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Emergence and Irreducible Complexity: A Unified Theory

We are all familiar with the duality — structure and function — from both technology and biology. Read More ›
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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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Enlightened No More: Darwin as Prefiguration of Postmodern Man

Whether we like it or not, Erasmus Darwin’s simple and predictable world is no more, and we now find ourselves subject to a profoundly mysterious cosmos. Read More ›
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As a Platonist, Sternberg Is NOT Out on a Limb by Himself — At All

What I’ve learned since my book came out is that Dr. Sternberg, far from being isolated in his views, is only saying the quiet part out loud. Read More ›
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How Can We Conceive of Perfection When We Never Experience It?

There are two ways we can think of a triangle. One way is to form a mental image, likely based on a triangle we have seen on a piece of paper. Read More ›
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Flannery: What Werner Heisenberg Foresaw

“I think that modern physics has definitely decided in favor of Plato. In fact these smallest units of matter are not physical objects in the ordinary sense." Read More ›
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Looking for Consciousness in All the Wrong Places

If concept cells nestled in the hippocampi were the seat of consciousness, bilateral hippocampal destruction would cause loss of consciousness. It doesn’t. Read More ›
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Biologist Michael Levin: A Farewell to Physicalism

Levin proposes a “radical Platonist view in which some of the causal input into mind and life originates outside the physical world.” Read More ›
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Our Universe Works … Yet Doesn’t Make Sense; How Could That Be?

How can so much uncertainty lie placidly at the basis of our universe but disrupt nothing in particular? We even build better computers because of it. Read More ›
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Richard Dawkins and the Law of Unintended Consequences

The New Atheists’ failure to understand the nuanced way that “ordinary people” think was a profound strategic error. Read More ›

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