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Your Mind Uploaded to AI Would Not Be You

In death, the immortal mind, whose memories the computer supposedly holds, has moved on. The simulation may be a good one but it is not a surviving self. Read More ›
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The Displacement Fallacy: Evolution’s Shell Game

In a shell game, an operator places a small object, like a pea, under one of three cups and then rapidly shuffles the cups to confuse observers. 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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Digital Evolution and Bohemian Bugs

All software engineers have been burnt by those sneaky “bugs” that manage to get past the defenses. Read More ›

Two Kinds of Science “Skepticism”

Science journalist John Horgan makes the great distinction between skepticism directed at "soft" versus "hard" targets. Read More ›

Here There Be Dragons: The Journalists’ War on Science

They say Republicans are the anti-science party, the uninformed boobs and benighted monkeys, comfortable with and fiercely protective of their own cluelessness? Read More ›

University of California, San Diego Forces All Freshmen To Attend Anti-ID Lecture

Since 1998, Michael Behe, Phillip Johnson, Jonathan Wells, William Dembski, and Paul Nelson have all spoken at the University of California at San Diego (UCSD). Now UCSD is striking back. Tonight, anti-ID philosopher of science Robert Pennock is being paid by UCSD’s Council of Provosts and the Division of Biological Sciences to speak against intelligent design in a lecture that is free and open to the public in UCSD’s RIMAC Arena (which holds about 5000 people). Of course, these groups are all taxpayer-supported. Not only is this free event open to anyone, but TritonLink, the UCSD student website, on its main home-page, reports that Professor Pennock’s lecture is mandatory attendance for all freshmen: “All first-quarter freshmen are required to attend Read More ›

Random Mutation Generator

If you have not seen it already, you will enjoy playing with this random mutation generator. You will see how wonderful the Darwinian process is at taking your text and moving on to ever-greater levels of complexity.

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