Life Without a Net
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Why Doesn’t Arguing Scientifically Work?
Here’s a truism we’re all familiar with: The wiser we get, the more we realize how little we know. It’s especially true of scientific investigation and education. More importantly, it’s a foundational difference between religion and science. The hallmark of science is its malleability. When the data changes, the hypotheses change. The best scientific thinkers are … Continue reading
Jump!
My father loved to parachute. Give him a free afternoon and a plane, and he’d find a way to jump out of it. He loved the exhilaration, the adrenalin, the feeling of freedom. And there was the anticipation. He loved liftoff and the slight jump in his stomach when there was nothing holding him to the … Continue reading
Doubt vs Doubt
I love discovering new conflations. Or rather, I love discovering that there’s a conflation being bandied about that I hadn’t noticed before. You see, I believe that a substantial number of disagreements, misunderstandings, and in general, a lot of the problems in the world, are caused by conflations. There are two common ways in … Continue reading
The Evolution of Mind
One of the things that’s very tricky about trying to understand the human mind is that we cannot easily remove ourselves from our own perspective. We experience our own existence, and because of that, we often make unjustified assumptions about it. One of the goals of evolutionary psychologists is to explain elements of the human … Continue reading
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