Month: December 2016

Run away, run away…

The German market story shows the integration of Europe that the Brexiters hate; along with the German victims, we have an Italian woman working in Germany who was a most likely a victim, a Spanish student on the Erasmus program…

Daily Mail – Tom Utley and his Christmas ‘plea-lemic’

Tom Utley’s Christmas plea in the Daily Mail online highlights all that is wrong with the Leaver campaign. He’s partly right – there will be some Brexiters who will have analysed the relationship of the UK in the EU and…

Baby, it’s cold outside

Most species that have lived on Earth have gone extinct. Life on this planet exists because of microscopic life. Life is majority bacteria by sheer mass and how those bacteria respond pretty well determines if we live or go extinct.…

Axiom of Existence and Persistence

Axiom of Existence and Persistence People often ask why things exist and my axiom of existence by persistence could help move this question along. The axiom is stated, What exists is what persisted. or put another way,  What exists now…

The burden of proof remains with you.

A lack of belief that god exists is not a belief that no god exists. A lack of belief that ‘x exists’ simply means that the neural network structures which would allow me to say that ‘x exists’ (is true)…

Mind over matter

Whilst we can make things out of aluminium, we do not make the element aluminium. We make things out of wood and whilst we do grow trees we did not create the genomes of trees. Our experiences with minds tells…

Economic magnets

We British tied Merkel’s hands many years ago – the Basic Law of Germany was agreed by the Allies after the 2nd world war and it guarantees refugee rights. Trouble is that decades of US/UK interfering with Middle East politics…

Brexit Blues and all that Jazz.

Britain grew to be an economic powerhouse by Britons travelling far and wide. We created new countries and transformed old ones whether you like that or not and we have left a legacy of  culture, the most prominent of which…