“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 [...]

“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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

  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 [...]

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 [...]