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What is naturalism?
[This was my second post on Preface to Atheism, Aug 23, 2023.] In my first post I talked about my sudden flip to a natural worldview when I was young. I mentioned that I didn’t call what I believed naturalism … Continue reading
Preface to Atheism
[Preface to Atheism is a blog I started on SubStack. What follows is the first post from Aug 18, 2023] In this Substack, I will advocate atheism as entailed by the meta philosophy of naturalism rather than atheism based on … Continue reading
Georges Lemaître & Naturalism as History
Throughout the history of science, the naturalistic turn of mind has been to look for a history for physical stuff. And the supernaturalistic turn of mind has been the opposite. Plato famously excluded a history for the world by postulating … Continue reading
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Muse is the Antidote
My poetic muse has always been an alter-ego, chastising me for being too much in my head, too cerebral. Looking back over the years I can see that my muse has presented a more or less consistent message: life is … Continue reading
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Fallacies of the Naive Observer
Today I’m going to discuss a fallacy common to observers of the physical world (people like us), one which has significant practical importance. I call it the naive observer fallacy, and it goes something like this. (1) Observers bring biases … Continue reading
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Mind is the Brain Improving Itself
Intelligence is being able to see what is right in front of you. Ignorance is looking at the world before you and seeing what you were taught to see. For thousands of years people looked at the night sky and … Continue reading
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Rough Notes about Consciousness
I suspect that no topic has been obfuscated with more nonsense—religious, philosophical or scientific—than consciousness. First, the focus on what consciousness “is” usually starts at the wrong place, at what might be called “high up” complex consciousness, rather than beginning … Continue reading
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Do We Live in a Simulation?
The human brain creates a simulation of the world around us from sensory inputs. This simulation is inside of us, and can be analyzed and known and expanded with supplemental knowledge. But some (actual) scientists are confused. They wonder if … Continue reading
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When Biology Trumps Physics
[The following is a draft that I wrote a good decade ago, never completed. The title reveals that I had ambitious intentions for where my line of thought would go. But, being human, the 20th century morass of “information theory” and … Continue reading
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Is Evolution a Fact?
It drives me crazy (not really, of course) when atheists (and lately even some scientists) assert that evolution is a “fact”. Now, the word “fact” can have various (conflicting) meanings. For example there is a sense in which calling something … Continue reading
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