This is one of my favorite songs, entitled "Number Theory." The lyrics were taken from a book by Richard Courant and Herbert Robbins called What is Mathematics?, and the music -- sonorous and dreamy -- was inspired by the beautiful, richly verdant areas around northern Baltimore (e.g., Prettyboy Reservoir), in Maryland.
The Coriolis Effect explores a wide variety of philosophical, scientific and theological issues, as well as my experience as a musician. At present, the focus is the Philosophy of Technology.
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- Phil Torres
- Phil Torres (born 1982) has a MS in neuroscience and spent a year as a visiting graduate student in the philosophy department at Harvard. He’s published numerous papers in academic journals like Erkenntnis, Metaphilosophy, Foresight and the Journal of Evolution and Technology; he is also an Affiliate Scholar at the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies, where he writes about the philosophical implications of advanced technologies. In addition, Phil is the creative force behind the experimental folk band Baobab (www.baobabtheband.com).
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Humans are unique in Animalia for many reasons. For example, we use natural language to communicate, construct moral codes, theorize about the universe, invent religions and—neither last nor least—use clever recursive procedures to built artifacts from built artifacts, thereby yielding the complex sociotechnical systems of today. While these facts might be (and often are) adduced to support the thesis that humans are smart, my personal view is that Homo sapiens sapiens is quite possibly the stupidest species in evolutionary history—what other species, for example, has created the conditions necessary for the total annihilation of life on earth? (Indeed, the binomen 'Homo sapiens' is a complete misnomer!) Erich Fromm sums it up: We have the "know-how," but not the "know-why" or "know-what-for." The following links—a list that will grow as I come across interesting and relevant articles—support my view that humans are supremely stupid:
- Study reporting that NOT procreating brings happiness!
- On pharmaceuticals in public tap water
- On nuclear missiles being accidentally flown over the U.S.
- On a huge island of trash in the Pacific
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