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31 12, 2016

What’s real, really?

By |2021-02-28T13:31:11-05:00December 31st, 2016|Categories: Blog, Perpectives|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , |0 Comments

At dinner the other day, I was talking with a good friend about a variety of subjects from politics to science. I brought up the idea that science has a story-telling aspect about it and I wanted to show that by example in my book. Alaskan Eskimo pipes such as this one were [...]

24 10, 2016

Numbers: Abstractions or Reality?

By |2021-02-28T13:33:10-05:00October 24th, 2016|Categories: Blog, Perpectives|Tags: , , , , , , , |0 Comments

This butterfly on display at the botanical gardens of Asheville, N.C. is constructed out of 60,549 Lego pieces. Here’s irony worthy of thought: there’s truth in numbers. Really? Maybe. We consider numbers objective – 8 is 8, not 7 or 9 – an expression of reality, a substitute for making our relative [...]

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