Category: General

Happy Chinese New Year (CNY). 2025 is the year of the snake. In the west we measure the year by the sun, China also uses the moon, and other cycles. … Continue readingChinese New Year

Beyond the atom, quantum mechanics introduced the quark. Some claim quantum solves the hard problem of consciousness. The question of how the physical brain can produce subjectivity. Consider quantum entanglement, where … Continue readingQuark Quark

The person who attempted to assassinate Trump, Thomas Matthew Crooks, shares my names Mathew Thomas, but I’m not a crook. However I share the ambition of removing of a fake … Continue readingAssassinate

Instead of bits, quantum computers use qubits. Beyond the binary logic of 1 or 0, they describe a third state, 1, 0, or ?. In quantum mechanics, this third state … Continue readingQuantum

Deciding whether to go to Taiwan again provoked the memory of travel from China. I remember going to Bhutan, a fascinating county, focussed on existence I thought. Their key metric … Continue readingBhutan

Happy 10th anniversary my love. Some thought we wouldn’t make it, for me it will never end. It’s been 10 years of marriage, and 10 years before. I think our … Continue readingTogether

We went to see Transverse Orientation by Greek playwright Dimitri Papaioannou. I think it investigates consciousness, perhaps indirectly according to the author asking him during question time. He did agree … Continue readingOrientation

A conversation with Elon. Even though you have a lot, we might stop using money for exchange. No need for human labour with the robots. Emotion has always been a … Continue readingMusk

Below is a link to the movie the Third Industrial Revolution. A documentary, and book, by Jeremy Rifkin. It contemplates climate change, and human evolution. He says we are evolving … Continue readingRevolution

Christmas eve is the Germany celebration, the 24th of December. I once thought Christmas was everyone’s birthday, all giving and receiving gifts. The birthday of Jesus is more than religion, … Continue readingChristmas

Glasgow COP (Conference of the Parties) on climate change hasn’t achieve much, except that the two greatest polluters of the world are talking again. It’s about time that governments took … Continue readingCOP26

A second cat cremation, farewell Puteh. They say there is one certainty in life, death. I hope you make friends with Momo in cat heaven.  Puteh was a very dear … Continue readingPuteh