“A pragmatist is concerned with results, not reality.” -Nick Herbert “Quantum Reality” The trouble with the truth is that it is strange.  It is strange that we exist, it is strange that we are conscious, and it is strange that there is a universe of billions and billions of worlds suspended just above our heads.  But the strangest truth about the truth is that it could be strange at all, it is quite literally the only thing that should be boringly commonplace.  So why then is the truth so much stranger than fiction?  Perhaps it is because we do not [...]

“The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.” - Robertson Davies, Tempest-Tost We wish to see the world as it truly is, but our beliefs can be blinding and our biases misleading.  Perhaps it is time to doubt; to question everything as far as possible, and to leave the comforts of our dogmas in pursuit of truth.  But before we leave our beliefs behind to embark on this journey, let us look back on how those beliefs were first formed.  For blindly accepting the challenge to abandon belief with promise of later revelation is exactly the type [...]

I am writing this book on the advice of a friend.  He is an inspiration of relentless persistence and unashamed honesty.  It is certainly ironic that in order to write a book about belief, I first had to be convinced to believe in myself.  Speak what is on your mind Sean, as will I.  As far as my qualifications, I have by no means lived a perfect life nor am I an exemplary picture of the modern Christian man.  No, instead I have become acquainted with the struggle.  Wrestling with doubt and with God himself; I questioned everything that my [...]

It has been a few years since my last post. Perhaps I needed to live a bit before I continued to write. Or perhaps, that is simply the lie I tell myself to feel better about this lapse. Either way, in my quietest moments, I still feel called to write and share my writing. And while I have been away from this blog, I have not been away from writing entirely. I was a part of a movement within the medical community where I wrote to change antiquated views on an underserved disease. And, in my personal time, I began [...]

  Artificial intelligence is nothing new.  We have had intelligent programs/systems that are very intelligent at solving problems and performing complex tasks for decades. In fact, the famous Turing Test, which was invented to test if an artificial intelligence is able to be distinguished from a human intelligence in a short conversation, is not even applicable anymore in the field because AI is so far advanced past this test that it is easily passed by any properly designed AI. However, most AI is incredibly specialized and designed within limits.  We recently had a program designed by Google, AlphaGo, beat the [...]

Does the human soul chose out of free will?  Well that depends if you believe in a soul or a will I suppose. To prove a soul exists is like proving that God himself exists.  Many may believe in a soul and feel it deep within themselves but it seems impossible to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt.  There is no mathematical proof or experiment that we know to put a end to that questioning. However, one man once set out to do that exact thing.  The year was 1907 and the man was a Massachusetts physician named Duncan [...]