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“Homelessness” Meets the Simulation Theory

"As the late podcaster and 'Dilbert' cartoonist Scott Adams used to say, it was as if the Simulation was 'winking at us.'" Read More ›
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A Surprise Conversation About, Well, Everything

As I walked out of the theater after the movie, I heard a familiar voice. I smiled as I realized it was our colleague Jay Richards. Read More ›
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Meyer, Kestenbaum: An Interfaith Conversation

At one point, Shabbos Kestenbaum recounts an observation about personalities in the Bible who fall asleep and wake up. Read More ›
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A Goldilocks Universe, Designed for Us: New Film in Theaters on April 30

As philosopher Timothy McGrew puts it, we live in a universe “bearing everywhere the fingerprints of its Creator.” Read More ›
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Capture the essence of collective consciousness through digital connectivity by visualizing it in a dynamic and visually striking manner from a worms-eye view Create a design that symbolizes
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Conscious AI, You Say? Here Are Six Models of Consciousness

Integrated Information Theory (IIT) is a mathematically founded emergence model. Michael Egnor and I recently published a paper critiquing IIT. Read More ›
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Physicist: Why the “Alien Simulation” Hypothesis Is Bunk

Assuming that the regression does not continue endlessly, only the First Simulator is real. But then, why do any simulators even bother? Read More ›
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MIT’s Rizwan Virk on Simulation Theory, AKA Intelligent Design

Egnor: “If we are living in a computer simulation, we couldn’t think to ask the question.” Read More ›
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Scott Adams: Intelligent Design (Of a Sort!) Is “Close to 100 Percent” Certain

Notice once again that you don’t have to be a religious believer to see through the charade that evolutionary theory has got everything all figured out. Read More ›
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How Naturalism Rots Science from the Head Down

The prevalence of, for example, fake physics, shows that we are in the midst of a philosophical decline. Read More ›
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Robert Wright Asks: Can Evolution Have a Higher Purpose?

He describes an interview with evolutionist William Hamilton, who developed the theory of kin selection. Read More ›

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