The Horizon of Reason

Exploring the boundaries of logic and perception

Tag: chaos

The truth of Pi

My idea of a great time: smoking sheesha in Egypt, wearing my favourite T-shirt (ThinkGeek.com).
The print on the shirt consists of the first 4,493 digits of the number Pi in the shape of the symbol itself.
The number Pi, not the number 42 as some have proposed, symbolises the ultimate truth of the universe. Let me [...]

Heraclitus and Freud

It dawned me a little while ago that the human condition is one of ongoing tension between the way the world is (ontology) and the way our mind works (psychology).
The world is inherently unpredictable – even our best attempts to make it predictable ultimately fail. We have trouble predicting the weather more then a few [...]