Back in 2014, Lex Bayor and John Figdor had a go at creating a new version of the ten commandments. They did this by organizing a contest where there would be ten - 1000 $ prizes. The contestants had to submit their ten commandments and the reasoning for each of them. They had a panel … Continue reading Eight Suggestions
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A more modern Villa Park I am an Aston Villa fan … well not one those rabid ones. I can recall seeing them four times live and probably seen a professional football match six times live. The first time I saw a football match I was six years old. It was at Villa Park in … Continue reading Aston Villa
I have put this monism blog under religion, but it could have easily fit under free will or other stuff (philosophy). Having said that, interpretations of some religions can be monistic. There are various flavours of monism, eg in opposition to dualism (ie) mind versus matter, good and evil. Some see monism as a priority … Continue reading Monism
Last summer I did an Ancestry DNA test. I did not expect a lot of surprises, in that, the place of my ancestry is relatively a monoculture DNA wise. Unlike the UK where all sorts of DNA is mixed in and I am not just referring to the recent (last 100 years) of immigrants. Having … Continue reading Ancestry
On Wednesday 14th I was listening to a cartoonist, Bruce MacKinnon, talking on CBC Radio about his cartoon of President Trump and Ayatollah Ali Khamenei pointing smoking guns at each with a dead Canadian lying between them. This is the obvious reference to the shooting down of Ukraine International Airlines flight PS752 over Tehran; with … Continue reading Connectivity
Sometimes I can't help thinking people write nonsense about complexity. They ascribe all sorts of supposedly emergent properties to these complex objects; whether these objects be animate or inanimate. Now we take these objects and think of them somehow independent of their environment. In the vernacular, this sort of thinking is useful. It allows for … Continue reading Complexity
The Big Picture Greg on his blog has added a defence for free will and it is based Sean Carroll's book The Big Picture. Now it's almost three years since I read the book, I thought it a really interesting book. Not that I took everything as gospel, and I did not agree with Carroll's … Continue reading Freedom to Choose
In his book Things That Bother Me: Death, Freedom, the Self Etc. Galen Strawson gives some of his fellow naturalists a hard time. The book is a collection of essays and two of them deal with consciousness is some shape or form. The interesting thing is in the second of the two essays Strawson argues … Continue reading Real Naturalism
I have seen someone claim that by definition our senses are an illusion … or at least our perceptions are illusory. This initially might seem an over-the-top claim. But first let's take a look at three common or garden 'illusions'. This is one of favourite illusions. It is motion induced blindness. Get the image to … Continue reading Illusions
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZHp4JLWjNw When I heard of Hillary Clinton's comment on deplorables ... basket of deplorables. Right? They're racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic – Islamophobic – you name it. I thought it a foolish remark. These supposed deplorables have been hit hard by the crash of 2008 and are likely getting their heads above water only now. It … Continue reading Responsibility
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