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I Doubted Everything. One Thing Refused to Leave
I came to this through equations, not incense. Somewhere between Plato and Bohr I hit a wall that our best physics still quietly steps around, and it would not move.
How a physics-and-math skeptic followed science all the way to nonduality, and what physics and philosophy of science really say about reality.
I came to this through equations, not incense. Somewhere between Plato and Bohr I hit a wall that our best physics still quietly steps around, and it would not move.
Look closely at a chair, an electron, an empire. Heraclitus spotted it 2,500 years ago and a 20th-century inventor said it about himself. Once you see it, nothing in the room is sitting still.
In 2003 a philosopher made a careful case that we might be living inside a computer. Physics says every bit of computation has a price. Following the bill leads somewhere most simulation debates never go.