Philosophy & Ethics

Does Intelligence Exist Within The Laws Of Physics?

Can it be possible that the atoms simply ‘know’ what to do as they interact with other atoms and molecules? Do they have any degree of consciousness or self-awareness like animals do? Or, are they like plants? ...

Blog Post - Ayad Gharbawi - Oct 2 2009 - 11:30am

Voids of Vision And Mind = Constituents of Final Physical Matter

What is the essence of matter? We can keep going on trying to find out the constituents of particles that make matter and that is certainly an interesting investigative path.   We have quarks and leptons and the list goes on. What is the final make up of m ...

Blog Post - Ayad Gharbawi - Oct 3 2009 - 12:32pm

'Who' Produces Dreams In The Mind?

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

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?

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

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

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

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

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