The logic flaw with the AI sim universe is that it is a more complex explanation for our existence than is necessary to account for what we perceive.
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A gambler would be wise to bet on eliminative materialism collapsing before panpsychism, which has its roots much deeper in the history of the mind.
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Longtermism — making decisions based on assumptions about a far distant future where everything might be different — makes no sense.
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The question of how to recognize a discovery without any criterion for recognition turned out to be Meno’s Paradox, from Plato’s dialogues.
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The fact is genres carry a philosophical worldview; they can’t help it
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The challenge, moving on, is that better scholarship means listening to those who challenge conventional ideas instead of serially editing them.
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We now await an army of predominantly middle-aged, bearded male philosophy graduates, out of work for the past 20 years, raising their wrists, thus pointing their fingers to the sky as they make the journey for an interview in Silicon Valley.
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At one time, it was the less well-informed people who trusted science less. But repeated episodes like the Covid Crazy will mean that the better informed people will trust less.
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Siegel’s essay at Big Think can have one very desirable result: It is a good, though unwitting, summary of attitudes that must change if public trust in science is to be improved.
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If nature’s beginning has no explanation, the door is left open to embracing unexplained occurrences anywhere in nature, undermining the practice of science.
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If being a scientist means that one must refuse to consider the evidence for design, it’s no wonder if many are looking for alternatives.
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Explainaways protect the system from unwanted evidence by ignoring or dismissing it. But when the weight of such evidence grows, they stop sounding persuasive.
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What these speculations point to is the way new findings have destroyed classical materialism. Materialism isn’t so much dying out as breaking up.
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Shermer’s coverage of issues like the design inference and irreducible complexity is embarrassingly shallow.
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Materialist theories intended to explain away NDEs need only sound plausible and scientific; they need not enlighten. A new one will be along shortly anyway.
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At last, the end of materialism escapes the lecture room; it becomes a story about real people in real time in the midst of a civilizational struggle.
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Initially, many scientists felt that non-locality or “action at a distance” was too spooky to be correct. But it is correct.
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A downloadable audio file is available from Humanize of an interview with Olivier Bonnassies, author with Michel-Yves Bolloré of God: the Science, the Evidence (2025).
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We seem a long way now from the once-dominant science view of eliminative materialism in which even human consciousness was not considered real.
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Science is incompatible with the onslaught of post-modernism. A major rift in biology may be looming straight ahead.
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