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Welcome. My name is Lincoln, and I am interested in science, religion, humans, geography, nature, and the interaction of all of the above with humans.

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• Ancient and modern buildings (2022-10-03)
• Physical time versus subjective time (2021-03-01)

  Though we use the same word for physical, measured time and our subjective experience of time, I think they are distinct.

• Thoughts on "The Tacit Dimension" by Michael Polanyi (2021-01-05)

  This short book is whirlwind read on the topics of knowledge and representation, consciousness, biology, complex systems and even society.

• Prestigious institutions as tone setters (2020-12-31)

  People look to prestigious or "top" universities, publications, companies or countries as a proxy for the state of affairs in a given domain. This doesn't mean these are necessarily the best institutions by any particular metric.

• Biology's complexity problem (2020-08-01)

  An attempt to honestly assess our current understanding of biology through an analogy.