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Do I Exist?(Does Russia) Part II — Guest Post by Ianto Watt
Read Part I here. So God has already acted. There is no potentiality left in Him, as Aquinas would say. After all, He’s already done everything. There’s nothing left to do, except to cheer on His...
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Vatican Analyzes The Difference Between Humans And Robots
Soon a robot will ask you if you want fries with that. Computer screens already do, in some locales. How does that make you feel? Hungry? That could be taken more than one way. Hungry because you like...
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Summary Against Modern Thought: More On The Possible Intellect
This may be proved in three ways. The first…See the first post in this series for an explanation and guide of our tour of Summa Contra Gentiles. All posts are under the category SAMT. Previous post....
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Summary Against Modern Thought: The Intellect Is Not A Temperament
This may be proved in three ways. The first…See the first post in this series for an explanation and guide of our tour of Summa Contra Gentiles. All posts are under the category SAMT. Previous post....
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Jerry Coyne Doesn’t Have Free Will
Be sure to read the caption. Edge is at it again, asking named persons “What scientific term or concept ought to be more widely known?” Many interesting things to discuss, so consider this the...
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A Coincidence: Coyne Zinged Me Before I Him — Or, The Coyne Fallacy Redux
Ain’t I pretty? After posting yesterday’s article, Jerry Coyne Doesn’t Have Free Will (poor fellow), I immediately saw hits coming to my place from Coyne’s. It turned out that, unbeknownst to me, the...
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Summary Against Modern Thought: The Soul Is Not A Body
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Uncertainty Discussed At Vox Popoli
Vox Day kindly reprinted the review of Uncertainty by Jayne at the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons. Vox also has a copy of the book himself and there may be more discussions on the way....
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Summary Against Modern Thought: The Intellect Is Not The Senses
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Bayesian Statistics Isn’t What You Think
A Logical Probabilist (note the large forehead) explains that the interocitor has three states. Back to our Edge series. Sean Carroll says Bayes’s Theorem should be better known. He outlines the...
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Tipler’s Tipsy Parallel Universes of Quantum Mechanics
Be sure to read the caption. We’re back on our Edge series of concepts scientists wished more people knew about. Today’s entry is Frank Tipler’s Parallel Universes of Quantum Mechanics. Tipler: In...
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Formal Logic And Probability
One of the arguments is that probability does not extend predicate logic, but does extend propositional logic. The concern is that because predicate logic is formal and propositional logic is not, or...
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Summary Against Modern Thought: How An Intellectual Substance Can Be The Form...
This may be proved in three ways. The first…See the first post in this series for an explanation and guide of our tour of Summa Contra Gentiles. All posts are under the category SAMT. Previous post. Be...
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On The Demon Possessed Doll & Little Girl
You might have seen the video of the little girl playing near a doll, a doll which twitches its head without visible promoting. The video switches views and sees the same girl drawing on a table....
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Summary Against Modern Thought: More On Intellects And The Body
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The Circus Is Closed—But Animals Still Don’t Have Rights
You already know the Ringling Brothers & Barnum and Bailey have folded up the Big Tent for the last time, a sad event. Any thoughts we have had about running away to join the circus (a viable...
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Music, God’s Gift to Man–and to Robots? — Guest Post by Bob Kurland
Editor’s note: The original post can be seen at Kurland’s place. A few days ago my wife pointed out a news item announcing a robot that (or who?) can compose a symphony, tailored to uplift the...
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Summary Against Modern Thought: The Intellect Is The Body’s Form
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The Big Bang, Eternal Inflation & Many Worlds
We’re back to our Edge series of ideas scientists wish more people knew about. Today is John C. Mather and the Big Bang. Mather isn’t pleased with popular conceptions. What astronomers actually have...
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDC5wswGnaA I do not understand the human race. It has so little love for creatures with a different face. Treating animals like people is no madness or disgrace. I do...
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