Month: November 2015
Denying the Signature: More on Substance Dualism
Some form of dualism may well be a properly basic belief, justified by the universal human experience.
A Taxonomy of Information
Human intelligence creates stop signs to tell car drivers to stop. Nature uses TGA in the genetic code to tell translation to stop.
Honoring the 41st Anniversary of the Discovery of “Lucy,” Google Offers a Misleading Doodle
As a monument to human evolution, clarifying the mystery of our origins, Lucy falls short.
Are Abstract Thoughts Just Patterns in Our Brains?
First, imagine that I am sitting at my desk looking at my dog Pipa.
Denying the Signature: Of Minds and Causes
Bishop and O’Connor claim that in Darwin’s Doubt, my “analysis assumes that… mind is fundamentally immaterial.”