Reality
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Cosmos
Is Time an Illusion?
There are very few things that human beings accept throughout their lives without ever questioning them. Time is perhaps one of the most fundamental. Morning turns into evening. Children grow up. People grow old. Stars are born and eventually die. Clocks keep ticking, and calendars continue to change. All of these experiences lead us to believe that time is constantly…
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Consciousness
Does Language Limit Thought?
Are the Things a Human Being Can Think the Same as the Things They Can Say? At first glance, this question appears simple. Most of us assume that thought comes first and that language is merely a tool used to express it. Ideas form in our minds, and then we convert those ideas into words. Language seems like a transport…
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Notes
If mathematics is the language of the universe, who wrote it?
If Mathematics Is the Language of the Universe, Who Wrote It? We often say that mathematics is the language of the universe. Planets move according to equations. Light bends through space in ways geometry can predict. The smallest particles we know seem to behave according to patterns that can be written on a page, tested in a laboratory, and used…
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