Tag: Big Think
Does Science Disprove Free Will? A Physicist Says No
Marcelo Gleiser notes that the mind is not a solar system with strict deterministic laws.
Astrophysicist Ethan Siegel Again Desperately Attempts to Avoid a Cosmic Beginning
If the model were plausible, the level of fine-tuning would represent even greater evidence of design than it was intended to avoid by removing the beginning.
Information as Matter’s “Fifth State” — A Physicist’s Contortion
Dark matter is the unknown substance thought to make up some 27 percent of the universe. It can’t be observed but only theorized.
A New Low for Evolutionary Ethics
Understand that Big Think is not an obscure web journal by and for a lunatic fringe.
Is Information the Basis for the Universe?
Information, understood as formal and final cause, is what makes nature real.