Tag: Gaia
Can a Chemical Preparation Display Cognition? This Chemist Says Yes
Addy Pross, associated with the evolutionary “Third Way” community, states his guiding principles up front.
Astrobiologists Offer an “Information-Based View of the Biosphere”
Even if their estimates need to be revised by a terabase or two someday, they have made it clear that our biosphere is awash in information.
SETI: Inventing Minds to Find Minds
SETI has a new technique to recognize patterns in gobs of data: invent intelligences to search for extraterrestrial intelligence that might be artificial.
Darwin’s Goddess: Natural Selection as “Divine Surrogate”
When parsed carefully, the metaphorical structure of Darwin’s argumentation emerges as little less than a periphrastic description of the goddess Natura.
New Atheism: A Shipwreck of Fools
New Atheism is dead. It was conceptually dead from birth, but now it’s stopped twitching.