#philosophy
# science
Raymond Tallis has a list of scathing criticisms aimed at physics and neurology. It would sure help his points if he knew what he was talking about...
# tech
Ted Kaczynski's technophobic manifesto lives on and its ideas found an appreciative audience.
# tech
A philosopher turns transhumanism into a parade of horrors on loan from dystopian sci-fi movies.
# oddities
Even a cursory glance at post-modernism shows that it's basically just trendy nonsense. Emphasis on nonsense.
# tech
The problem with John Searle's Chinese Room thought experiment is that its premise is woefully outdated in computer science terms.
# tech
Philosopher Nick Bostrom is still barking up the same, fundamentally wrong tree of emergent super-intelligence.
# science
According to the finest minds Templeton could assembly, science is for lazy chumps. Aesthetics and theology is where all the hard work really is.
# science
What does it mean to be real? An awkward introductions to scientific mass solipsism.
# science
Revisiting the "if you believe in science, you're doing it wrong" debate with an epistemological bent.
# science
At what point do considering the limits of our knowledge and different ways of understanding turn into pointless navel-gazing?
# science
A group of scientists seems convinced that humans have no free will solely because everything we do can be explained in the language of chemical and electrical signals.
# science
As a loud and proud New Agnostic, Ron Rosenbaum doesn't just not know how the universe came to be, he doesn't want to know what we've found out so far.
# evolution
Deepak Chopra's fluffy quantum creationist woo has a new imitator and he's ready to disappoint readers with a buzzword salad of an essay.
# science
Michael Ruse seems to be angling for some of that sweet, sweet Templeton money by talking out of both sides of his mouth. But mostly the side that slams science and atheists...
# politics
Professor Massimo Pigliucci is trying to make a case for accommodating believers railing against science and fact-based education and discourse with some very flimsy arguments...
