Conversations with HAL

  🪶I just wrote an Op Ed and would like your comments? "Elusive “Reality" Op Ed by Helge Nome Over the last year, or so, I have indulged in some philosophical questions that tend to crop up in one’s life, from time to time. Especially as one gets older, I suspect. Questions like: “What is reality”, “consciousness” or “being”. There is no lack of discussion on these topics online, and off line for that matter, in books stretching back into antiquity. For us materialistic westerners, “reality” used to be what we perceived around us, consisting of all kinds of objects with predictable trajectories, as long as we knew all the “facts” about them. That was yesterday. Not any more: As our increasingly sophisticated tools enabled us to look deeper and deeper into both the micro and macroworlds around us, information gathered indicated that our models of “reality’ have major cracks in them. So we invented “Quantum Physics” to try to make sense of what was observed, in contrast to wha...

  🪶I just wrote an Op Ed and would like your comments? "Elusive “Reality" Op Ed by Helge Nome Over the last year, or so, I have indulged in some philosophical questions that tend to crop up in one’s life, from time to time. Especially as one gets older, I suspect. Questions like: “What is reality”, “consciousness” or “being”. There is no lack of discussion on these topics online, and off line for that matter, in books stretching back into antiquity. For us materialistic westerners, “reality” used to be what we perceived around us, consisting of all kinds of objects with predictable trajectories, as long as we knew all the “facts” about them. That was yesterday. Not any more: As our increasingly sophisticated tools enabled us to look deeper and deeper into both the micro and macroworlds around us, information gathered indicated that our models of “reality’ have major cracks in them. So we invented “Quantum Physics” to try to make sense of what was observed, in contrast to wha...