Tag: magic
Science, Scientism, and Magic
The scientific culture of the 19th and early 20th century produced three great wizards — Charles Darwin, Karl Marx, and Sigmund Freud.
Explaining Abstract Thought in Materialist Terms: The Horns of a Dilemma
What an interesting choice of art. What’s up with that? Goya painted other works on the same theme.
Artificial Intelligence as a “Magic Act”
The error is not completely different from imagining that natural selection really can do what creative intelligence — foresight! — can do.
The Law of Zero Magic
The mystique of evolutionism is the idea that natural selection explains everything. In fact, natural selection itself explains nothing.
