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Yet another experiment showing that conscious “decisions” are made unconsciously, and in advance « Why Evolution Is True
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Why Evolution Is True. Laquo; Atheist “church”: cat worship. Yet another experiment showing that conscious “decisions” are made unconsciously, and in advance. In the last few years, neuroscience experiments have shown that some “conscious decisions” are actually made in the brain. The actor is conscious of them: brain-scanning techniques can predict not only. A binary decision will be made, but. Nevertheless, the neuroscience experiments are beginning to refute the classic notion of. Nevertheless, I thin...
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“We’re not that kind of place”: Purdue (and the University of Chicago) stand up for free speech « Why Evolution Is True
https://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2015/05/16/were-not-that-kind-of-place-purdue-and-the-university-of-chicago-stand-up-for-free-speech
Why Evolution Is True. Laquo; Rebecca Goldstein explains the Enlightenment. Sunday: Hili dialogue (and lagniappe). 8220;We’re not that kind of place”: Purdue (and the University of Chicago) stand up for free speech. I am being inundated with reports of censorship on American college campuses (and some British ones, too). The perpetrators, it seems, are largely student groups rather than university administrators, although all too often administrators are complicit in stifling free speech. 8220;It is for ...
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The Singular Universe and the Reality of Time – Scientia Salon
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Philosophy, Science, and all interesting things in between. The Singular Universe and the Reality of Time. The Singular Universe and the Reality of Time. March 24, 2015. Bull; ( 69. I have devoted a serious amount of time to reading the new book by Roberto Mangabeira Unger and Lee Smolin, The Singular Universe and the Reality of Time: A Proposal In Natural Philosophy. This strikes me as exactly right, and makes new sense of a number of books I have read (and perhaps of some I have written? By Geoffrey Mi...
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Fantastic and plastic mimicry in a tropical vine « Why Evolution Is True
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Why Evolution Is True. Laquo; Caturday felids: cafes and furniture. Alain de Botton, master patronizer, ruins the Rijksmuseum. Fantastic and plastic mimicry in a tropical vine. Well if this doesn’t beat all! There are flowers that mimic insects, and insects that mimic flowers, and even plants that mimic stones (. The article describing this, in press in. Full reference and link to abstract below; the paper is behind a paywall though judicious inquiry might yield a copy), shows that the neotropical vine,.
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The false dichotomy of Islamophobia – Scientia Salon
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Philosophy, Science, and all interesting things in between. The false dichotomy of Islamophobia. The false dichotomy of Islamophobia. July 27, 2015. Bull; ( 79. It is easy to find stark examples of people defending what appear to be two irreconcilable positions about how to view Islam in a post-9/11 world. For the sake of discussion, I will bypass pundits and other pseudo-intellectuals, and use instead two comedians as representative of the contrasting positions: Jon Stewart [3] and Bill Maher [4]. It wo...
