Real Physics

Thomas Aquinas College published a ten-part YouTube series on AI, Mind and Machine by Michael Augros.

Jorge Luis Borges, the intellectual's intellectual, begins his essay on the infinite, "Avatars of the Tortoise," with this: There is a concept which corrupts and upsets all others.

Today is the feast of Albertus Magnus, St.

Today is the feast of St.

To the choirmaster.

There's a meme going around observing how Hallmark movies tend to feature a female protagonist who falls for the quirky, useless but entertaining guy over the steady but boring guy who wants to provide for her (and presumably a family).

Physicist David Bohm reflects on how a fragmenting philosophy, like mechanism, even though mistaken, tends to become a sort of self-fulfilling prophecy and to create fragmentation in the objective world: Of course, there are areas in which the production…

A video I saw on "Dijkstra on foolishness of Natural Language Programming" (April 11, 2025) helpfully exposed me to some of Dijkstra's ideas on language.

Sabine Hossenfelder, whom I generally like and who's probably one of the most sane of the public physicists, thinks scientists have managed to measure qualia.

I've been watching the series of interviews that Curt Jaimungal conducted of Jacob Barandes from Harvard.

Once you realize that "I don't have what I need" is all that you need, then your life can begin.

Following up on the previous post, on Ex Machina (2014), one remarkable aspect of the film is the ease with which Caleb accepts the possibility, and even desirability, of an amorous relationship with Ava.

When I saw the ads for Ex Machina (2014) many years ago, I thought it was some sort of sex-robot fantasy with a pretentious, high-minded esthetic.

I may get in trouble for this, but I mean nothing heterodox.

As he declined into dementia, my father was always asking to go home.

I have friends who complain about replacing "AD/BC" with "CE/BCE" (Common Era, Before the Common Era) for historical dates.

The title might sound condescending, but "toy" is meant in a sense similar to that in a physicist's "toy model," an oversimplified version of a physical situation.

A long time ago when I was an undergraduate, I read Thomas Molnar's The Pagan Temptation.

Thomas Nagel once wrote a famous paper "What Is It Like to Be a Bat?"

Alas, science fiction novelist Michael F.

Just a hot take regarding this short video: A Bet Against Quantum Gravity (6.75 mins).

The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me.

I've been reading Garrigou-Lagrange's Providence.

Recently re-read Mrs.

In recent years I've from time to time heard the lament that the adults aren't in charge anymore, as they were for example in the middle of last century.