Dyson and Fang

Why our universe is hospitable to life? Freeman Dyson talked on this subject on March 9, 2000 in Berkeley. You […]

Distributed Political Activism

Just came back from the Commonwealth Club, where words such as “agents for social change”, “absence of power”, “critical service […]

精神号

只有在新世界壮丽的怀抱里 你的灵魂才能安息 (《波茜星咏叹调》1986)

丹佛机场 (补昨天)

又见白色的群山。 你坐在餐车车厢里,听一位越战护士谈沙门。火车驶过一九九零年科罗拉多的青山绿水,到丹佛时夜色已深,只记得是个大站。 初次来到机场是九七年的落矶山之行。两年以后又在这里租车,作为西南之旅的起点,(第一站:阿斯本)。 回望群山,那是开始的终结,还是终结的开始? 前天你们在纽约重见,一切依然。

Nature and Beauty

“If nature were not beautiful, it would not be worth knowing. If nature were not worth knowing, life would not […]

高山流水

布鲁伦,泠冽夜,听“高山流水”

Theories about theories

Still Mitchel Resnick: “….move away from the notion of a single, absolute, unifying conception of knowledge, arguing instead that knowledge […]

Self and Mind

From Resnick: “Relationships with people in the world are internalized as agents or objects within the mind. ……the self emerges […]