Feed your curious mind

INTRODUCTION

Greetings fellow surfers of the internet! Right now you are using the most sophisticated communication tool the human race has ever devised. You live in the future and you should rejoice. This is a time of great danger but also a time of great opportunity. That fact that you find yourself on this blog this very moment is a testament to all that our human race has learned through the awesomely powerful method of science. Our knowledge grows constantly and information technologies increase exponentially. Your ability to comprehend those sentences is even more astounding. Yes, buried below these scientific topics are those philosophical questions that underpin everything we build our world upon.

Our everyday lives may at times feel mundane and repetitive. When this happens I start contemplating everything that makes this existence so wonderful and mind-boggling. The fact that we, Homo sapiens sapiens, once dwellers of the African savanna recently compiled a highly-detailed gravitational map of the moon, still receive signals from two spacecraft Voyager 1 and Voyager 2, the first of which will soon leave our own solar system and much, much more show that these are indeed exciting times! So what am I getting at here? Well it's this.

What is the quintessential difference between our ancestral hunters and gatherers and contemporary humans working in factories using glasses with augmented reality to help them carry out maintenance of complex engines? 

Knowledge. Hard-earned knowledge.

"I believe our future depends powerfully on how well we understand this cosmos, in which we float like a mote of dust in the morning sky." ~Carl Sagan

I am from the northern European country Sweden and English is therefore my second language. This is the first attempt at a blog I've done which will also allow me to develop my skills in English further. The blog will mostly contain all the questions, wonderings and opinions that inhabit my mind, whether they be brief, sweeping, contemporary or deep, encompassing and ancient. If possible I could introduce a picture feed that touch topics I'm interested in. My goal is to write a post at least every week. I have a lot of things on my mind that need to be written down so this will also allow me to catalog my own thoughts and evaluate them. Hopefully I will touch on a subject of your interest that will offer you something of value.

I look at the future very brightly because I am aware of the potentially great harvests of knowledge that lay before us. I am also aware of all the dangers that this technology may bring. I am also interested in issues regarding secular humanism, in fact, that is how I got interested in philosophy (or was it the other way around?).  I started watching "The Atheist Experience" on YouTube  which is a great show and many videos contain long discussions about epistemology which is the philosophy about knowledge.  As you may have noticed, I am a big fan of technological advancements of all sorts and I reckon this will occupy a large chunk of posts. The overall content itself however will be mixed and I think there will be something for most people to enjoy. 

While I am a student of university, I am like everyone else, a student of life. 

So when you feel a bit down, inquisitive, or just want to kill some time you're always welcome to visit Inquisitivestudent at Ephemeral and perpetual contemplations.

Feed your curiosity