Ian’s the host of TPN’s Media Center Podcast and he’s currently at CES in Vegas. And he just got to chat with Bill Gates for the first time. I remember meeting Bill for the first time back in the day. It’s a pretty heady experience if you tell yourself you are standing there chatting with the richest guy in the world and arguably the most successful businessman in history.
Mark Hallett, a researcher with the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, said, “Free will does exist, but it’s a perception, not a power or a driving force. People experience free will. They have the sense they are free.
“The more you scrutinize it, the more you realize you don’t have it,†he said.
That is hardly a new thought. The German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer said, as Einstein paraphrased it, that “a human can very well do what he wants, but cannot will what he wants.â€
From a NYT article entitled “Free Will: Now You Have It, Now You Don’t” which I came across via Scott Adams’ blog.
Dave Wallace aka The Lifekludger, co-host of the Extraordinary Everyday Lives podcast on TPN, joined me for a spot of lunch today. He’s visiting from Adelaide. Dave is an amazing bloke. Spent over half his life in a wheelchair, paralyzed from the shoulders down. And is a serious geek who spend a lot of time in Second Life. Tune in to Dave and The Fang at http://extraordinary.thepodcastnetwork.com.
A short one tonight, talking about some new books I received today. If you don’t know anything about Marcel Proust or Henry Miller, here’s your chance to get yourself educated. I know some of you rely on me to bring you up to speed in the world, so tonight I help you round out your literary world view.
Oh and I announce a new G’Day World promotion – the blog that sends me the most referrals in the month of January will get a $50 Amazon voucher. But you have to register, so I know you are trying. Please use the contact form below with the subject text “Amazon promotion”.
My man Daniel Craig… no I mean Daniel Krause aka Dark Meat aka Ladies Love Dark M joins me on the podcast today to talk about CASINO ROYALE aka James Bond 21.
It’s a long one – an hour and twenty! Almost as long as the film itself and we didn’t spend anywhere NEAR the $150 million they did.
On the show we talk about our reactions to the film, the production costs and current box office returns, the plot, Daniel Craig, Eva Green, Mads Mikkelsen, Caterina Murino, Sir Richard Branson, the producers, the screenwriters, parkour… hell we just don’t know when to quit!
I hope you enjoy it (and live long enough to get to the end).
