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DUCKING THE PRICE OF BREAD. Such extraordinary virtual friends and dinner guests offer to give lively conversation, expand your mind, and avoid the numbing reality of Samuel Beckett overwhelming your dinner table conversations with the price of bread. View in LinkedIn

Although diminutive and easily missed, the tiny purple and white deadnettle flowers are truly exquisite works of geometry. View in LinkedIn

EXTENDED INTELLIGENCE: “intelligence as a fundamentally distributed phenomenon.” (Ito Joichi, Resisting Reduction: A Manifesto, 2017). https://lnkd.in/eb8yGxmV View in LinkedIn

NEW FRIENDS. Your parochial village can now be transcended. Your dinner guests can be great philosophers, scientists, writers and artists in a virtual community of friends you become intimately acquainted with during your readings. View in LinkedIn

UNLIMITED VOLUME. The sheer volume of original thought contained in these virtual libraries is essentially bottomless for all practical purposes. You can expand your intimate knowledge of extraordinary thinkers to the limit that you have the time available. A perverse twist on Parkinson’s Law. View in LinkedIn

MIND THE GAP. A state of awe is the beginning of the path to the secular sublime, the realization that we know little, and it is the gaps that illuminate the nature of reality. It is what is missing that is the most important part of this portrait. View in LinkedIn

A NEXUS OF CONCEPTS. “Properties of space must be part of the effective theory, and are indicators of the underlying structure as well. This is key in a scenario where the thermodynamic and information theoretic connections are tested in terms of a hydrodynamic emergence.” https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/JHEP07(2019)140.pdf View in LinkedIn

CAREER CHOICES. There are, presumably, some young enquiring minds who may stray onto these posts and be suddenly engaged enough to choose a career path in these esoteric fields. For sure that happened to me quite early in life when I read a book on circadian rhythms. It was quickly clear to me that the life sciences were of supreme interest. View in LinkedIn

FLATNESS. “Note that this type of effective theory must contain general relativity, but is not defined by curvature alone. Despite that the interesting physics of space-time often is defined as curvature, the governing properties of space-time also extend to how particles propagate through regions of (approximately) flat space-time.” https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/JHEP07(2019)140.pdf View in LinkedIn

THE HUNTING DOG. For me, researching these postings have been my Hunting Dog, a reason to go where I have no business going, and to continue the process of self-education driven by curiosity and wonder, leading more often than not to a state of awe. My motivation, I confess, is strictly selfish. View in LinkedIn