Showing posts with label Science. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Science. Show all posts
Saturday, 6 January 2018

Philosophy & Magical Thinking

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The philosopher R. G Collingwood took magic seriously as something that was inappropriately judged in scientific terms. It was best judged...
Saturday, 30 July 2016

On the Supernatural

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I want to dispute the value of the term 'supernatural' - the perceived non-natural that is not 'at hand', immediately and po...
Sunday, 13 March 2016

Modern Mythologies and the Social

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Joseph Campbell in his Occidental Mythology wrote that "In the long view of the history of mankind, four essential functions of myt...
Sunday, 21 February 2016

Robotics, AI, Sexuality & Power - A Brave New World

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In a somewhat breathless report in the Financial Times on February 14th , Moshe Vardi, computer science professor at Rice University in Tex...
Saturday, 16 January 2016

Omniscience and Big Data as New Religion

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One of the persistent delusions of humanity (taken as the default, though not the inevitable, position of most people who think that they ar...
Saturday, 2 January 2016

On 'Original Sin'

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There are four 'scientific' claims that original sin exists and they are worth noting [1]:- * The Selfish Gene hypothesis stat...
Saturday, 3 October 2015

The Flaw in Thinking Artificial Intelligence Can Solve Our Problems

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I recently knocked out a review of Frank Tipler's 'The Physics of Immortality: Moderm Cosmology, God and the Resurrection of the Dea...
Sunday, 27 September 2015

Frontiers 6 - Precognition

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Can we see the future? Is there any way that we can rely on our perception to predict certainly rather than our reason to extrapolate uncert...
Sunday, 2 August 2015

Further Ruminations on East and West, Science and Religion ...

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There is a difficulty for anyone seeking to engage with the 'Wisdom of the East'. If you think you are just a creature, ultimately,...