Lori Duff Writes
Ladies and gentlemen, let me introduce you to Schrodinger’s corpse. For those of you unfamiliar with Schrodinger’s cat, in a vastly oversimplified nutshell, Erwin Schrodinger was a quantum mechanist who proposed a thought experiment in which a hypothetical cat is in a box with a hypothetical vial of poison gas. The vial of gas is…
I’ve always been easily startled. I think it’s a function of how deeply engrossed I get in whatever I’m doing. I’m truly not in the room that I’m in, not mentally. Details around me disappear and all I can see is what I’m doing. Sometimes it’s not even what I’m doing, just what I’m thinking. …
Most of the time, I think we should tell the truth. But not always. And, if done correctly, I think you can lie a lot and still consider yourself an honest person. Yeah, I’m doing it. I’m writing an article In Defense of Lying. If you disagree with me and say you don’t lie, well,…