Last night I watched the movie Fight Club, which is based on a book by Chuck Palahniuk. I posted previously about having put Chuck Palahniuk on my reading list for a variety of reasons, but I thought he was pretty far down the list; it’s hard to imagine someone like me who loved Jane [...]
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What Would You Wish You Had Done Before You Died?
Posted in Integrity, Politics & Government, Science & Spirituality on June 20, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Medical Research – Perspectives from Academia and Industry
Posted in Health Care, Politics & Government, Science & Spirituality on April 25, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Updated 01 May 2009 My day job is managing clinical research in the biotechnology industry, and my cousin Mark is a microbiology professor. I think it’s safe to say that we both care about our contributions to science, but we haven’t taken the chance to discuss our different views on medical research around the buffet [...]
Premonitions and Global Consciousness
Posted in Science & Spirituality on March 28, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I don’t know what to say about Nostradamus or the Farmer’s Almanac, but I think there is too much evidence to dismiss that some people – maybe all people – have some consciousness of events that are likely to happen. It’s really not that much of a stretch to believe. Economists and meteorologists and other [...]
The Biological Basis of Indecision ?
Posted in Science & Spirituality on March 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Each experience a person has creates or enforces a pathway in the brain that influences reactions to related events. If artificial intelligence were at a point where we knew and could simulate every “wire” in the brain and could recreate the exact circumstances and experiences in a person’s life, could we have predicted that [...]
When does the future become inevitable?
Posted in Science & Spirituality on March 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The future is only inevitable when every combination of actions that we choose will lead to the same outcome or when everyone who could have influence for better or for worse chooses to take no action. So the more impactful the particular future is, the less likely it is to be inevitable, because it takes a [...]
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