Thanks!

Michael Pershan, another good one from John Horgan

Just walked along Hoboken waterfront looking at people in goofy glasses looking the eclipse. Strangely exhilarating.

Shannon and Chomsky agree about something: «Meaning is a pretty hard thing to get a grip on… In mathematics and physics and science and so on, things do have a meaning, about how they are related to the outside world. But usually they deal with very measurable quantities, 1/2

'I’ve spent lots of time on totally useless things' says the guy whose ideas changed the world.

I cling, in spite of my doubts about science and bouts of derealization and psychedelic trips, to my naive realism. johnhorgan.org/cross-check/de…

My pal Sabine Hossenfelder explains, with her usual blunt, funny eloquence, why she loves science, and hates science. youtube.com/watch?v=LKiBlG…

Valuable, disturbing The New York Times investigation of corruption in health-care insurance. nytimes.com/2024/04/07/us/…

Curious about information theory and its inventor, Claude Shannon? I met Shannon in 1989 at his home, Entropy House. Here's my story about him and his theory. johnhorgan.org/cross-check/my…

My letter in the Times has generated a lot of interest so I thought it might help if I described the time line for reaching this frame of mind. I attach a copy of the letter and then run through a series of tweets to tell the story.

Umm, I'm still in The Mist too. In fact, Yhe Mist just gets mistier. For the curious, here's 'The Mist': johnhorgan.org/books/my-quant…

Thanks Tom. For others, here's the link to 'My Quantum Experiment': johnhorgan.org/books/my-quant…

John Horgan “My Quantum Experience” is a joy to read, of my own Free Will. A while ago I decided, in my retirement, that I’d learn Quantum Computing, with an on-line book & links. reading books, substacks, X, and playing games is more fun. Glad to read your journey, good amount about QM.

Miracle of miracles, I have a letter in today’s Times about cancer and chaos theory.

I often make each of my students respond to a prompt (like 'What's your utopia?') by 'going around the room.' It's my way of paying forward the humiliation.

I've been plagued by derealization, the sense that reality isn't, well, real, since I was a kid. Here are my thoughts on this syndrome. johnhorgan.org/cross-check/is…

I'm worried about students writing papers with AI, meanwhile scientists are already doing it. nytimes.com/2024/03/29/opi…

Thanks, man!

The 'minus-first law' of physics holds that 'information is never lost.' Everything that happens leaves its imprint on the universe forever. Wouldn't it be nice to think so. johnhorgan.org/cross-check/is…

Saturday, April 6, I'm participating in “From Bits to Qubits: A Celebration of Claude Shannon, Father of the Information Age” at Stevens Institute of Technology. For info see stevens.edu/event/from-bit…