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Topic Archive: Science

Hoffman’s Conscious Realism

  POSTED: January 29, 2017
  AUTHOR: Jim Spiegel
  TOPIC(S): Philosophy • Science
 TAG(S): Berkeley • consciousness • Donald Hoffman • Idealism • The Atlantic

Recently I learned of this excellent article in a recent issue of the Atlantic. It is an interview with cognitive scientist Donald Hoffman, who endorses an idealist view of reality—the notion that all that exist are conscious minds and their … Continued

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Hodgepodge

  POSTED: December 22, 2012
  AUTHOR: Jim Spiegel
  TOPIC(S): Cultural Observations • Politics • Science
 TAG(S): gun control • Japanese anime • Politics • relativity theory

1. The Illusion of Time — A few months ago I stumbled on this Nova series “Fabric of the Cosmos,” narrated by Columbia University physicist Brian Greene.  I was transfixed by the second installment in the series entitled “The Illusion … Continued

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Technidolatry

  POSTED: February 28, 2011
  AUTHOR: Jim Spiegel
  TOPIC(S): Science
 TAG(S): artificial intelligence • computer science • idolatry • Time Magazine

A recent Time cover story, entitled “2045: The Year Man Becomes Immortal”, discusses, among other things, the prospect of computer technology providing a means by which humans can achieve eternal life.  The idea is not new, of course, as philosophers … Continued

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Darwin’s Ten Worst Nightmares

  POSTED: October 23, 2009
  AUTHOR: Jim Spiegel
  TOPIC(S): Science
 TAG(S): Darwin • evolution

Since this year is the bicentennial of Charles Darwin’s birth (and also the sesquicentennial of his landmark book The Origin of Species) I thought I’d post something related to the modern champion of evolutionary theory.  While I do believe in … Continued

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