William Zeitler's Music Box

Month: April 2020

  • Who Breathes Whom?

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    Apparently we have varying degrees of control of the dimensions of our lives. For example, I can control my breathing — by holding my breath. But not for long. Rather than "I'm breathing my breath", maybe a better way to look at that is "My breath is breathing me!" After all, who ultimately is in…

  • Toccata from Organ Symphony No. 5, Charles-Marie Widor

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    For Coronavirus Easter 2020. Dedicated to all those on the front-lines of Covid-19. On YouTube.

  • William’s Razor

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    In philosophy there's the idea of Ockham's Razor, attributed to English William of Ockham (c. 1287–1347), which states that given two solutions to a problem, if they have the same outcomes but one is simpler than the other, choose the simpler. I use a similar approach to spiritual questions: if an idea or doctrine makes…

  • Amazing Grace (Video)

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    On glass armonica and harp/keyboard, on YouTube.

  • Solving for X

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    There is a sense in which our usual math education misrepresents how math is done in the real world of science and engineering. In high school algebra in particular we 'solve for x', and the one-and-only correct answer can be found in the back of the book. In math, "solving for X" like this is…