Thursday, October 2, 2008

Time to plug

Besides the few people I have mentioned from my past (one), there are a number of other sources of inspiration I would like to take a moment to point out. Most of these people are literary sources. There are of course many others out there, but these are the few that I can recall without hitting my bookshelves. I would also like to note that my ideas in no way reflect their own: 

   

Brain Green: http://www.superstringtheory.com/people/bgreene.html 

Robi Sen: http://www.therobisen.com/blog 

Steven Novella: http://www.theness.com/neurologicablog 

The Nonprophets: http://www.nonprophetsradio.com 

David Hume: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hume 

The Skeptics Guide to The Universe: http://www.theskepticsguide.org 

Karl Popper: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/popper 

Peter Watson: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Watson_(business_writer) 

Richard Dawkins: http://richarddawkins.net 

Sam Harris: http://www.samharris.org 

Benjamin Franklin: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin 

Thomas Jefferson: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Jefferson 

Samuel Clemens: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Twain 

Thomas Hobbes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Hobbes 

Jonathan Glover: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Glover 

   

Yes, I did use Wikipedia as a reference for these people. I don’t do this in papers or anything, but it still gives a good overview of people that would otherwise have no page. All of these people, in one way or another has influenced my thought type. Most of these people have a single thing in common in that they build upon the ideas of others and they think for themselves. I suppose that is really the goal here. I also think a good deal of them are scientists in one fashion or another. They certainly are imbued with the clarity of thought required.  

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