Archives for: "August 2016"
Naturally Enhanced Performance
Just a few days after I was pontificating on the difficulties of defining what it meant to be a "drug free" athlete the headlines at the Olympics have once again swung towards someone who has an "unfair advantage" through no fault of her own.
Categories: Sport, Complexity, Worldview, ----------
Everything Changes
Although I have written many words in this blog (and elsewhere) that express my ideas on assorted subjects it would still be fair to say that my underlying mantra on what it all means is "I don't know" - which perhaps is just as well as it reinforces the purposes of the blog. All of my ideas/thoughts/beliefs are - as far as I am concerned - interim ones which might be superceded tomorrow - or next week - or few years from now - or perhaps even before I finish writing this sentence.
Categories: Philosophical, Complexity, Cognition, Worldview, ----------
More On Making Memories
My musings on making memories was triggered by a reminder of just how limited our life span is. The inevitability of death is something that everyone must acknowledge, our time is most definitely running out from the moment we are born. Its OK - this isn't intended to be a morbid post to the blog - simply a working through of some thoughts related to a heightened awareness of our own mortality.
Categories: Philosophical, Worldview, Health, ----------
Where Does Performance Enhancement End?
One of the things that you can guarantee when it comes to "big" championships like the Olympics is that there will be a few headline hogging drug cheats exposed. At this particular edition of the Games the issue has been made even more high profile (if that is possible) by the recent revelations regarding the fidelity of the testing process in Russia.
Categories: News, Sport, Complexity, Worldview, ----------
