Tagged “science”
- The Primacy of the Scientific Method: Why Empirical Rigor Is the Only Path to Knowledge
- Religions Did Not Evolve, They Merely Survived
- Human Intelligence Is Probably on the Lower Rungs of the Ladder
- Rationality Is the Exception: Humans Were Not Built to Think
- There Is No Such Thing as the "Appearance of Design"
- Philosophy and the Scientific Revolution: The Failure of Ambiguity
- Word Embeddings and the Arbitrariness of the Sign
- Wittgenstein Is to Word Embeddings What Alchemy Is to Chemistry
- Philosophy: Anti Education
- The Limits of Understanding: Do the Social Sciences Actually Explain Anything?
- Heritability and the Discomfort That Follows It
- Mathematics Is More Imaginative Than Any Mythology
- Your Morality Is Mostly Reputation Management
- Free Will Is the Last Consoling Story
- The Self Is a Useful Illusion
- Introspection Is a Press Secretary, Not a President
- Why Theology Has Never Discovered Anything
- Prediction Is the Real Magic
- The Anthropocentric Conceit and the Long Demotion
- The Engineers Pay for Everyone's Fantasies
- The Imagination of Science Dwarfs the Imagination of Fiction
- The Mind Is the Brain, and Pretending Otherwise Is a Special Pleading
- Neurotheology: When God Is a Brain State
- What the Prayer Studies Actually Found
- What Brain Damage Tells Us About the Soul
- Why Won't God Heal Amputees?
- Unfalsifiability Is Not a Strength
- Religions Behave Like Memes, Not Revelations
- The "God of the Gaps" and Scientific Progress
- The University Does Not Produce Non-Conformists, and Here Is the Checklist
- There Is No Such Thing as the Supernatural
- Christianity Is Not the Bedrock of Science, and the Argument for It Falls Apart on the Word Law
- The Singularity Breaks Ideologies
- Consciousness Is Probably Not Binary
- There Are Only Two Levers on Human Behaviour, and We Can Pull One
- Free-Floating Rationales: Why Nobody Wanted the Policy You Are Living Under
- Plato's Cave Has No Exit, and Science Says So Openly
- Precision Falls as You Climb the Ladder of the Sciences
- A Field With Traditions Is Confessing Something
- What Physics Can Teach the Fields That Are Not Physics
- If Existential Risk Is What Matters, Direct Democracy Is Not Optional
- Why Truth-Finding Rejects Democracy but Politics Requires It
- Political Science Is Not a Science Because Its Biggest Truths Cannot Be Said
- Big Pharma Is Paid to Treat the People Who Would Have Recovered Anyway
- Biology Proves Hierarchy Is Optional
- Large Events Come From Stored Tension, and Direct Democracy Releases It Early
- Consciousness May Be the Override Switch on a Crude Emotional Calculator
- Pain Is the Price of Being the CEO
- We Want Purposes That Evolution Did Not Give Us
- Companies Should Declare the Philosophy They Depend On
- Rich and Poor Are Becoming Different Species
- Are We Becoming More Connected to Reality, or Less?
- The Definition of Good Will Not Hold Still
- Beauty Is Not Truth — It Is an Artifact of Our Brain Size
- Why Philosophy Is in Such a Dismal State
- Understanding Is Compression