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A Game Theoretical Analysis of Sports When I was growing up in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, I used to play soccer at school. It was wild. The school was in the middle of the city, so the field wasn’t large. The ball was often kicked off the field, ending up on a roof or in the busy street. The field was made of concrete. The injuries were often brutal. The concrete acted like a grater when it hit our legs and knees. I had some gnarly injuries back in those days. A philosopher playing soccer (Monty...

Why Einstein Was Right About Quantum Physics And What He Missed All our understanding of the universe rests on a set of assumptions about the nature of reality and on theories that interpret reality in light of those assumptions. These theories describe the universal laws that govern the universe. Physicalism is perhaps the classic assumption that even gives rise to the name of the discipline that studies the universe, namely physics. Metaphysics, on the other hand, goes further. It takes the...

The Tao is something that can never be reached. Therefore, nobody can become a taoist master. The only mastery there is is mastery over oneself. Only through mastery over oneself can one achieve mastery over anything else. But certainly not the Tao. The Tao is not something that can be understood; it is only something that can be experienced. If you don't understand the Tao, you can't have mastery over it. The Tao always has mastery over you. Except the Tao is not something that dominates....