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Continue reading →: Stirring it
My obsession with coffee is well known by my peers. A double espresso with a class of water is my usual order at our local Italian bistro café (or Il solito – my usual in Italian). I am always provided with a dainty little spoon even though I don’t take…
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Continue reading →: Six Nations
Ireland will have tough competition in their opening game tomorrow night against France. I would secretly like Italy to beat England on Saturday but it seems unlikely. Scotland should be favourites to beat Wales. Of course I have placed some long odds bets on the games. Yellow card betting has…
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Continue reading →: Doing the knowledge
How do we know what we know? Descartes started the whole debate questioning the certainty of what we accept without challenging its veracity. He was attempting to strip back our understanding of what we know and discard everything else. That old adage ‘cogito ergo sum’ was Descartes’ catchphrase. He doubted…
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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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