MY LETTER TO EDITOR ON CANADIAN FEDERAL ELECTION
I went to university when the liberal arts were the force, not economics. Consequently, I have a liberal mindset. In my grief at the election results I turned to Spinoza, who said our philosophical...
View ArticleSPINOZA IN DRAG & A LETTER TO LEONARD SUSSKIND (ARTICLE FOR SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN)
IN BRIEF Things jump out of the symmetry of energy as holograms and true ideas are immanent not transcendent. Philosophy is the definition of things and science is the demonstration of things. The...
View ArticleSCIENTIFIC AMERICAN’S RESPONSE
Dear Contributor, Thank you for your offer to contribute to Scientific American. The Board of Editors has considered your proposal and I regret to say that the piece you propose is not suited to our...
View ArticleLETTER TO EDITORS OF SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN
Here’s the letter from the April issue and below it, my response: DISAGREEING ON EVERYTHING – As theoretical physicists, we deplore the publication of A. Garrett Lisi and James Owen Weatherall’s, ‘A...
View ArticleSPINOZA & HURRICANE SANDY
I’ve been thinking about all the families hurt and injured by Hurricane Sandy. Spinoza says god generated all things as perfect and it is the salvation of all things. By ‘perfect,’ Spinoza meant we...
View ArticleLetter To A Friend
Dear —– Again you have been a great blessing to me in understanding myself. Your handwritten letter (!) pointed out to me that I am not doing philosophy but emendation. Emendation of my intellect....
View ArticleLetter to Christopher A. Fuchs, Perimeter Institute
Dick DeShaw 370 Barrie St Kingston On K7K 3T3 http://dickdeshaw.com/category/blog June 10/13 Dear Dr Fuchs: Has anyone commented to you on the similarity of QBism and Spinoza’s ‘Being of Reason’? As...
View ArticlePTSD & THE 12 STEPS – LETTER TO A FRIEND
February 18, 2014 Dear Vince: I can’t believe how long it has been since I last saw you. You are always in my heart and on my mind. You got me out of prison and showed me there was a way to survive...
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