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Intelligent Design Multiverse

Michael Egnor on why we don’t live in a multiverse

Egnor: The problem is, to make their claim credible, [Novella and Goff] must show that there actually are localities in the universe in which the laws of physics differ in a way that would make fine tuning likely by chance.

Posted on February 28, 2021 Author News Comment(0)
Cosmology Intelligent Design Mind Naturalism

Jerry Coyne berates panpsychists and tackles the hard problem of consciousness

So did Coyne not give Goff the right of reply? Apparently, he would need a beaker of antacid to read the guy’s book…

Posted on January 6, 2020January 6, 2020 Author News Comments(2)
Intelligent Design Mind Naturalism Philosophy Science

Michael Egnor sympathizes with people who think the universe is conscious

Michaael Egnor: There is no doubt that consciousness is a fundamental property of animal and human existence. As philosopher Philip Goff notes, a philosophy that cannot plausibly account for it cannot be correct.

Posted on December 30, 2019December 30, 2019 Author News Comments(4)
Intelligent Design Mind Naturalism

Late stage materialism?: Panpsychism (your coffee mug is conscious) sounds crazy but…

If you believe that nature is all there is and you can’t otherwise explain the mind, the mind must be part of nature and therefore electrons are conscious. Unless you want to say that the mind is an illusion.

Posted on September 1, 2019September 1, 2019 Author News Comments(6)

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