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I've been fascinated by the Zen belief that most important decisions are to be made within 7 breaths. Of course this rich historical Philosophy is not urging us to rush our decisions. Rather, what it contends is that our first reaction to important decisions, which happen in 7 breaths, are usually the ones that we make and spend the rest of our long decision process for convincing ourselves of. This is not some magic happening in our brains, or attributing some metaphysical importance to our instincts. The decision that we make in the first seven breaths are actually the manifestation of our long time thoughts that have been "boiling" for a long time.  What I have experienced in the last few years is that songs or everything related to songs are excellent facilitators of becoming aware of such decisions that we have made but not were aware of. When I think of few important decisions I've taken in the last few years are all associated with a song that made everything...

Here is a video of supersonic streams of hot gas coming out of young stars, as observed by Hubble: And here is the video of NASA's Cassini probe approaching Saturn: These terrific videos remind me of the memorable passage in Battlestar Galactica, where the most intellectual of the different Cylons - robots in form of humans- resents his creators for giving him a human body and human soul: Ellen: The five of us designed you to be as human as possible. John: I DON'T WANT TO BE HUMAN! I want to see gamma rays ! I want to hear X-rays , and I -- I want to -- I want to smell dark matter ! Do you see the absurdity of what I am? I can't even express these things properly because I have to -- I have to conceptualize complex ideas in this stupid, limiting spoken language! But I know I want to reach out with something other than these prehensile paws, and feel the solar wind of a supernova flowing over me! I'm a machine, and I could know much more, I could experience so...

2 times 2 is four. Or isn't it? The nature of truth has eluded humanity for thousands of years. Before any set of thoughts can be considered as philosophy, it has to clearly define its epistemology - its version of the knowledge science. From different approaches to epistemology, mathematical ones have stood out as the ones that are most close to an ultimate epistemology. Yet in science and philosophy, even the most trivial facts has to be rigorously proven. And using mathematics as the ultimate epistemology has proved to be one of the most challenging undertakings in the intellectual history of humanity, which lead to many bright minds to go insane. Logiocomix , hailing from the birth place of Philosophy, is a very interesting comic book that chronicles this intellectual journey with the main protagonist being Bertrand Russell, and characters such as Wittgenstein -portrayed above during an attack of existentialist rage- Gödel, Carnot, Poincare and Von Neumann. I've ordered the...