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Carl Sagan has been very important in the development of my views. Even before I knew who he was.
Here is a sample why:
When I was 14 I saw the movie “Contact” and for the first time in my life realized that it was okay to admit I was an atheist.
So it is nice to read [...]
Megan McArdle, over at Jane Galt, used a term that I’ve never heard before, but I really like:
Agnotheist: An agnostic who puts a very, very low –yet non-zero! — P-value on God.
That very small, yet non-zero P-value is as certain as we will ever be to knowing anything about the universe.
I read The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology by Ray Kurzweil a few months ago, and I found it to be thought provoking book and highly recommend it (I did find Kurzweil’s fascination with living forever somewhat bizarre). One of the most interesting topics I was exposed to was on the movement [...]
Given that the chances for life somewhere else at some time is relatively high, how bizarre can these creatures get? How big can they be?
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