A serious philosophical discussion about quantum physics without the new age crap.
Part 1 - The Stern-Gerlach Experiment, wherein we introduce the series and get an idea as to why classical mechanics is out the window.
The book I'm using is R.I.G. Hughes, 'The Structure and Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics'
Consciousness can be characterised as a tangled heirarchy where the higher levels can affect the lower levels which cause them.
Thanks to Daniel Dennett and Douglas Hofstadter.
Music: Tirol Concerto, movement II by Philip Glass
Think about it.
Slavoj Zizek talks about those who say 1990 was the end of utopias, it is just as utopian to believe that we are at the end of history and that western liberal democracy is the answer.
images from the electric sheep project
http://www.youtube.c om/watch?v=2r46MpFKJ 8A
For Those who Can Still Ride in an Airplane for the First Time
By Anis Mojgani
Thank you Anis for shaking the dust,
Making me live,
Coarsing
Like blood
Pumping,
Like the millions of years of millions of poets
everything.
1. Max Horkheimer, 'Traditional and Critical Theory' in Critical Theory: Selected Essays, p. 197.
Can't seem to find it on the web, but I will try in the future to post links to stuff I refer to.