If consciousness is immaterial, a scientific explanation must address and include that fact. The hard problem is impossible if that fact cannot be accepted.
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Dennett may be best remembered for inadvertently helping to reduce the popularity of atheism
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In December, we asked, “Can the White House ‘Mean Girl’” media be reformed?” We were looking at at journalist Mike Cernovich’s comments on the way that the White House press corps controls national political news in the United States: The White House Correspondents Association (WHCA) has the power to control seat assignments and credentialing. When you walk inside the briefing Read More ›
Efforts to jam both feet into time have gone nowhere and are likely to continue to do so.
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The challenge, he argues, is to maintain Christian values while challenging Christian leaders who compromise in order to stay safe and successful.
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Bill C-413, which might criminalize honest scrutiny of extraordinary claims re residential schools, is part of a larger war on the primacy of fact over feelings
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Generally, I found the Facebook fact checkers obtuse. But one recent incident really stands out.
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Seth Dillon notes that the goal of fact-checking isn’t to eliminate misinformation but dissent, to make it impossible to challenge preferred narratives.
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While some think he is merely placating Trump, we may well ask why he should WANT to impose government censorship on the social medium he had built up himself.
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In a September article, readers were scolded for stereotyping cats’ aversion to water.
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Bet you can guess who the Wired staff think is the worst agent of chaos — Elon Musk. But you might not guess why.
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Philosophy prof Jonathan Birch, principal investigator of the Animal Sentience Project at the London School of Economics, has written a book on whether and how animals feel things: The Edge of Sentience (Oxford University Press 2024). It’s not as arcane a topic as it might at first appear. It shows up in new legislation and think tanks. At Amazon, we learn, for example, “In 2021, he led a review for the UK government that shaped the Animal Welfare (Sentience) Act 2022. In 2022-23, he was part of a working group that investigated the question of sentience in AI.” And as Birch told Marc Bekoff at Psychology Today, I’m probably best-known for my work on invertebrate sentience, which is one part Read More ›
A Woke atheist group that values feelings over facts can certainly continue to bash religion. It just can’t pretend to any intellectual integrity while doing so
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The claim that humans “struggle with collective efficiency” is nonsense. They were forbidden to communicate abstract ideas, which is how we solve such problems.
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Was a journal that tries to explain the origin of the unique human mind without any reference to the Mind that created the universe bound to end up here?
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Maybe we need to believe that there is a Mind behind the universe in order to provide guardrails against deeply crazy stuff claiming to be science.
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It is not more “metaphysical” to say that the universe shows apparent evidence of design than to say it does not. The bias in insisting otherwise is evident.
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No, it’s not a “male chauvinist pig” from the Seventies saying this, it is a Woke feminist.
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An absolute monopoly for science on truth conceals a fatal flaw. If scientific inquiry becomes corrupt or useless, we can find help from no other quarter.
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Oxford researchers studied chimpanzee tool use for evidence that chimpanzees really do think a lot like humans. If that were true, it would deepen the mystery.
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