cosmos

Adherents to the dogma find themselves with a problem. They call it 'the black hole information paradox. They are convinced that inside an evaporated black hole there is no longer any information. Now, everything that falls into a black hole carries infor-mation. So a large amount of information can enter the hole. Information cannot vanish. Where... See more

Science and art are about the continual reorganization of our conceptual space, of what we call meaning. What happens when we react to a work of art is not down to the art object in itself, of course, still less to some mysterious world of the spirit: it lies in the complexity of our brain, in the kaleidoscopic network of analogical relationships... See more

Scientific thinking makes good use of logical and mathematical rigidity, but this is only one of the two legs upon which its success has been built. The other is the creative liberty taken with the conceptual structure, and this grows through analogy and recombination

We are always convinced that our natural intuitions are self-evidently right, and it is this that prevents us from learning more.

we have access only to perspectives. reality is perhaps nothing other than perspectives. there is no absolute. we are limited, impermanent. and it is precisely for this reason that to live, to be, as we do, is so light and sweet.