Brian Cox Proves Why Scientists Should Never Be Asked Questions About The Soul
Celebrity physicist Brian Cox said he thinks science has shown men do not have souls. According to the Express, he said on the Joe Rogan show that there is “no measurable evidence […]
View ArticleClassical Statistics Has Outlived Its Usefulness: Here’s The Fix
A PDF of this article may be downloaded here. This article is a precis of Uncertainty. Opening Act Patient walks into the doctor and says, “Doc, I saw that new ad. The […]
View ArticleWhy Moldbug/Yarvin/Alexander’s Bayesian Rationality Fails
Scott Alexander, late of Slate Star Codex, and New York Times doxee, is the subject of Curtis Yarvin nee Moldbug’s latest. Rather, Alexander’s (and Moldbug’s? see postscript) Bayesian rationality is....
View ArticleIs A Material Bearer of Consciousness Intelligible? Part 2 — Guest Post by...
See Part I here. In this essay, I will summarize and expound more on the “divisible parts problem” in materialism and why the concept of the soul (or ‘mental substance’) avoids this […]
View ArticleDear Quacks & Experts: Your Loss Function Is Not Our Loss Function
Note to the colleague who wrote me. I lost your email! You asked excellent questions about the post Classical Statistics Has Outlived Its Usefulness: Here’s The Fix, which I meant to answer, […]
View ArticleA Simple Proof Mathematics Is Discovered And Not Invented
This came up in an email thread, but for the life of me I can’t find it. Since this is the second email (thread) from a colleague I have lost in as […]
View ArticleCognitive Bayes & Rationality: Why Theoretical Explanations Charging People...
Fun quiz time! This is some data: x = c(0, 1, 0, 1, 1, 0, 1, 1, 0, 1). Something caused that data to be. I know what it is, but you […]
View ArticleDo Most People Enter Philosophy Already Atheist?
I am now only months behind in answering emails. I have a string of excellent questions from readers that I will try to get to at weeks’ end. From reader S: “I […]
View ArticleWe Know Our Son Is Our Daughter: A Mini-Play In One Act
Say, Jesse, how ya been? Step in any more poop on the golden streets of Frisco? “Very funny. You know, that’s awfully close to being racist.” That so? What can I do […]
View ArticleHow A Science Becomes THE Science
Our main concern is what has become of science, now often called by those who control it The Science. This is, as mentioned, the Cult of Science. Members are easy to spot. […]
View ArticleWolfgang Smith’s Vision Of Oneness — Guest Post by Ianto Watt
We were talking this morning about the latest insanity when she said ‘I hate all these damn politicians!’ I answered, saying that she had to quit imagining that ‘politicians’ control anything, at […]
View ArticleWhy We Live Forever
Anon reader query: I believe you are a Christian apologist. I am a theist but have issues seeing a reason to believe in an afterlife. Do you have any reasons to believe […]
View ArticleThe First Cause is a Trinity: No More, No Less — Guest Post by Oldavid
The purpose of this essay is to provide a very simple “lowbrow” refutation of Modernism’s “neo- pantheism” using concepts intelligible to even the most unsophisticated pragmatic and sane mind. The...
View ArticleHung Jury: The Verdict On Uncertainty
This invited paper (which I forgot to post!) appeared in the festschrift for Hung T. Nguyen, previously at New Mexico State University and now at Chiang Mai University, to celebrate his entry […]
View ArticleOn Demonic Knowledge
Here is a thread worth discussing: Technology and Demons a helios thread pic.twitter.com/73LYraEoFb — heli?s (@helioslogos) May 29, 2021 The main points the gentleman makes are these: “All technology...
View Article“Thomism” is Invalid: A Proof by Contradiction — Guest Post by John Kelleher
Briggs: My rebuttal is in the comments. For centuries, a welter of Christian, Jewish, and Islamic commentators, with nary a whimper from their “common sense,” dutifully repeated Aristotle’s statement...
View ArticleWigner’s Friend Didn’t Invite Him To The Party
From reader Caleb Hansen comes this email: I hemorrhaged brain cells while reading this article from “Interesting Engineering” and thought to share it with you. [link to article] The experts get so […]
View ArticleThe Problem With Ethical Egoism — Guest Post by The Cranky Professor
Ethical egoism is the position that says that one ought to value oneself above others and that one ought to always act with the aim of benefiting oneself. Ethical egoism also holds […]
View ArticleMore Proof Hypothesis Testing Is Wrong & Why The Predictive Method Is The...
Here it is, friends, the one complete universal simple function, the only function you will ever need to fit any—I said any—dataset x. And all it takes is one—I said one—parameter! . […]
View ArticleWhy Everything You Believe Is Wrong w/ Dr. WM Briggs — Podcast
I was on Pat Flynn’s podcast last week, during which he kindly interviewed me on the book that is shocking the nation, Everything You Believe Is Wrong (paperback, kindle). Once it is […]
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