Philosophy – Page 55 – William M. Briggs

Summary Against Modern Thought: Our Nature And Possible Intellect

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. We're still…

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Summary Against Modern Thought: Our Intellect Is Not A Separate Substance

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. We have…

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Musk’s Matrix Is Malodorous

"Elon Musk has said that there is only a 'one in billions' chance that we're not living in a computer simulation." Since all probability is conditional on the assumed premises,…

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Summary Against Modern Thought: Man Has But One Soul

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. We are…

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Stream: Won’t Somebody Please Rescue The Poor Tradinistas Slaving Away As Baristas?

Today's post is at the Stream Won't Somebody Please Rescue The Poor Tradinistas Slaving Away As Baristas? My article is part of a series at Stream on the attempted return…

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Why Is It Okay To Eat Pigs And Not Dogs? Science Does Not Have The Answer

Opening sentence of the abstract in the peer-reviewed paper "When Meat Gets Personal, Animals' Minds Matter Less: Motivated Use of Intelligence Information in Judgments of Moral Standing" in Social Psychological…

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Summary Against Modern Thought: Plato On The Soul

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. The ghost…

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Summary Against Modern Thought: How Our Intellects & Brains Interact

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. All right,…

Johnno on AI Cannot Hallucinate Nor LieMay 6, 2025
Like Uncle Mike, I propose rethinking of our naming schemes like Artificial Dementia instead of Artificial Intelligence, and instead of…
Johnno on Class 48: What Is A Model?May 6, 2025
What is a model? A miserable pile of secret assumptions.
Gene Smallpene on Reproducibility Crises Will Be Forever With Us Until We Abandon Classical StatisticsMay 6, 2025
So all those times women said I had a small p they were complimenting me as very scientific.
Robert Arvanitis on AI Cannot Hallucinate Nor LieMay 6, 2025
What is the age of reason for a human cub, perhaps seven? And that takes 84 months of direct, unbroken…
Charly on AI Cannot Hallucinate Nor LieMay 5, 2025
When Deep Seek made the big hoopla recently, I asked it: " Is climate change a hoax?" I thought the…