Tag: Continuing Series
What About the Actual Data We Have Been Acquiring About Exoplanets?
"Earthlike exoplanets" are a favorite subject of science and popular media reporting.
Understanding Memories: Lovely Metaphors Belong in Songs, Not Science
I’m reminded of a phrase from one of my favorite songwriters, Paul Simon, in “The Boxer”: “I’ve squandered my resistance for a pocket full of mumbles.”
Your Computer Doesn’t Like You
Intelligence, as denoted in "artificial intelligence," corresponds roughly to what Aristotle meant by intellect and will.
Your Computer Can’t Remember a Darned Thing
For materialists, the metaphor of memory for computer storage of electronic representations has become metaphysics.
For Earth-like Planets, You Need the Right Galactic Environment
It could be that for an Earth-like planet to form, the metallicity of its solar and galactic neighborhood needs to be close to that of our early solar system.