Reductio ad Absurdum (part 3) Reality is an illusion. Yea, this idea has been around for ages. Whether you are reading philosophy and find Plato’s allegory of the cave intriguing or you buy into the concept of Maya in various Indian religions, you can find this sort of thing alluded to here and there, time [...]
Reductio ad Absurdum part 2. Known for a couple hundred years, the double slit experiment clearly demonstrates that we, as middle size creatures (with the subatomic on one side of the scale and stars on the other) evolved not to understand reality as it is, but to survive in our environment by perceiving reality [...]
Reductio ad absurdum (Part 1) I first heard of Zeno’s paradox a little over a decade ago and it has always fascinated me. The scene is Achilles racing a tortoise, who has a head start. In order for Achilles to reach the tortoise he must first run to where the tortoise started, but by [...]