Jesse DeLong

constants      of physics—       the speed of light, the absol- ute of gravitational    attraction, the weak & the strong forces of our interactions. If we change any of these by the tiniest of amounts, nothing life-like would’ve ever            emerged: no plants, no atmospheres, no solids, not even the elements except hydrogen & helium, but maybe not […]

Twenty-eight years—most of them spent fumbling with the wrappers of candy bars—have passed before I became curious enough about the brain to find, on the shelves of a Baton Rouge library, a book by Dennett, 20 years old now, which mentions, in passing, a work by Bach, who labored for four years to create and […]