It’s not so clear that simple complexity can produce anything. What is the organizing principle? If there is a goal, how does it come to exist?
Month: September 2019
Amazon’s Alexa is testing out crowdsourcing
How did that work out at Wikipedia?
80-year-old problem around irrational numbers solved by new proof
Scientific American: ” At 44 pages of dense, technical mathematics, even leading mathematical minds need time to wrap their heads around the paper. The community, however, seems optimistic. “
Rob Sheldon on why astronomers believe in dark matter
“Most, if not all the hype you read, is looking for more and more exotic particles, all the while ignoring mundane macroscopic things like comets and asteroids.”
New: Another philosopher openly dumps Darwinism, cites its acceptance of deception
Budziszewski is onto something here. In a Darwinian universe, there is no reason not to lie to achieve a survival goal. In the traditional universe, classically assumed to exist by most human civilizations, morality is intrinsic to the nature of the conscious entities of the universe.
New edition of Aeschliman’s Restoration of Man challenges scientism again
But isn’t science on a downward trajectory now anyway? Never mind the multiverse nonsense. What about the war on science and the war on math?
St George Mivart, early Darwin doubter (1827–1900), rethought
Mivart was one of those respectable non-Darwinian paleontologists who got buried in the tide of Darwinism. We are asked to note a fairly recent discussion of his contributions to paleontology.
Battle of Britain Day, Sunday, Sept 15, 1940 + 79 years
Today marks the 79th anniversary by date and day, of “the thirteen hours that saved Britain” (and the world): Again, food for thought to awaken us to sobering lessons of history. END
The growth of the Internet, 1990 – 2019
Of general interest — and especially observe the rise of China, India and Nigeria: Food for thought. END PS: Jawa points to some interesting points of data with images worth highlighting. First, number of sites (where approx. 200 mn are regularly active): Likewise, it is noted by tekeye that “[d]espite there being over 1.5 billion […]
What about claims that robots can become spiritual?
Merritt promptly converts the hypothetical question about salvatin for aliens—which depends, of course, on the assumption that Martians are beings much like ourselves—into: Are you there, God? It’s I, robot.
Ed Feser on the delusion that computers are intelligent
”As Smith observes, a computer can be programmed to detect instances of the word “betrayal” in scanned texts, but it lacks the concept of betrayal.”
Ancient human group as a “cold case” nearly half a million years ago?
This would be a great murder mystery film, so long as someone other than Hollywood made it.
New evidence found for the asteroid that deep-sixed the dinosaurs
It’s certainly valuable new information. The outstanding puzzle has always been, why were all dinosaurs killed off but not all mammals or reptiles?
Is the universe two billion years younger than we think?
If that’s true, then the idea that Darwinism (purely random mutations that survive or not explain the awesomely complex life forms we are engulfed in) is even less plausible.
Did the neural pattern that showed that there is no free will turn out to be noise?
If it was just noise, you may not hear that any time soon from the textbook mill.