Category Archives: Pram

Foundling thoughts of uncertain parentage

Hobbling Time

Posted on 8 February, 2020 by alfin2101

There is an allotment of time for every thought. Our bandwidth of consciousness is limited to under one hundred bits per second at best, in spite of our ability to chunk information and utilise massive parallelism of cortical columns. When … Continue reading →

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Is Your Life NOT a Journey?

Posted on 6 September, 2016 by alfin2101

Longer and longer lives for fewer and fewer people born in the civilised world. What is it all about? Is it possible that our “metaphor” for life — a journey from birth to death — prevents us from living the … Continue reading →

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9 Year Old Boy Upstages Obama, Clinton, Trump in Louisiana Floods

Posted on 23 August, 2016 by alfin2101

The Idea Came to Him in a Dream These are not the sort of dreams that would come naturally to Obama or Hillary, of course. Carson Boutte celebrated his 9th birthday in an unconventional way. Instead of a party and … Continue reading →

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Improvising Alongside the Gods of Chaos

Posted on 12 March, 2014 by alfin2101

Learn the Rules Like a Pro So You Can Break them Like an Artist __ Guess Who We are sent to school to learn the rules so that we can succeed. So why are so many well-educated people driving taxis … Continue reading →

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Love Hurts, Truth Hurts, Beauty Hurts, But Suicide is Painless?

Posted on 20 February, 2014 by alfin2101

Life is hard, and then you die . . . attributed to Adam, husband of Eve, after having eaten of the fruit of the tree Life is what happens to us when we are making other plans. __ Allen Saunders … Continue reading →

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We Are Marching to Utopia: We Will Soon Be There — Special Christmas Reprise

Posted on 25 December, 2013 by alfin2101

A classic Al Fin article, originally published on Al Fin, and since re-published multiple times on various Al Fin blogs, for special occasions. …optimists and idealists — with their ignorance about the truths of human nature and human society, and … Continue reading →

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Al Fin Family of Blogs Update

Posted on 15 November, 2013 by alfin2101

This posting is updated from an original blog directory posting on the first Al Fin blog. It is provided for new readers who may be unfamiliar with the background behind many of the ideas being discussed on Al Fin Next … Continue reading →

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Long Time Passing: Where Have All the Geniuses Gone?

Posted on 31 October, 2013 by alfin2101

Scholars who study genius — far from geniuses themselves — claim that humans only came to revere genius when they lost their belief in God or gods. Humans seem to need to “believe” in something, so it may as well … Continue reading →

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We Are Marching to Utopia . . . We Will Soon Be There!

Posted on 3 February, 2013 by alfin2101

Originally published on Al Fin …optimists and idealists — with their ignorance about the truths of human nature and human society, and their naive hopes about what can be changed — have wrought havoc for centuries….instead of utopian efforts to … Continue reading →

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