. . . My true love gave to me a book on pop metaphysics.<\/p>\n
Yes, I read Jim Holt’s Why Does the World Exist?<\/em><\/a>\u00a0over the weekend. \u00a0It’s light stuff: A journalist \u2500 though a more-than-usually intelligent one \u2500 talks to philosophers and physicists with interesting opinions on the title question.<\/p>\n Precisely halfway through, though \u2500 pp. 150-153 \u2500 the author deftly inserts a personal story guaranteed to tug the heart-strings of dog lovers. \u00a0My wife, who is of that breed, and not the least bit interested in metaphysics, actually cried when I read it to her. \u00a0AND the dog story manages to include a curious theorem about prime numbers!<\/p>\n Altogether a pleasant holiday-weekend read.<\/p>\n So far as the title question is concerned, there is not much of a conclusion. How could there be?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" . . . My true love gave to me a book on pop metaphysics. Yes, I read Jim Holt’s Why Does the World Exist?\u00a0over the weekend. \u00a0It’s light stuff: A journalist \u2500 though a more-than-usually intelligent one \u2500 talks to … Continue reading