Eric Scheske

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Paradox

The Technology Paradox

The Technology Paradox

The more efficient technology makes us, the less efficient we become. Of course, information technology saves time by doing things quickly. Or does it? Bosses save wages, but we become their new, unwilling wage slaves. Meanwhile, with the automation of more and more processes that used to take a five-minute

We Create Art All the Time. Try to be Rational about It.

We Create Art All the Time. Try to be Rational about It.

Here’s the thing about art: It’s utterly irrational. Our need to create, our need to share, our need to have it appreciated, our need to depict truth or beauty or goodness. But the artistic work itself is rational, within its sphere.

The Left Hemisphere is a Paradox Moron

The Left Hemisphere is a Paradox Moron

It is very possible that "paradoxes are actually fundamental to reality. . . . We exist in a world, of not forms, but of paradoxes." Lex Fridman (Edward Frenkel, #370), 1:10:25

How to Break a Maniac

How to Break a Maniac

My daughter sent that comic to me. The whole thing shows three ancient philosophers competing in the Philosophy event at the Greek Olympics: Thales, who declares everything is water. Zeno, who declares motion is impossible. Socrates, who declares they’re full of bulls***. Socrates won. But of course, he didn’