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Interactive Schrödinger’s Cat

This is kind of cute. My personal interpretation of Schrödinger’s equations would traditionally be to deny the actuality of wave function collapse, which is part of the Many-Worlds Interpretation of quantum mechanics, but I haven’t looked into this or really considered it since I was fourteen (thousand) years old. I thought it was awesome at [...]

Famous Physicists on Mysticism #3: “Science and the Beautiful” by Werner Heisenberg

I would like to express again, for those who missed the first two installments of this series, that the views expressed within the essays are those of the physicists who wrote them, not me. It’s called “Famous Physicists on Mysticism,” not “Isis on Mysticism.” This essay is one of my favourite, and it is partly [...]

Opera & Transhumanism II

The NBIC Report (click for full .pdf) was the published result of a U.S. government sponsored conference on converging technologies applicable to improving human performance: “The chief areas of application include: expanding human cognition and communication, improving human health and physical capabilities, enhancing group and societal outcomes, strengthening national security, and unifying science and education. [...]