Tag: determinism
Specified Complexity Is All Around Us
A key idea in the theory of ID is specification, or matching a pattern. Specified, complex information is a hallmark of intelligent activity.
On Free Choice, Consider the Compatibilist Option
Jerry Coyne thinks that criminals don’t have a “choice.” (What are those quotation marks doing there?)
Is Free Will an Illusion?
if we are wholly matter, and matter is wholly governed by physical law, there is no room for free will.
Digital Evolution and Bohemian Bugs
All software engineers have been burnt by those sneaky “bugs” that manage to get past the defenses.
Descartes’s Blunder
What is it that we are most sure of? It’s a fundamental question, the object of philosophical analysis for millennia.