The programme was quite interesting, maybe you can check it out on I player. I was only part listening while doing other things. The main story was about a mathematician who towards the end of the 19th century declared that, if we knew the exact position of every electron in the universe, then there must be an equation to predict the future positions of all electrons, thereby predicting the future and proving free will doesn't exist. The theory was validated by many leading scientists of the time, although all agreed in the theory, all also knew such a mathematical problem could never be solved.
From their first album Airconditioning released in 1970. Airconditining was the first ever picture vinyl. Unfortunately the technique for producing coloured vinyl discs had not been perfected, so only 10,000 were produced due to high levels of crackle on playing. From then on the album was produced in regular black vinyl. I've still got a copy of the coloured vinyl, possibly a collectors item.
There was a man from New York Such garbage he did talk To make matters worse, he made others curse and even drove some to drink. Then just when you think, he's been thrown into klink He's back with another link.
Ultimate Spinach.....Ballad of the Hip Death Godess.
Psychedelic Rock band but I suppose they'd have to be with a name like that and a song named like that. Formed in 67, they were Boston's answer to the West Coast hippy movement. I still have this album and used to spend many 'hazy' hours drifting away listening to it.....
I've read that loneliness affects people more if they're not content with or dislike themselves. I guess it stands to reason. I mean who would want to spend so much time with someone they dislike?
I was referring to those who find a great love for life from a place that puts them in what others would consider an extremely dangerous situation. I've found many times in my life I feel most alive when I've just overcome the crux (hardest part of a climb) on a serious route, of even below it when I know retreat is impossible and I have to overcome it. Or when I'm faced with a steep descent on skis or mountain bike. Paradoxically these are the times, when facing such danger, that a safe place, a place where total clarity, complete awareness and no fear is to be found and I'm far from alone in that observation.
"It’s the parallels between climbing and life that fascinate me. The chance to explore inwardly, to understand who I am, where my limits lie and how I can live more and become more."
Sophie Radcliffe
"I would say that the need to climb comes from that tough, lonely place of searching for your dignity. You know, that place – where we actually choose to confront our own weaknesses and fears, where we rebel against the terror of death – is really about dignity. That’s why alpinism is not just the act of ascending a mountain, but also inwardly of ascending above your self.”
– Voytek Kurtyka from an interview in Alpinist #43, Summer 2013)
"The pleasure of risk is in the control needed to ride it with assurance so that what appears dangerous to the outsider is, to the participant, simply a matter of intelligence, skill, intuition, coordination… in a word, experience. Climbing in particular, is a paradoxically intellectual pastime, but with this difference: you have to think with your body. Every move has to be worked out in terms of playing chess with your body. If I make a mistake the consequences are immediate, obvious, embarrassing, and possibly painful. For a brief period I am directly responsible for my actions. In that beautiful, silent, world of mountains, it seems to me worth a little risk.”
– A. Alvarez
"What advantages do we hope to gain (from climbing mountains)? Naturally, there is the pleasure we get from the climbing process itself and from our victories, but as well as the delights of exercise in a mountain environment, there is also the process, coming every time as a surprise, of self-discovery deepening a little further with every climb."
Gaston Rebuffat (from The Mont Blanc Massif: The Hundred Finest Routes)
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RE: Do you believe in free will
Yes I think it was.