Today’s post is at The Stream: Choose to Read This Article About Research Saying You Don’t Have Free Will. …”Free will could all be an illusion, scientists suggest after study shows choice […]
Dataism is the word coined by Yuval Noah Harari in his essay for an optimistic, practical implementation of Scientism. Just as divine authority was legitimised by religious mythologies, and human authority was […]
See the first post in this series for an explanation and guide of our tour of Summa Contra Gentiles. All posts are under the category SAMT. Previous post. Some interesting consequences about […]
Read Our Intellects Are Not Computers: The Abacus As Brain Part I first. Machines can learn, all right. But they can’t learn like us. Machines cannot apprehend universals, ideas of truth and […]
Physicians long ago abandoned the Hippocratic Oath, for at least the reason that its call for physicians not to cause harm went against the modern acceptance, and even boasting, of killing. Which […]
We’re back on our Edge series of concepts scientists wished more people knew about. Today’s entry is Frank Tipler’s Parallel Universes of Quantum Mechanics. Tipler: In 1957, a Princeton physics graduate student […]
My goodness, there seems to be a lot of cats running around! And a whole lot of empty bags lying about as well. It reminds one of the ‘As I was Going […]
Harvard graduate walks down the street where a 50-lb sack of cement blocks his way. He reaches down to shift it but discovers that despite all his might the bulk won’t budge. […]
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