by beth | Aug 20, 2026 | Thinking
A Trick of the Mind A trick of the mind, by Daniel Yon, is a book about how the mind works. The basic idea is that we don’t see the world “as it is”, but a combination of the inputs and the mental models we hold of it. Mental models and neural networks Many...
by beth | Aug 17, 2026 | Thinking
Is free will compatible with the clockwork universe? The thinking in physics is that the world is either deterministic or random. It’s random (so far as we can tell) at the quantum level, but deterministic at scales larger than the nanometer. As a side note,...
