Author: estebanmv
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Secular demonology
One of my favorite books that I read last year is Jimena Canales’ “Bedeviled: a shadow history of demons in science”. It deals with several allegories that have been useful in scientific thinking through its history. Starting from Descartes’ evil genius (is it science though?) going through Laplace’s intelligence, Maxwell’s demon and several other variations…
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What’s in a name?
So, why does this blog have this name? Is it because of the Spanish Inquisition? The answer is something perhaps more expected. We love in this blog the action of asking and thinking, in general, with freedom. In reality this blog has this name because of two of Jorge Luis Borges’ essay books: Inquisiciones &…
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First post!
Hello there ramblers of the world wide web! I’m pleased that you chose to come to this humble corner to enlight yourselves! I will upload some lines that have the objective of unscrambling a bit the infinite complexes that are presented to my eyes. I could have done it in HTML and forget about the…