The following is from chapter “The Old Mimoid”, in Solaris by Stanislaw Lem “But you don’t know what I was thinking about! Tell me something. Do you believe in God?” Snow darted an apprehensive glance in my direction: “What? Who still… Read More ›
Cosmos
Golem xiv: the poverty of Antigone
The best explanation I know about transhumanism, and the poverty of Antigone’s appeal to the ‘unwritten laws of the gods’, is the novel Golem xiv by great Stanislaw Lem. The frame of reference is Princeton molecular biologist Lee Silver’s marvellous… Read More ›
Theodicy 2.0
If someone is, like me, working all the time with RNGs and strives to produce MonteCarlo scenarios about events via computer simulations, he cannot help but thinking that different outcomes are due to different randomness structures (Sobol anyone?) In view… Read More ›
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky and Cosmism
It appears to me that a single idea transpires through Isaac Asimov’s “New Guide to Science”, Carl Sagan’s book “Cosmos” and many more: this idea is Cosmism. Konstantin Tsiolkovsky was a true legend, the inventor of astronautic and a pioneer… Read More ›
Exit from Eden: Milutin Milanković and his cycles
Milutin Milanković is a very interesting figure of mathematician. His theory of cycles of glaciers is the scientific explanation of the historical fact of an Exit from Eden. That exit triggered the advanced civilizations of the Nile and Mesopotamian valleys,… Read More ›
Stanislaw Lem: Revolution in the Mind
In Summa Technologiae, Stanislaw Lem of “Solaris” fame addresses some of the most pressing questions connected to the shape human life has acquired in the modern world because of technology, whereby the ontology of previous Weltanschauungen has been replaced in… Read More ›
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