It might have been the corrugated Oculus Rift, or it might have been the Amazon boxes arriving daily. It might have been the cardboard containers we’ve been collecting for a shoot, or Trump openly mocking a reporter’s physical disability, or the photo of Bernie Sanders with an arm draped over Killer Mike’s shoulder. A dangerous looking man, […]
Me: It sounds like you’re voting for Sanders, then, am I right? Pragmatist: No, no. God, no. Me: Wow, so I totally misunderstood what you were saying just now, because it really did sound like … Pragmatist: Oh, you heard right. I agree with 99% of what he’s saying. I just don’t think he’s electable. The Nader […]
Computer scientist Jacques Vallée advances an interesting theory. What if time and space don’t exist? What if they’re only byproducts of consciousness itself, helpful patterns we superimpose on our experiences in the same way we might decide that a cloud looks like a rabbit or a pig? What if, and this is where we get down to it, the linear universe we […]
