Somebody else's drop in the ocean: British artist Jason de Caires Taylor
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Use the collapsible menu on the left to brows, or the search box on the top right to look for key words.
Analysis- is all about human understanding of things,Economics,ScienceandSociety.
Synthesis- is all about human creation, anything we makeArt,Computers,Entrepreneuring, andRobotics.
The World- is about humanity's world, this human mess!
On this website you will now find the work of many others so it isn't just "mydrop in the ocean" any more, in many cases I am just the editor, however some pieces of my work are listed below.
If the top of a page has the word "UNFINISHED" in its first line it means it may be disappointing to read it. It is only there because Google Sites provides no way to hide unfinished work.
Contact Me
This website still has sufficiently few readers that I can respond to corrections, comments, opinions
and most valuable of all criticism and argument. Please send these to:
Motivation
It is an instinctive drive of mine to try to understand and write about what I think I may have understood in the hope that it will prove useful to others. This is what I think is fun. Yes I like thinking not drinking which is getting into your head not out of it. Don't ask me why, I haven't figured it out yet.
Opinions
These are my grounding principles for what I express;
- I am not loyal to any particular opinion or idea other then that observation and reason are the tools of truth.
- It is always my objective to seek out and communicate with people who can substantiate an opposing viewpoint.
It is a personal choice to function this way.
I judge another person by their work not their intellect, i.e. I prefer a person who believes bunk
who does good work than a person who believes the truth who does bad work, and so I do not always try to
undermine a person's faith. Which is why, unlike Richard Dawkins, I am an Atheist who can work constructively
with religious people. (SeeThe Selfish Gene)
for more of my criticism of Dawkins.)
Me
Born in 1961 a natural scientist and engineer more interested as a child by the rusty remains of technology then by the joys of a summer picnic, yet inspired by the simplicity of the sand, the sea and the sun which bring a clarity to life that cannot be surpassed. (Mathematics done in the sand has far more permanence in the mind then that done with paper and ink.)
I could never resist the temptation of analysis or the passion of synthesis I see in science and engineering.
I try to be interested in as little as possible so as to maintain some focus. However in so far as the list on the left is long, I have failed.
Frustration
My frustration with the world is summarised by this video.
YouTube Video