Philosophy & Ethics
- 'Who' Produces Dreams In The Mind?
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I have discussed in a previous paper, (see: Unknown Mental Entities- ume) how a person can for no reason whatsoever, move his arm. I asked: ‘ who’ ordered that arm to be moved? Now since Observer (Ob) wasn’t aware of this event (Ev1), then some Unknown M ...
Blog Post - Ayad Gharbawi - Oct 5 2009 - 2:07am
- Considering Free Will: The Role Of Choices
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In previous articles we examine how the brain behaved detrimistically and also how training and indoctrination would affect the information stored. In considering choices an important distinction needs to be made to avoid confusing "choices" with ...
Article - Gerhard Adam - Oct 6 2009 - 8:32am
- A King Of Righteousness For The 21st Century?
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Recent correspondence directed me to the fact that there is a Philosophy section in Scientific Blogging. This is something I have kept away from, since my view of the subject follows the Pooh-Goethe paradigm [1]. However, I have just read In The Beginning ...
Article - Robert H Olley - Oct 6 2009 - 10:42am
- Considering Free Will: Moral Responsibility
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In the last article we considered the formation of choices as providing a set of predetermined responses to various situations. It is this phase of data gathering and assessment that sets the groundwork for our moral responsibility. Specifically it is err ...
Article - Gerhard Adam - Oct 6 2009 - 8:31am
- An Epiphany About Computational Biology
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I don't hate computational biology, but I've got my issues with the way the field is often practiced. Most of my complaints boil down to this: if a computational biologist is not contributing to our understanding of biology, and not contributing ...
Article - Michael White - Oct 11 2009 - 7:42pm
- Studies on Reality
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The Constituents of the Mind, (com), as I have stated previously, are composed of several attributes which we have neatly written down. However, we now need to discuss further this study (See article, ‘ Constituents of the Mind’ (com)). It needs to be said ...
Blog Post - Ayad Gharbawi - Oct 12 2009 - 11:00am
- Counterproductive Western Nepotism
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The Domain of Morality Illustrates Religious Nepotism and Nepotistic Religiousness. (The Domain is something that I have touched upon in my other posts, for those of you who have read my work, I apologise for repeating myself. If you have an understanding ...
Blog Post - Brian Taylor - Oct 14 2009 - 11:53am
- Studies on Reality: Changing Faces in One Face
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Blog Post - Ayad Gharbawi - Oct 16 2009 - 5:47am
- Shameful XXIst Century Crusades
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Mariano Crociata: a name, a promise. The general secretary of CEI (the Italian Episcopal Conference) secures a spot in the front page of Italian newspapers today by declaring that pharmacists in Italy should be allowed to object to the distribution of phar ...
Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Oct 23 2009 - 11:23am
- On The Scope Of Skeptical Inquiry
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There has been much discussion lately on this blog and elsewhere about the relationships among skepticism, atheism, and politics. ...
Article - Massimo Pigliucci - Oct 26 2009 - 11:10pm
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