On the occasion of Poundie's birthday, August 15, 2026
https://www.amazon.com/Sociological-Cogito-Hard-Problems-Science/dp/1041303467/ref=sr_1_3 ? $233.99 to discover what the solution is to the hard problem of consciousness? Do not buy this book. If I'm still alive when it comes out in a few months, I will send you a copy. I'm not in any imminent danger of leaving this so-called fine-tuned universe but approaching 86 next month and with my family history I could pop off at any moment. I am now convinced that André Breton was right: dream and reality blend into a kind of absolute reality, a surreality.. We are living in a world whose essence is best captured by surrealists not critical realists like I was until a few moments ago. Here are a few tidbits from my recent excursions for your amusement. We are not living in a simulation. That is just another way for physicists and philosophers to sneak god back into the picture. And multiple univers...