DNA, the code of life? Or only part?
Hofstadter asks whether the meaning is in the code or the interpreter?
Which came first? The chicken or the egg?
DNA isn’t exactly like that, because the existing form affects the expression of the code. Which in turn affects the expression and replication of said code. DNA should more be […]

Prompted by reading a chapter on Zen in “Gödel, Escher, Bach”:
Zen seems to be a sort of holism to the extreme… dissolving the self to become one with the universe and achieve enlightenment.
In some ways I see the use for this viewpoint while meditating and as a relaxation technique. In particular the concept that all […]

Looks like I’m not the only one:

“Is someone you work with taking Provigil to give them an extra competitive edge? I’ve spoken with one executive who says he uses it regularly to work twenty hour days, and the buzz lately is that it’s the “entrepreneur’s drug of choice” around Silicon Valley. Over the last week […]