Is this the meaning of life?
Friday, 05 March 2010 13:33
MJH
The Guardian takes a stab at the meaning of life with the aid of new developments in evolutionary theory that suggest humans have a central role to play in the future of the universe. It is often assumed that the science-based worldview implies that life on this planet is a meaningless accident in a universe that is indifferent to our existence. Humans struggle to find purpose within this purely naturalistic understanding of reality, and so they supplement it with beliefs in supernatural processes and entities.However, recent advances in our understanding of evolution are revealing a bigger picture that can, by itself, give meaning to life. This new worldview locates humanity within a much larger evolutionary process that appears to offer us a meaningful role to play. Read full story.
Last Updated on Friday, 05 March 2010 14:54
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The New Website
Saturday, 07 July 2007 09:54
MJH
This is my new site, a showcase firstly for my writing, and then, later, who knows what. So, bear with me. It's a work in progress.
Last Updated on Friday, 05 March 2010 13:27
Read not The Times ...
Monday, 11 August 2008 00:42
MJH
Read not the Times. Read the Eternities. Conventionalities are at length as bad as impurities. Even the facts of science may dust the mind by their dryness, unless they are in a sense effaced each morning, or rather rendered fertile by the dews of fresh and living truth. Knowledge does not come to us by details, but in flashes of light from heaven - Henry David Thoreau. A favourite quote, from whence I derived the site's title. The site itself, currently, is just a place to collect together and showcase my writing.
Last Updated on Wednesday, 18 February 2009 12:15
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Why We Almost Certainly Live in a Reality Simulation
Tuesday, 12 August 2008 22:33
MJH
"[T]here is a significant probability that you are living in a computer simulation. I mean this literally," says Nick Bostrom, a postdoctoral fellow in the philosophy faculty at Oxford University. "Your brain, too, is merely a part of that simulation."
Last Updated on Monday, 23 February 2009 21:23
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A Stay of Mind
Monday, 11 August 2008 04:22
MJH
 Thailand may be a country steeped in great wisdom, with its temples and monasteries, its gentle cheerful people, and its revitalising sun kissed New Age sanctuaries, but for me the wisest lessons I learned there came from a hotel.
Yeah, you read that right. A hotel. (When you’re finished rubbing your eyes and casting amusing double-takes at your glass / bottle / cigarette, read on.)
Last Updated on Friday, 13 February 2009 15:45
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