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It’s time for a rant.
I am an avid downloader of music that I do not pay for. Only occasionally do I feel even a twinge of guilt about this. I felt such a twinge recently. So, good citizen that I am, I investigated the possibility of actually paying for downloaded music. I found, to my great chagrin, really, that there is… Read More
It's finally out, and it is a lovely little book if I do say so myself. And boy, it seems so much cleverer now that it is bound and formatted. It's too late for Christmas, but all of your philosophical friends and relatives would no doubt appreciate A Dialogue on Consciousness as a New Year's present. Great for birthdays, holidays, and hell, even Fridays. Amazon… Read More
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Fine-Tuning Questioned EmpiricallyTuesday, August 5th, 2008
One of the more interesting arguments for the existence of God claims that our universe is "finely tuned" so that life will emerge. In other words, with only slight variations in the physical constants the universe could not bear life, and the best way to explain the aptness of this universe is that the constants were set by an entity that wished for life to emerge. There are problems with the argument, of course, but the basic empirical premise is usually accepted--that the conditions under which a universe would bear life are rare. An interesting result to be published in The Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, however, questions… Read More
Handey vs. HeideggerMonday, August 4th, 2008
Cliché Reality has a hilarious comparison of quotes from Jack Handey and Martin Heidegger to determine who is the better philosopher. The answer is clear.
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