Other Stuff

That theodicy is that our reason to be here is to divine the Divine (a Word doc whose second half describes the theodicy, and whose first third htripled in size is "Mawson's beliefs, Cantor's paradox").

To go back a little, having reintroduced (in 2005) the ancient Indian mathematics of a Realistic division by zero (in a more modern, Cantorian style) under both metaphysical possibilities for simple infinities, i.e. (C-I) Cantorian transfinite sets of points and (C-II) a more traditional, indefinitely extensible arithmetic, 2006 saw me still looking at C-II analysis, and trying to show the plausibility of the traditional Realistic indefinite extensibility of arithmetic with a bifurcated supertask, a modern-physical instantiation of Levy's paradox, in the final chapter of my dissertation, "What are my chances?".

At present I'm writing that up as 'Infinite Probes: A problem with probability?' but am constantly side-tracked by a swarm of related philosophical issues (e.g. Liar-style paradoxes, and most recently agency and prophecy), as on my blog Enigmania, written under the anagrammatically "Meaning"-full pseudonym of "enigMan".

To add a sliver of depth to your picture of me (with Mallards), the stuff I read includes (YF) Philip K Dick, Iain M Banks and Peter F Hamilton; and (more realistic mysteries) Iris Murdoch, Ruth Rendell and John Le Carre; and (our mysterious reality) Plato, Rene Descartes and Iris Murdoch; and (its poetic mysteries) T S Eliot, Wole Soyinka and Carol Ann Duffy; and (its mysterious future) tea-leaves: Bubbling away on the back burner (as my to-do list endlessly lengthens) are my increasingly outdated thoughts on the metaphysics of psychokinetics.

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