A recent comment by President Obama on the Jay Leno show exemplifies the basic philosophical error of his presidency, and a central reason why Americans make so many reasonable people…
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An old philosophical canard refers to ‘the ghost in the machine’—consciousness in the brain. Philosophers don’t believe in ghosts, but most sure do believe in machines.
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Meditations – If the situation with Russia gets any worse, millennials may start building bomb shelters again. As the New York Times says, “The dispute over Mr. Snowden is less a singular…
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Black holes have become synonymous with man-made darkness, vortices sucking people into an abyss of disorder and despair from which there is no escape. But cosmically, and perhaps comically, black…
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An explanation, however cogent, of how humans came to operate in opposition to nature, from which Homo sapiens arose like all other life, can’t change the explained. But a new…
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Seven Asian young men, dripping wet from just having been in the creek, walk slowly along the narrow path that parallels the stream. I’ve never been to Southeast Asia, but…
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In America at least, we are still in the ‘new toy’ phase of high technology. Every new gadget that comes out receives oohs and aahs in the media, with the…
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In the deeply battered and bereaved central African nation of the Democratic Republic of Congo, the United Nations has formed an “intervention brigade” that’s taking proactive measures against rebel groups.…