Blogging

Blogging has been more difficult for me than I expected because, first, I have not been able to find my voice for this kind of writing and the topics/themes I would like to cover. On the themes/topics, I keep moving the "field": is it about themes related to my teaching? Yes. Is it about every day frames----risotto, geese flying, the snow? Um, yes but not really. The other difficulty is discipline to write here with consistency. My sense is that the two issues are related: since I am not sure about the themes, I do not find the time to write here. To address these problems, I will be blogging my conversations with the letters of Mr. Richard Feynman edited by his daughter in Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track. I like them for three reasons: they are funny, they are honest, and they are about interesting things. By the way, I am reading them now because I am teaching my history of science class and I am trying to understand how scientist think----I am guessing, Feynman would say, "I do not know how scientists think, this is how I think." Fair enough.

Reality

The basis of reality is memory (short-term/long-term memory): without memory there is no way of establishing your own reality, our own reality. If I can not remember the wall behind me, I can not establish the reality of this room.