Bo Fowler's Blog, page 17

Detention

The philosophy students who failed to do their homework had to write 'I think therefore I am' a hundred times.

Words

Words are only words in the loosest sense of the word.

Eternal Life

And when the last ripples of energy upon the surface of Spacetime have faded and everything is still; our loves and wishes and deeds, encoded in the long dark unconscious memory of the cosmos, will still have been.

Schrödinger's Notebook

By reading this you collapse the fictional wave function into a single sentence. 

The Man

Each morning he put on a new brave face until the day all the faces made him so top heavy he fell head first into the road and was quite unable to get up. There he remained, putting a new brave face on the back of his head each morning and making self deprecating mumblings to those who passed by.

Retrospection

And behind us, at the appropriate chronological distances, lay the things we no longer believe, the junk of our personal history; in the long distance a giant overturned God like some broken statue and closer to home love and truth and despair.

Quantum Weirdness

How much weirder would the subatomic world be were it not weird?  

Human Nature

Even our flaws are not perfect.

Outline of a non-human ethic

Given that the Internet may be conscious, though not in a human sense, it may be immoral, though not in a human sense, to turn it off.

The Ontology of Events

To be followed for an hour by a solitary leaf on a windy autumn day might or might not signify something.