I’ve been listening to a series of lectures by The Teaching Company entitled “Great Ideas of Philosophy,” and in a couple of lectures the Professor identifies a recurring Problem known as the “Brain in a Vat” problem. It has to do with the nature of Experience and the value we place on Events in our …

A short entry this time. I forgot to mention my truly first encounter with the opposite sex, which was very brief. I was about 10 years old. It was summer. I was hanging out at the public swimming pool all the time. Typically there was a girl there named Tandy who went to the same …