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Finding out you were wrong
What does it feel like to find out you were wrong? Why is doubt discouraged? Why don't we encourage people for changing their mind for good reasons?
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Here's What 'Free Will' Looks Like in Your Brain
Scientists have for the first time watched the human brain making a purely voluntary decision to act. Unlike in brain imaging studies where researchers wat
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Limits of Logic: The Gödel Legacy
Douglas Hofstadter
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Walkers Between Worlds
Throughout history, humans have have believed in, and sometimes hunted for, creatures that are not of this world. How ironic, then, that the modern scientific world has now created its own 'other world'
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On the relativity of perception
by Chris Maser
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The Perfection of the Continuity Equation, Key to the Foundations of Reality
Physicists want equations that connect behaviors directly to the foundations of reality. With the continuity equation, they actually pull it off. By Brendan Cole.
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A Rebel Against Rebellion
Richard Cocks reviews "Conversations with Roger Scruton" by Roger Scruton and Mark Dooley.
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Ten underappreciated philosophers of the Islamic World
The philosophical contribution of Islamic culture often goes unacknowledged, and when it is recognized, it is often reduced to a discussion of Islamic influence on European philosophy, especially in the medieval period. In this timeline, Peter Adamson, author of the History of Philosophy series, highlights ten underappreciated figures of the Islamic world, during and well beyond the medieval era.
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The Concept of ‘Cat Face’
Paul Taylor on machine learning.
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Sean Carroll, Catholicism, & Unfalsifiable Metaphysics
One of the most famous of Thomas Aquinas' arguments is one for a “prime mover” or an “unmoved mover”. The argument itself isn’t really important per-se, it’s actually air tight in terms of premises following to their conclusions. The issue is the Aristotelian metaphysics it assumes and is based on. Suffice it to say, if you’re using the kind of neo-Aristotelian metaphysics favored by modern day Thomists, the conclusion readily follows. What atheists disagree with in terms of the Thomists is the metaphysics they assume.
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Why Science Needs Philosophy: Consciousness and Iconic Memory
One of the main claims of this blog is that a science of consciousness can’t exist without a proper philosophy of consciousness. That may seem a forgone point, but I stumble several times on researchers and authors who undervalue the contribution of philosophy on consciousness topics. I will present here an example that shows how the simplest set of data can’t be effectively understood without a solid theoretical
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Can Atheists Believe In A Valid Moral System?
One of my students took the staunch position that atheists could not possibly have any valid foundation for morality since they don't believe in a god or gods. This statement echoed in my head for quite a while. It wasn't the first time I had pondered the fascinating subject of morality, but this time, I was faced with just how arbitrary it seemed to claim that you have a "more valid" foundation for morality than anyone else.
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The Bridge From Nowhere
How is it possible to get something from nothing? By Amanda Gefter.
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There's a 20%-50% chance we're inside the matrix and reality is just a simulation
Yes, this is a real research note.
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Why panpsychism fails to solve the mystery of consciousness
Is consciousness everywhere? Is it a basic feature of the Universe, at the very heart of the tiniest subatomic particles? Such an idea – panpsychism as it is known – might sound like New Age mysticism, but some hard-nosed analytic philosophers hav...
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America treats its bold revolution as a reliquary
In treating the nation’s founders as holy relics, America forgets they were revolutionaries and risk-takers. By Caroline Winterer.
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If War Can Have Ethics, Wall Street Can, Too
The calls for a “moral economy” should not be dismissed as idealism.
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A Nonlinear History of Time Travel
Births, deaths, and other time travel paradoxes. By James Gleick.
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Can Transcendence Be Taught?
College should prepare students not only for a rich life but also for a meaningful death. By John Kaag and Clancy Martin.
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Material Issue
Reclaiming a living cosmos from the dead-end tradition of Western scientism. By Jackson Lears.
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