Tag Archive: Philosophy

The Anthropic Subject and the Anthropic Object

As I wrote in another post, we like to think of ourselves as living in a post-anthropic era where human beings are not special beings at all.  This belief is half right. We are certainly aware that human beings are one object among many; we are no longer the centre of the objective universe. But…

M-Theories

In theoretical physics, M-theory is a candidate theory of everything. It is a theory that no one seems to know much about and has been called a piece of 21st century science that accidentally landed in the twentieth century. This site is not about the M-theory of physics. Instead, it is about various other M’s that should…

The Organities

According to the cognoscenti biology is the science of the 21st century just as physics was the science of the 20th. Within biology itself, neuroscience is rising fast and becoming the go-to science. Donors, funding agencies and newspapers seem to agree. Even science fiction movies have shifted from space exploration, i.e., Star Wars and Star…