Tom
My blogs
Blogs I follow
- Conscious Entities
- Experimental Philosophy
- fragments of consciousness
- It's Only A Theory
- Obscure and Confused Ideas
- Philosophy Talk: The Blog
- Possibly Philosophy
- The Accidental Blog | The Accidental Mind | David J. Linden
- The Ethical Werewolf ‡ by Neil Sinhababu
- The origin of consciousness
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Science |
| Occupation | Physicist |
| Location | Colorado, United States |
| Introduction | PhD in particle physics, active as a musician (classical guitar mostly, but also Renaissance lute, rock and roll/blues guitar, piano, plus a variety of Celtic folk instruments, i.e., fiddle and cittern) |
| Interests | Science, philosophy, classical music, playing classical guitar, early fantasy lit (Dunsany, Cabell, Willima Morris, Lovecraft), Celtic Music, playing Bach fugues on piano |
| Favorite Movies | The Man Who Wasn't There (Cohen bros), Dead Man (Jarmusch), China Town, Une Pure Formalitie, Jean de Floret, The Children of Men, Monty Python's The Holy Grail, Dr. Strangelove, 2001, AI (Kubrick and Spielberg), Alien and Aliens, Blade Runner, Mystery Train, Night on Earth, Cape Fear, About Schmidt, Deliverance, Something About Mary, The Jerk, Love and Death (Woddy Allen), Crime and Misdemeanors (Woody Allen), Take the Money and Run, The Seventh Seal (Bergman), Tous les Matins de la Monde, Le retour de Martin Guerre, Mulholland Drive, Blood Simple |
| Favorite Music | Bach, Pre 1965 Blues, 1950's Rock-a-Billy, Buxtehude, Palestrina, John Dowland's lute music, Francesca da Milano's lute music, Celtic (e.g., Chieftans and Bothy Band) |
| Favorite Books | The Charwoman's Shadow (Dunsany), The Stuff of Human Thought (Pinker), The Feynman Lectures, Scarlett Letter, Bonfire of the Vanities (Tom Wolfe), The Selfish Gene (Dawkins), Crime and Punishement, Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (Twain), Lord of the Rings (Tolkein), The Shining (S. King), Short Stories of HP Lovecraft, Galapagos (Vonnegut), Short Stories of J. Borghes, The Well at the World's End (Morris), The Great Divorce (Lewis), The Man Who was Thursday (Chesterton), Evolution (Stephen Baxter), Rendevous with Rama (Clarke) |