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Car theory
Think of your car (if you have one). It is a car as long as you can drive it. But if it breaks down, rusts or is destroyed in a crash? Or pressed into a lump of metal in a scrap press or molten in a...
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Who in space needs cars?
(Rebloged from the “Blog of Tsish”. Tsish is an extraterestial friend of mine from outer space. Look for Tsish’s other contributions in my blog and my ABOUT page. First published March 2009) Your...
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The Dragons’s Breath
Listen to the noises of the city. The noises of the motors, the machines. The buzzing of the electric devices. The tires on the tarmac. The chatter of the people, the humming of the planes. Listen to...
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Pavements
There is a lot of snow on the pavement here now. A few days ago, when the snow was not yet there, I made some interesting observations: you can date the age of a pavement by the number of chewing gum...
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Reflexive Traffic Jams
You drive on a highway, and the traffic is dense, nearly a traffic jam. You notice that the cars on the next lane are overtaking you while your own lane is slow. You see a gap, take the opportunity...
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The Philosophy of Cars
Regular readers of my blog may have notice that there are some recurring topics, especially the concepts of creativity, incompleteness, and as-if-constructions. What do I mean by these terms, and how...
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On the Philosophy of Taxi Driving
If you enter a taxi and tell the driver where you want to go, you can just lean back and relax. The driver will do the rest. He will decide a route to go and drive along that route. He will take care...
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