New Additions to the Neighborhood

Well, I suppose that, given the date of my first and last post, no one will accuse me of writing too much. But now that I'm sort of retired, I hope I'll write much more. It's been so long since I posted that I want to just note the new places...mostly restaurants and cafes....that have shown up in our neighborhood.

At the top of the list, for me, are Quince and Zazou's. Within a couple of blocks of each other, they compliment each other, foodwise and ambience wise. Quince has a somewhat more extensive menu, is pleasantly appointed and decorated. Room for art on the walls, which the owner, Shareen, changes periodically. Try everything on the menu, if you're around often, but don't miss one of the best burgers, with some of the best fries, in Berkeley. It ranks up there with the likes of the burgers you can eat at The Meal Ticket & at Saul's. Daily 7 to 2:30, closed M's.

Zazou and his pleasant wife, Marianna, have made fast friends with the local community in record time!

Don Quixote (Picasso)

Don Quixote (Picasso)

Observations on just about everything....: Italians Gone Bad

Observations on just about everything....: Italians Gone Bad

Truth & Reality

For some reason, I was thinking about theories of truth this morning & recalled Gettier's paper, which was introduced to me by our professor in my epistemology course. Apparently, Gettier won a master's degree on the basis of his paper, since the reasoning was so important in philosophy at the time,  causing problems for B Russel's "four tests of truth." http://www.ditext.com/gettier/gettier.html

I think the idea of truth was floating around in  my head because of a recent profile of Anton Zeilinger. Actually, Zellinger was addressing the question of reality more than that of truth, and a question that he puts to philosophers is why must they keep looking for some "hidden reality" rather than just accepting their observations? But, if they did, wouldn't Zelinger say that they're not making the correct observations? And that perhaps, he, Zelinger, is, which would entail the notion that only he, or perhaps other quanum  physicists as well, have the tools to observe reality?

Does this make sense, or is a false conundrum of some kind?

An interesting aside: in the same proile, op cit, Zellinger says that he believes that one when teleportation can be practically done, quanum physics will have  the ability to create encryption that could never be broken ("quantum computing").

Zellinger and colleagues have successfully transported a separated photon some ninety miles.

Beam me up, Scottie!