Some time ago I started reading a Wendy Perriam. 'The 50 minute hour ' I think it was called. I found I just couldn't get into it. Perriam was an author I remember my mum reading, so I thought I'd give her another go with Lying. I believe that Perriam has …

Awful film full of selfish hippies (The Beach, that is, not Akira!)

Oh, poor Tony. Science will never give us Robot cars, maids or lovers. Science only ever provides us with useful things by accident.

I caught the Moral Maze on torture as well and found myself shouting at the radio like a demeted fool. Nobody seemed to get it. It's a moral conundrum with an obvious solution:

If someone hurts someone you love you would willingly, even actively, kill them. This would be an …

After reading the Wikipedia intro I immediately thought in terms of 1s and 0s and that made me think of Fuzzy Logic. Surely at two minutes the lamp is in the process of being swiched on or off and therefore in a third state? I don't quite understand where the …

What sort am I?

Toby asked what I thought of a credit-crunch article in the Telegraph. The key bit for me was:

There is a pure free market position which holds that no financial institution should be bailed out – ever. If this approach was followed, people would factor much more risk into their behaviour …

After reading Luminous, I was pleased when Janos plonked Axiomatic on my desk. I wasn't disappointed. Perhaps Axiomatic is the superior collection? Written in 1995, it's way ahead of its time. The sort of things Egan writes about, free will, the neurological basis for decision making, parallel universes, brain and …

Glad he was a hero for you. I liked his work too, and cant believe he is gone. I loved to read his books and always looked forward to the next one. I grew up reading him.....

NO NO NO NO NO!!! What I said was......

.....if time is infinitely divisible, then you never reach the end point (1 minute), so the issues never arises. ......

I wish I could phrase that answer in a more techy way (like Katherine did), but, well I can't!

As to if …