reality

Physicists generally describe their model of the world in mathematical terms, rather than with stories. Describing behaviors around us with math has allowed very accurate predictions of controlled experiments, which have fostered increasingly complex technology. This then raises the philosophical question of what math really is, and whether this math that we’ve discovered or invented as a species is similar to, or radically different than the math that rules the behavior of our cosmos....

As conscious beings, consciousness is our intimate (and only) perspective on any particular view of the cosmos. By understanding the nature of consciousness, and the implications that follow that understanding, our minds open to appreciate the true nature of reality, and what may lie at the root of everything. I do not mean to say that there is a special enlightenment or salvation that’s on offer here. However with some perspective, we can look at life in an interesting way....