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Monthly Archives March 2011

Objective and subjective reality; perspectivism

Nietzsche rejects the idea of an objective reality. He appears to give a generative status to the faculty of interpretation, in effect saying that the subject creates the world through her interpretations. Simultaneously, he champions the “intellectual conscience” and the value of scientific method and inquiry. How to make sense of this apparent contradiction? It […]

Posted 31 March 2011 † johan § Philosophy ‡ Comments (3) ° Tagged: ,

Japan earthquake: 17 March

Six days have passed since the fateful earthquake and tsunami of 11 March. I’m still staying in Tokyo, and unlike a lot of the foreigners here, I don’t feel that there is any immediate danger to my person. Life goes on: Yesterday I had a few drinks with my friend. A lot of places were […]

Posted 17 March 2011 † johan § Life ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: ,

Japan earthquake: situation as of today

I thought I would write a quick summary of the situation following the huge earthquake in Touhoku, as I understand it, possibly with more updates to follow. 1. I am fine, and there is no immediate danger to me personally. When the quake occurred, I was in Sapporo, and I came back to Tokyo on […]

Posted 15 March 2011 † johan § Life ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

JTronic, a programming game

Now for something quite different from the philosophical entries I’ve been writing recently. We finally got the time to release the game “JTron” on Sourceforge. It is there under its new name Jtronic. This game is designed for programming competitions; participants program an agent that plays the game by obtaining information about its environment and […]

Posted 03 March 2011 † johan § Computer science § Software development ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,