Tag: Werner Heisenberg
Looking for Consciousness in All the Wrong Places
If concept cells nestled in the hippocampi were the seat of consciousness, bilateral hippocampal destruction would cause loss of consciousness. It doesn’t.
Biologist Michael Levin: A Farewell to Physicalism
Levin proposes a “radical Platonist view in which some of the causal input into mind and life originates outside the physical world.”
Our Universe Works … Yet Doesn’t Make Sense; How Could That Be?
How can so much uncertainty lie placidly at the basis of our universe but disrupt nothing in particular? We even build better computers because of it.
Richard Dawkins and the Law of Unintended Consequences
The New Atheists’ failure to understand the nuanced way that “ordinary people” think was a profound strategic error.
Darwinism as Fact? The Waning of an Historical Myth
Historically the unfathomable subtleties of our terrestrial environment have been viewed as in and of themselves empirical markers for design.