The New Atheists on Morality
If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once. Moreover, there would be nothing immoral then, everything would be permitted. Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov, 1880, p. I, 2, 6…
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Two quotes from David Chalmers express the importance of studying the concept of consciousness. Even when I was studying mathematics, physics, and computer science, it always seemed that the problem of consciousness was about the most interesting problem out there for science to come to grips with.1 I think [consciousness] provides plenty of grounds for…
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For some time I have been a fan of Kyler England. I love her solo work but she has also written and performed with “The Rescues” and most recently has teamed up with former “Rescues” member, Adrianne Gonzalez, to create the duo: “The Fire and the Sea.” Their lyric video, The Ghost in the Machine,…
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Brain Gymnastics
I gave myself a brain workout the other day. A song came on the radio and I thought about who the singer was. His first name made me think of another singer with the same first name and I thought about the second singer’s first and last name; then I thought about songs sung by…
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