Tag: Time
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February 10, 2023 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. Before reading the ideas in this blog, I invite you to view a piece by artist M.C. Escher and listen to the “Endlessly Rising Canon” by Bach. In his book, Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, Douglas Hofstadter paraphrases Kurt Gödel’s Incompleteness …
August 20, 2021 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. I want to investigate the nature of time using three different sources: The Matrix, the recent Disney show Loki, and Jorge Luis Borges’s “Garden of Forking Paths.” Though very different, these three works embrace the concept of infinite futures. Their conceptualizations, then, allow …
July 21, 2017 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. Last week we introduced a couple of less than mainstream calendars . This week, we want to move back into a look at the contemporary calendar, as based upon the Roman calendar. Julius Caesar, of course, attended to the discrepancies in the calendar. …
July 14, 2017 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. Merriam-Webster defines calendar as “a system for fixing the beginning, length, and divisions of the civil year and arranging days and longer divisions of time (such as weeks and months) in a definite order”. The reasons for developing such a system are easy …
“But to what purpose/ Disturbing the dust on a bowl of rose-leaves/ I do not know.” – T.S. Eliot, “Burnt Norton” October 7, 2016 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s blog post. Recently, I was blessed with the opportunity to attend Philosophy Camp in the Adirondacks of New York. St. John’s College …
