Religion is a useful model
"All models are wrongSome of them are useful"(aphorism in statistics)Belief is in your deedsLet's observe first that we can never contain the whole complexity of the world in our brain. In most situat...
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On Philosophy - essay
One philosopher said that "philosophy is a natural act of human living" and I agree with him. But what brings philosophy in addition to "regular" science"? I find Philosophy to be a kind of "meta-sci...
Debt gives value to money
What gives value to money? There was a time when money was pure gold. Later, money was a certificate that you own a quantity of gold in bank (banknotes). Now the money are just quality paper, without...
DNA and the fabric of the Universe
The genetic code seems to not be enough to describe the complexity of a human being. In fact, it seems too small to describe most of the life forms. We could assume that the genetic code has all the i...
Genetic code (DNA) is not enough
Photo: wikipedia.org Genetic code (DNA) could be seen as the best compression algorithm that we have ever seen. Just think about it: in only around 1 GBytes, DNA could store the information to create...
The meaning of music
The meaning of music is hard to capture in words. Let's try some ideas anyway! The brain bug The brain has a natural ability to extract patterns from all the stimulus. It's a fact that we like the mus...