Greece lightning

You probably know that stock markets are booming globally - thanks to Abenomics and Ben and all that.
But currently the best performing stock market is the one in Greece - thanks to austerity and all that, I guess ...



1-month performance of US$ traded country ETFs for Greece (blue), Japan (green) and US (red).
This is no recommendation to buy or sell anything, after all the next EU meeting is already scheduled.

the KK clan

"An important issue in modal logic is whether necessary truths are necessarily necessary ..."
the KK principle

This philosophical problem is of course related to my previous post - "a mental state is luminous iff, roughly, one cannot be in that state without being in a position to know that one is in it".
Btw David Bowie explained it in his latest album ...

wb in wonderland

A few weeks ago I experienced some really strange sensation(s) ... It usually began with a headache and strange fatigue and ended in a weird state of mind, best described as depersonalization. In one case I walked home and all of a sudden it seemed to me as if I was watching a movie, with the background painted rather than being real; In another case I was talking to a colleague and all of a sudden I was watching myself, surprised about the argument I was making. At the same time I had some really bizarre dreams, but I will spare you the details.
As you would expect, I was somewhat frightened by all this and I was ready to schedule an appointment with a doctor. But then I found out, with the help of Google, that my experience could be due to (rare) side effects of Claritin, which I take for my allergies (*). So I went off Loratadine and indeed I have not had those strange symptoms since.

Perhaps this episode explains my recent interest in The Matrix 8-)


(*) I really think this should be better documented; Even if less than 0.1% experience those side effects, it still means that thousands wonder like me what just happened to their reality ...

the three box paradox

"... our setup can give rise to a “Cheshire cat grin” type of situation, in which an atom can apparently be found with certainty in one of the boxes while one of its properties (the angular momentum projection along a specifically chosen axis) appears to be in a different box."
arxiv

Of course it is not really a 'paradox', just very counter-intuitive ...