Tractatus Logico-Chocolatus 6 Feb 20136 Feb 2013 1. The world is all that is the taste. 1.1 The world is the totality of flavours, not things. 1.1.1 The world is determined by the totality of flavours, and these being all the flavours. 1.12 For the totality of flavours determines both what is the taste and also all that is not the taste. 1.13 The tastes in experiential space are the world. 1.2 The world divides into individual flavours: sweet, sour, salt and bitter. 1.21 Chocolate is more than the sum of these flavours. 2 What is the taste, the fact, is the existence of elemental flavours. [The rest is left to the reader to fill out as a personal exercise… should take about a day] Chocosophy Humor Tractatus Logico-Chocolatus
Administrative Passing thoughts and miscellany 8 Oct 20118 Oct 2011 First of all it occurs to me that people who expect the Singularity to occur simply do not get the logistic growth curve. I’ll just throw that out there. Second, the Great Migration Back to the Homeland (i.e., my move back to Melbourne) happens this week so I will probably… Read More
Evolution Dissecting a flying pterothingy 26 Mar 2009 It’s true! Dinosaurs still exist. John Conway dissected a Rhamphorhyncus, and drew what he saw, here. I had “dinosaur” in the title but as Chris points out, that’s a bad error, like calling a mammal a turtle. Damn, I’m not having much luck. Not a pteranodon then… Read More
Humor A template for philosophical debates 16 Jul 201216 Jul 2012 [Click through to Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal] Mind, equally popular is this syllogism: If P is true, then my opponent will be sad. I wish my opponent to be sad. Therefore P is true. Read More
But, but: “We are not tribalists, we chocoholists. Heresy is for tribalists. We are universalists who seek the Endarkenment of all.”
Of course. It is a fiction of the hated atomists. Or at best it is just what happens when the other four flavours are combined in a particular ratio. Either way it is not an elemental flavour.
Dear Dr Wilkins – I found your blog via a Wikipedia post about clades. I teach at a community college outside Chicago, and I am (lightly) exposing my students to taxonomy, etc. I personally have only learned about phylogenetics pretty recently. Is there a quick and simple resource you can point me too so I can at least expose my group to this concept? Thank you!
Berkeley has a site that gives a good intro to modern systematics ideas: http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/clad/clad4.html
Chocolatism is a pleasure-induction of cocoa composition. (A cocoa composition is only surpassed by a greater amount of itself.)