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Saturday, August 30, 2025

The Two Miracles of Materialism

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Metaphysical realism is considered naive these days -- the idea that we really do know reality as it is. Ever since Kant ruined everybody...
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Friday, August 29, 2025

How Did I Get Here?

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By which I mean I AM, which is to say an interior locus of personal subjectivity.  What must the universe be like in order for there to exis...
Thursday, August 28, 2025

A Fruitful Intertwining of Artificial and Real Intelligence

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Andrew Klavan  suggests that the reason why a change of mood " can seem to change reality so completely is that consciousness and matte...
Wednesday, August 27, 2025

Is it Possible that God is Pure Necessity?

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It makes no sense to say that mind is prior to matter. I realize you're just playing devil's advocate, and your assertion may or may...
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Tuesday, August 26, 2025

Blind, Empty, and Simplistic Is No Way to Go Through Life

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Is it even possible that mind could be ontologically prior to matter? Yes, in the sense that the converse is literally unthinkable. For when...
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Monday, August 25, 2025

In Search of the Old Holus-Bolus

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The adverb "holus-bolus" means  all at once or altogether . It's a somewhat humorous or informal term used to describe doing...
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Sunday, August 24, 2025

Inside and Outside the Cosmos

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Can we talk about something other than the cosmos? The cosmos is everything. No it's not. You said so yourself last week:  The Cosmos Is...
Friday, August 22, 2025

Will the Real Cosmos Please Stand Up?

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Yesterday's post touched on two very different meanings of the word "cosmos." In one corner we have Carl Sagan's comparati...
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Thursday, August 21, 2025

The Person: A Cosmic Voyager

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I probably watched the TV show Cosmos -- parts, anyway -- on PBS back in 1980. It was a purt good story at the time, although now it makes ...