about an experiment that started years ago - and is still ongoing
Musing Dark Matters... If the dark matter shells around baryonic galaxies contain dark-matter people, are we just the ghostly whisps of energy in their galactic wood-burners? If one day we were to tickle them with dark-matter fission, would a tug on a nearby cosmic string snuff out our sun?
