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I give this illustration to my students because a winning lottery number exponentially pales in comparison to the odds against them being alive and breathing (even if they nod off a bit here and there) at this very juncture in history. But in order to appreciate the anomaly of one's existence it is necessary to get a deeper understanding of the theory of large numbers.
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I bring up the subject of Gumby and the spiritual claims surrounding him because I am often asked in class about the verdicality of certain metaphysical claims that abound in religious mythologies. My usual rejoinder is that we don’t want to enter into “Gumby Land” when doing philosophy since most of these kinds of questions (how many angels can sit atop an empty coke top?) are literally non-sense (in the precise definition of that term as first coined in the 17th century).
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Maya: The Physics of Deception
- By: Andrea Diem-Lane, David Christopher Lane
- Narrated by: Joseph Wosik
- Length: 27 mins
- Unabridged
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This audiobook explores the ancient Indian concept of Maya. Utilizing the latest research in neuroscience and physics, this work explains why Maya (or the notion of illusion) is an important concept and better understood today in light of science, even though ancient rishis had glimpsed its importance thousands of years ago.
By: Andrea Diem-Lane, and others
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- S. D. Sims
- 12-14-19
a short introduction to a impossibly vast subject
a billion answers are applied to a billion questions. how many points of intersection occur.
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- SarahK
- 03-01-16
Great Book!
An interesting little book. I've experienced my own thoughts and questions on some of the topics that are addressed in this book, but I could never put it into words.
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- Amazon Customer
- 04-11-17
Okay book.
The book is all over the place and mostly talks about humans seeking patterns. I was hoping for more examples of probability. There wasn't much of a build up to the infinitesimal probability which is really of no practical use. Great its very unlikely that I was born. In reality I'm of no importance on the scale of the universe.
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