There is no free will. It cannot even be defined.
Pleasure and pain
Maybe the original sin really was to gain consciousness (“your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil”, Genesis 3:5) which is why humans are doomed to “in pain… bring forth children”.
Strange loops
Some extrapolations of Douglas Hofstadter’s book I am a strange loop.
A tribute to open source software
A technical experiment – the origin of this blog.