I’ve just pulled off the pothole ridden road in search of dinner, but instead I’m immediately confronted by a local store owner with the same, perpetually unsatisfied question that has come careening into my consciousness many times since my arrival in Asia: What am I doing here? […]
Time Travel – a deterministic, mathematical universe perspective
The reason mathematics has proven to be such an invaluable tool in understanding the properties and laws of the Universe, is because the Universe is in fact a mathematical structure. Yes, we live in a world with particles and forces, but every particle and every force is actually just an object of pure mathematics. Jesus, what a claim; let’s unpack that […]
Vipassana
[…] once I began to really concentrate on the focal point of pain—attempting to observe its nature objectively—the severity became strangely ambiguous; I wasn’t quite sure if it was acute pain or sparkling pleasure […]