The more the merrier

This past week I was very fortunate to be rejoined in my blogging effort by two new contributors of note: my brother Florent, who will be writing about-well I don't actually know what he will be writing about and that's the point. Florent always has an amazing ability to surprise me, so I'm hoping readers will appreciate his undoubtedly wacky sense of humour.

Beside Florent and myself my old friend Masaki Hirama will be writing on all sorts of philosophical subjects, including quantum mechanics, which he is now interested in getting into. His perspective will be that of a talented dancing, ice-skating, competitive-swimming offbeat philosopher. To me Masaki has this essential quality that he's at least as much allergic to school and academics as myself, which always makes for people with a different perspective on life and just about everything. One cannot be a good philosopher-or scientist-I think by being merely good at doing what one is being told to do. Masaki-san in this respect is a true original, who should have much of interest to talk about on this blog.

Thanks to both of you for joining the team!