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Continue reading →: Playoffs
American Football is an acquired taste. I acquired it when Channel 4 first started broadcasting it. It was in the days of Joe Montana, the 49ers quarterback and the Fridge who played for the Chicago Bears. I was a 49ers fan but my allegiance has been fickle. So we’re down…
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Continue reading →: Just one thing
Dr Michael Mosley is our health guru. I didn’t manage the blood sugar diet, but giving up alcohol helped me lose weight at the time. If I was serious about weight loss I should try his Fast 800 programme. In the meantime I will give his Just One Thing a…
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Continue reading →: Violinist thought experiment
Imagine you woke up in a hospital bed and one of your kidneys was hooked up to a world class violinist with a kidney problem in the bed next to you. If you disconnect the link, the violinist would die instantly. Do you have the right to do that? It’s…
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Continue reading →: New year, new coffee
I love good Italian style coffee. My De Longhi bean to cup machine makes a reasonably good espresso, but it’s not as good as coffee from a professional machine. For that I go to La Bottega on the Lisburn Road. I hadn’t visited since before Christmas and received a warm…
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Continue reading →: Panpsychism
Fundamentally who are you? An animal, organism, human being. Yes, but what about your mind, your mental capacities? Can you fully explain matter without including psyche or consciousness? Descartes believed in the existence of ‘substance’ in his investigation of the mind/body problem. Do we need a philosophical understanding of matter?…
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Continue reading →: Corporate immorality
The recent Post Office scandal has revealed a corporate disregard for what is ethical in favour of maximising profits. The roll out of a computer system called Horizon to thousands of postmasters in the UK was done against the advice of Fujitsu’s engineers who had recommended rewriting the accounting software.…
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Continue reading →: Post Christmas
Life without my phone has been mostly tolerable. I was in no great rush to have the charging port repaired over the holidays, but normal life has resumed and being able to use apps to book taxis, find out about public transport, the weather has become more important. Music took…
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Continue reading →: Close run things
The top tier of world rugby is fighting it out for the rugby world cup. Ireland played brilliantly throughout the contest and came so close in the quarter final match against New Zealand. England’s form had been dreadful in the warmup games and we’re not expected to progress far in…
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Continue reading →: Conflict resolution
Those who think that superior military force can suppress the aspirations of a people who believe they have legitimate claims, are deluding themselves. Those who carry out atrocities in the name of liberation struggles will always incur international condemnation and frequently experience extreme counter measures. Without any attempt at a…
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Continue reading →: Personal identity
My Open University course has started with an interesting discussion about the Self. Am I the same person I was as a child? What makes me that person over time? Locke thought that memory was essential to the linkage, but that memory did not have to be stored in one…
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