Mnemonic Arts of Blessed Raymond LULL
posted on Apr 7, 2008 - View this thread

Parmenides. "The pre-Socratic philosopher sparked an intellectual revolution that still echoes today. Yet for philosophy and science to continue to progress in the 21st century, we may need to embark on an entirely new cognitive journey ."
posted on Dec 27, 2007 - View this thread

According to this guy, you’re not ultimately morally responsible for choosing whether to snark or not to snark in response to this FPP. A discussion of the philosophical problems surrounding freewill from British Analytic philosopher Galen Strawson. (Oh, and while we’re at it, let’s throw in this unrelated review of Strawson’s latest work on consciousness, just for an extra splash of color.)
posted on May 23, 2007 - View this thread

Douglas Hofstadter says, "What troubles me is the notion that things that touch me at my deepest core -- pieces of music most of all, which I have always taken as direct soul-to-soul messages -- might be effectively produced by mechanisms thousands if not millions of times simpler than the intricate biological machinery that gives rise to a human soul.". That was prompted by his reception to the output of David Cope's project Experiments in Musical Intelligence.
posted on Apr 11, 2006 - View this thread

Can God make a rock so heavy that he could not lift it?
posted on Jan 13, 2006 - View this thread

Nothing is funnier than an academic or scientist explaining humor.
posted on Dec 11, 2005 - View this thread

Gödel and the Nature of Mathematical Truth : A Talk with Verena Huber-Dyson
posted on Jul 29, 2005 - View this thread

Godel's theorems have been used to extrapolate a great many "truths" about the world. Torkel Franzen sets the record straight in his new book Godel's Theorem: An Incomplete Guide to Its Use and Abuse. Read the introduction (PDF). If you want, check out his explanation of the theorems.
posted on Jun 29, 2005 - View this thread