I just put up a philosophy project at Strange Groupings. It's for anyone to participate in, so if you like to contribute to philosophical undertakings, this one is for you.

Well, I finally got my book printed and we are having a release party ( Read more... )

(Working Flying Machine) - 0 = Large
(Working Flying Machine) - (Non-Working Flying Machine) = 1 second

After the In Search Of... Michael decided it was time to get the band going for real. Because Adrian didn't really have time to practice with us, he was left out of the plan. So, Phil, Michael and I started trying to figure out how we were going to play these songs with just three people ( Read more... )

There are so many ways we can get it wrong. First of all, we can be misinformed, presented with falsehoods in place of facts, misled. Second, even if we are presented with the truth, our perceptions can be mistaken: perceiving is so much guesswork and we don't even know how to practice. Third, our memories can fail us, we can remember things ( Read more... )

The only way we know anything about the world is through experimental evidence. Different experiments produce different results. Sometimes we understand how these results can be compared, but many times we don't. It is thought that sometimes the results cannot be compared in any meaningful way ( Read more... )

It's registered, and there is something there, though it isn't much.

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Since the beginning of the theory of evolution, there has always been an attitude that we can guess what sorts of qualities will be favoured by evolution. It has been assumed that things that are stronger, faster and smarter are favoured. It has been assumed that things that are more selfish will be favoured.

In The Universe in a Single Atom the ( Read more... )

Ellen Patricia Edmonds Whyte was born a little after noon today. She's a little less than a thirtieth of my weight, and my hair is longer than her ( Read more... )

So I've been feeling terrible for a few weeks now. What is really unusual is not that I feel really bad, but that I have been getting a lot of writing done during that same time. Normally when I feel bad I don't really do much of anything. But I've really been cranking out the manifesto recently, and my goal of having a finished draft by the ( Read more... )