Blogs about: Science And Philosophy
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The Origin of the Universe(s)?
Having just done a post on quantum mechanics and particle physics, fields as distant from political science as one can imagine, and whose math I cannot grasp, I tried to resist the temptation to ventu… more →
World in Motion
The Real Sixth Sense - digital meets real life
michiel wrote 1 week ago: While Microsoft is playing with their $10,000 surface table, MIT creates a $300 alternative that doe … more →
The Origin of the Universe(s)?
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Scott Erb wrote 3 months ago: Having just done a post on quantum mechanics and particle physics, fields as distant from political … more →
Unreal Reality
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Scott Erb wrote 3 months ago: I am a political scientist, but often in my spare time I prefer to think about science and philosoph … more →
about me, and you
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Mona wrote 4 months ago: Who is the entity producing this text? Essentially, an abstraction. A concept which, once conceived, … more →
5 breakthrough technologies that will go mainstream in 5 years
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michiel wrote 5 months ago: This is my list of 5 technologies that you probably don’t know about yet, and that will go mai … more →
Automating science itself
michiel wrote 7 months ago: Finding laws of nature is not really a creative process.. It’s merely extracting the rules tha … more →
The Brain and Reality
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Scott Erb wrote 8 months ago: Ever wonder what an ant or a bat experiences as reality? The bat is blind, but uses sonar to give … more →
The Language of God
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Scott Erb wrote 9 months ago: The tower of Pisa …is Mathematics. So thought Galileo Galilei, a devout Catholic who nonethe … more →
Rumi on evolution
tafseerahmed wrote 9 months ago: از جمادی مُردم و نامی شدم — وز نما مُردم بحیوان سرزدم مُردم از حیوانی و آدم شدم — پس چه ترسم کی ز مر … more →
Bein' like Marty: Consequences for Philosophy's Uneasy Relation to Science
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W Dubiel wrote 9 months ago: “… quizzin’ me what it was like before everybody tried to be like Mike” (Th … more →
State of the World
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michiel wrote 9 months ago: If you want to know more about the state of the world, pay a visit to gapminder.org. Yes, that term … more →
Unsurprisingly, the DI gets philosophy all wrong
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glen1davidson wrote 1 year ago: Well, if the Discovery Institute (DI) could get philosophy right, chances are that they would be abl … more →
Virtual presentations and conferences
michiel wrote 1 year ago: The internet makes travel unnecessary… Of course it’s much more fun to actually go to a … more →
Why do people always want more, and keep this merry-go-round spinning?
michiel wrote 1 year ago: Very good. It’s a very real true message. In fact the grown ups are all on a merry go round, a … more →
A Holographic Universe?
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Scott Erb wrote 1 year ago: For years now I’ve been awaiting yesterday morning’s big event: the large hadron collido … more →
Science is about evidence of occurrence, not mere possibility
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glen1davidson wrote 1 year ago: Behe’s lack of scientific acumen is most glaring when he demands evidence of “possibilit … more →
OTOY Video Demo Video
michiel wrote 1 year ago: Yes that is “video” twice in a sentence. What is OTOY? It sounds like a toy store or a g … more →
Spinoza, quantum mechanics and free will
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Scott Erb wrote 1 year ago: Baruch Spinoza had a philosophy that was very complicated and in some ways odd. He rejected the dual … more →
Spiritual dehydration
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Scott Erb wrote 1 year ago: In my entry last week, “Material Saturation” I wrote that we are, as a society, at a poi … more →
