by Ward | Jul 1, 2025 | Essays, Writing
First, it’s not a paradox. A paradox goes something like this: {X|x = ~x}. That’s not what Fermi is proposing.If you’re not familiar with Fermi’s paradox, here’s Wikipedia’s summation:“The Fermi paradox is a conflict between the argument that scale and probability...
by Ward | Jun 24, 2025 | Essays, Writing
It strikes me, thinking about the Titans, that the ancient Greeks assigned, not timeless attributes to their gods, but those attributes they considered most worthy. Light figures largely, as does water, but it is the mind that seems to be equivalent to these, again in...
by Ward | Apr 17, 2025 | Essays, Writing
I was thinking today the most emotional moment I’ve witnessed in film is the ending of City Lights. The Tramp stands, looks at the once blind girl in her florist shop, and his face is like a river filled with a mix of emotions only Chaplin could convey silently. But...
by Ward | Apr 9, 2025 | Essays, Writing
Sight is instantaneous and hence illusory and easily confused. Ask any magician.Our eyes connect directly to our brain. Our visual processing occurs at incomprehensible speeds, passing through various parts of our brain at nerve speed, and most of those internal...
by Ward | Mar 20, 2025 | Essays, Writing
There is no worse fate than being captive in a windowless room. If the room is small, all the worse. It must be said within our core being, windows promise escape.We don’t make buildings without windows, other than for specific reasons. Primarily, buildings that need...
by Ward | Feb 12, 2025 | Essays, Writing
If you could forget anything about yourself, about your past, about how you think, would you?I know I would. There are shameful things, fortunately not many, I’d like to forget. But I suspect, the revisions of myself, and my potential actions as a result, might...
