Author Archives: Jolz

Experiments with Truth

Democracy is a ticket to experiment. This is the essence of everything good and correct – experimentation. As a scientist, you experiment with different options until you arrive at what you think is a satisfactory outcome, and when new evidence presents itself you are happy to change your mind. As a builder, you experiment withContinue reading “Experiments with Truth”

Inertia of Servitude

With hindsight 20-20, I am increasingly boggled by what kept me religious way into my 40s! What conspired to blind me to live a life built around irrational belief states? Why didn’t I ask questions that now seem so obvious for me to ask and challenge the indoctrination I was subjected to? The answer thatContinue reading “Inertia of Servitude”

‘Sapiend’ing Perception

Have you considered the distance between two galaxies? How about the empty space between electrons zipping around the nucleus? When a scientist says “I don’t know” to a question can you measure the depth of knowledge required make that proclamation? Can you articulate the magnitude of synaptic firings that begin as you attempt to recallContinue reading “‘Sapiend’ing Perception”

Otherbrainly.

Many a superstition, belief system, worldview, and dogma has taken root from dreamlike stages of a brain – an influential brain – somebody convinced strongly enough of the illusion and able to convince others of its truth by pure assertion. I can conjecture two natural causes for this phenomenon: one, the cerebral-cortex-involved entanglement that happensContinue reading “Otherbrainly.”

Zeitgeist – The Spirit of the Times

I have always felt its vector. Have had a subtle sensation of its singular yet collective tug. I rely on it for my daily confidence in society (law makers, bureaucrats, movie makers, newspaper editors, writers, judges, politicians, artists, directors, editors, producers, bloggers, scientists, teachers) but fear for it too! I recognize how fragile it is.Continue reading “Zeitgeist – The Spirit of the Times”

Can’t be bothered…

My aversion of theistic or atheistic labels affixed to myself is based on a desire to go through life’s situations using logic/reason as opposed to faith-based leaps as much as possible (the ‘as-much-as-possible’ could be considered a cop-out because I don’t claim to possibly have enough data/information to make every real-life impromptu decision logically.) UnlikeContinue reading “Can’t be bothered…”

Goldilocks

Originally recorded 2019-09-12 1:13 PM Ever since I was a child, teenager maybe, I was aware of this thought that ‘life’ was simply a product of the current physical, chemical, biological state of our universe/environment. The limited view of scientists who keep searching for life or postulate the probability of life based on the smallContinue reading “Goldilocks”