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Monthly Archive for April, 2008

Everything is isomorphic

I fell quite a bit behind in my Linear Programming class this semester, and I just recently caught up. I handed in a large pile comprised of about nine weeks worth of homework all at once to the professor, and now I'm praying that he'll accept them so that I won't have to re-take the [...]

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I always hate to divide people into categories, because that assigns labels and limitations to them, and for reasons I'm about to get into, I'm not the kind of person that is OK with that. Still, it's often useful to do so anyway to explain things and examine differences, but I want to be clear [...]

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Identity

My friend Karen, who is teaching an Intro to Philosophy class this trimester at my old college, mentioned today that one of the units they'll be covering is about "identity." She gave me a very-much-abridged overview, saying that the class will be examining "what makes up a person's identity--mind, body, soul, etc." and gave an [...]

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