Engineer, Philosopher, Writer, and host of @RealAtheology. Ardent realist about everything except Theism and The Self. In my view, God and "I" are the problem.
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Joined May 2021
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In case you missed it, here is the recent debate I had on creation vs. evolution. I'll be releasing it soon as an episode of @RealAtheology too.
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The one and only Victor Borge. He was hilarious with his antics and extremely talented.
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The plagiarism epidemic is out of control! New evidence indicates comedian Shane Gillis cribbed his controversial bit about women's attire at the gym from Plato's Republic!
This is subjective but … Name three PERFECT movies. No argument. No explanation. Just three flicks you think are perfect. Here's mine:
No Country for Old Men
Spirited Away
Back to the Future
It "ultimately matters" to the people you would murder or save even if God did not exist. Adding or removing God from the picture makes no difference to the value of our intentions or the consequences of our acts.
Because Hal Jordan’s duplicate is a construct, complete with agency, cognition, and consciousness, #Lanterns and #JamesGunn’s wider DC Universe are committed to a materialist theory of mind. In this essay…
Another reminder that the familiar story of logical positivism’s demise is largely a myth. Its verificationist criterion failed, but its broader empiricist, naturalistic, and anti-metaphysical project survives in analytic philosophy.
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Today I learned about the All Souls examination, which is reputed to be the hardest exam in the world.
To even be considered, you need to have a degree from, or be a current graduate student of Oxford.
Hundreds of people sit and only two people pass every year.
Attached is last year's general exam.
Before I saw it, I wondered, how hard could it be.
Well, it turns out…it's "Defend ghosting.", "Does a pope matter?", and "Is body language a language?" hard:
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Jordan Howard Sobel masterfully demonstrated that strong versions of the PSR lead to modal collapse, and attempts to appeal to God's free-will/choice as a means of explanation don't resolve the brute facts inherent in theistic explanations. See below:
