Observation - cognition - is simply an extension of a physical, dynamic process in the universe, which perpetually creates time.

( Here's the rest of the equation: )

Little lives or all the world can suddenly turn on a dime ( Read more... )

Thomas Pynchon was the David Foster Wallace of the 1960's-1970's, (although he has been writing strong as of 2013).   He was a post-modernist, "thinking-man's hippie," I guess.  His sprawling masterpiece was, Gravity's Rainbow, (1973), which explored such realms as: preterition, paranoia, racism, colonialism, conspiracy, synchronicity, and entropy, ( Read more... )

( The 'Maxwell's Demon' of Metabolism... )

"Service is the rent we pay ( Read more... )