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l33tminion) wrote2004-07-08 08:09 pm
l33tminion) wrote2004-07-08 08:09 pm
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Today's Preordained Entry
I had an interesting debate about free will today. I've thought a lot about the subject in the past, and my conclusion is that free will does not exist, but that people are unable to not believe in it. Fortunately, even if free will does not exist, the illusion of free will serves the same practical purpose. Never stop thinking that you are able to choose.
Today was mostly uneventful. I made more progress on my image completion work, but its still a long way from done. I feel proficient with MATLAB now, although I still don't fully understand the theoretical component of what I am working on.
In the afternoon, the group visited the Garden of Science (another link), the World's only fully outdoor science museum, located right next to the "village" where we are staying. It was a lot of fun, and I recommend that you visit if you are ever in Rehovot. The Weizmann House, which we visited on our initial tour of the campus, is also good if you are interested in that sort of thing (I sort of am, but I didn't enjoy it as much because I had already seen far to much of that in Boston with my family).
Tomorrow, we travel to the North of Israel to the Sea of Galilee and the surrounding area. I don't know whether I'll have Internet access there, but I'll post again when I can.
Only two days remain before my birthday.
Two magic decks I worked on today: Big Affinity and Tempting Whispers
Today was mostly uneventful. I made more progress on my image completion work, but its still a long way from done. I feel proficient with MATLAB now, although I still don't fully understand the theoretical component of what I am working on.
In the afternoon, the group visited the Garden of Science (another link), the World's only fully outdoor science museum, located right next to the "village" where we are staying. It was a lot of fun, and I recommend that you visit if you are ever in Rehovot. The Weizmann House, which we visited on our initial tour of the campus, is also good if you are interested in that sort of thing (I sort of am, but I didn't enjoy it as much because I had already seen far to much of that in Boston with my family).
Tomorrow, we travel to the North of Israel to the Sea of Galilee and the surrounding area. I don't know whether I'll have Internet access there, but I'll post again when I can.
Only two days remain before my birthday.
Two magic decks I worked on today: Big Affinity and Tempting Whispers
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(That's "Happy Birthday!" in Japanese, if you didn't guess. See, whenever I don't know what to say, I start speaking in Japanese so people don't notice. It works unless I'm getting my Emilys confused. Long parentheticals also work, but get boring (unless they're nested!).)
Oh, and just to play Wakanda's advocate, if everything's predestined, it doesn't matter if you stop believing you can make choices, and you couldn't help it even if it did matter.
Vale,
A Xavō
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