Tag: Aldous Huxley
Existentialist Science: Darwin as Proto-Absurdist
The existentialist story might arguably start with Charles Darwin and his conception of the chance evolution of life.
Intelligent Design and the Value of Suffering
After she realized she had lost her battle with cancer, my wife Melissa wrote a letter to our children.
About Those “Synthetic Embryos”
I have no problem with this work in mice. But the scientists want to take this technology into human experimentation.
Darwin, Group Think, and Confirmation Bias
How was Darwinian theory, despite its lack of empirical support or even semblance of verisimilitude, able to advance to its present position of orthodoxy?
Can LSD Help Us Understand the Mind–Brain Relationship?
Aldous Huxley noted that LSD “lowers the efficiency of the brain as an instrument for focusing the mind on the problems of life.”