The Multiverse According to Ben

I remember reading, years ago, the excellent book "The Psychology of Mathematical Invention" by the mathematician Jacques Hadamard...

I saw this quote in a friend's email signature... "What a strange machine man is! You fill him with bread, wine, fish, and radishes...

My son Zebulon (age 13) recently had to write a brief essay for school on "My Favorite Place," as part of a national essay competi...

In one of those pleasant synchronicities, a couple days ago PJ Manney started a conversation with me about music and the scientific mind, at...

Last night, at the offices of the Electric Sheep Company (a company devoted to creating "virtual Real Estate" in multi-participant...

This is just a quick follow-up to the prior post on "Being a Force of Nature" ... Thinking over the issues I wrote about in that p...

Reading the book Presence: An Exploration of Profound Change in People, Organizations, and Society by Peter M. Senge, C. Otto Scharmer, Jose...

Wow, it's been a long time since I've blogged on here -- apparently I haven't been in a bloggy mood. It's been a busy year ....

This blog entry arises from an email I sent to the SL4 email list, in response to a suggestion by Marc Geddes that perhaps the universe can ...

This blog entry briefly describes a long-term conceptual research project I have in mind, and have been thinking about for a while, which is...

I spent the day giving a talk about bioinformatics to some smart medical researchers and then meeting with them discussing their research an...

Hi all, I have launched a second blog, which is called Post-Interesting www.post-interesting.com and I have invited a number of my friends t...

This post is a response to Bob McCue's comments to my earlier blog entry on "Objective and Subjective Reality". Scroll down af...

This post is inspired by a study of the “delayed choice quantum eraser” experiment described e.g. at http://www.bottomlayer.com/bottom/kim-s...

Another highly nerdy and technical blog entry… I've been working on the last couple chapters of my long-due philosophy-of-mind book ...

I posted a blog a while ago whining about the annoyingness of the style of writing and thinking most common in academia today. This is anoth...

I recently co-founded a group called the DC Future Salon that meets once a month in Bethesda, Maryland, to discuss futuris...

Well, I started writing a followup to my previous blog entry on subjective/objective reality, dealing with issues relating to consciousness ...

This post is a purely intellectual one -- playing at the border between "blog entry" and "brief philosophical essay".......

I was a professor for 8 years, so I'm no stranger to the weird ways of academia. But I've been pretty much away from that universe f...