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Free Will Objectivism Fail: Two Mathematicians Demonstrate that Ayn Rand’s Philosophy is Incoherent
At ScienceNews.org is a troubling piece reporting that two highly acclaimed Princeton mathematicians, John Conway and Simon Kochen, have mathematically demonstrated the following: if humans can actually choose what to observe (or not observe) in a particular sort of physics experiment involving particle spin, then the … Continue reading
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Tagged atheism, Ayn Rand, consciousness, determinism, free will, idealism, materialism, math, philosophy, physics, science, T.S. Eliot
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A Pretty Good Math Joke
I remembered a math joke this morning that I haven’t thought of in a long time. Two mathematicians, both 30 years old, married to one another, are talking over coffee. The husband says to his wife: When I’m 60, I’m trading … Continue reading
What Is The Universe? And What Should We Be Doing In It?
My guess is that the universe may be the mind of God calculating—then presenting the sums, before the witness of consciousness, in four dimensions (height, width, depth, and time). The universe, as it were, is the ones and zeroes made flesh; God’s search … Continue reading
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Tagged Dionysus, gandhi, love, Martin Luther King, math, physics, the mind of god, the universe, Tolstoy, wine
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Harper’s Index Has Been Catalogued, and is Now a Searchable Data Base!
How cool is this? Harper’s Magazine has made its popular Index searchable! You can now go to the Harper’s Index page here, type in, say, “evolution” or “Walt Whitman,” and find suprising and curious little stats about them. Sometimes you might even … Continue reading
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Tagged diversion, evolution, fun, harper's magazine, life, math, pleasure, statistics, the Internet, thoreau, Whitman
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Counting Ants—or Ants Counting?
A bizarre story from National Public Radio. Desert ants appear to count their steps from nest to food source, and then count their way back again! Yes, you read that right. Some ants count. Here’s the link to the story: … Continue reading
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Tagged ants, biology, desert, evolution, experiments, intelligent design, math, music, nature, numbers, science
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