I and many other scientists now believe that in around twenty years we will have the means to reprogram our bodies’ stone-age software so we can halt, then reverse, aging. Then nanotechnology will let us live forever. Continue reading Science and Immortality
Peoria Riverfront Park Dan Fogelberg Memorial Site
“To every man the mystery
Sings a different song
He fills his page of history
Dreams his dreams and is gone.”
A few weeks ago I wrote a post about an especially moving song about death by the American musician Dan Fogelberg whose lyrical rhymes often touch on existential themes. I have listened to his entire musical opus and virtually every song he wrote says something profound about life. He is also a master of surprising phrases such as in “sweetest sorrow,” “thundering, velvet hand,” or evocative poetry like “Burning lines in the book of our lives.”
Continue reading The Words and Music of Dan Fogelberg (1951 – 2007)
The Brain—is wider than the Sky—
For—put them side by side—
The one the other will contain
With ease—and You—beside— Continue reading Emily Dickinson: The Brain is wider than the Sky
Darwinian Theories of Human Nature
(This is my summary of a section of a book I often used in university classes: Thirteen Theories of Human Nature
“Is Evolution True? Yes, and the World is Round Too.“) Continue reading Summary of Darwinism on Human Nature
Sartre: Radical Freedom
(This is a summary of a chapter in a book I used in university classes: Thirteen Theories of Human Nature