michael_nielsen

...examine your monstrous wax Icarus feathers, because more than any single other manmade thing in the world, technology *shapes* society.

If you are pleased with the way reality is operating, today on December 10, 2016, then go ahead and tell Miyazaki to speak more softly.

Thomas Merton advocated silence, empathy, self-examination, interiority → things that restrain, illuminate, heal.https://twitter.com/mariachong/status/807631135853264896 …

If we humans are just calcium levers, enzymes, mitochondria, electric impulses → I suppose none of this matters & Merton/Miyazaki are fools.

is that there is _tremendous_ meaning in the exact pattern of arrangement.

I know as a science-lover, I'm probably the exception. But I believe there is more than just physicality/material things.

Maybe it's dimensionality, maybe it's quantum structure, maybe there are invisible strings. Or apricot jelly. Or God.

Admittedly, the apricot jelly hypothesis looks pretty shaky...