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I'm starting David Sehat's The Myth of American Religious Freedom. With religious conservatives owning the Republican Party and billionaires wanting to own it, we progressive Yanks are having exciting times. Also, Ian Toll's Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific 1941-1942 is keeping this...

Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin's Mutual Aid: a factor of evolution.

If a hen and a half can lay an egg and a third in a day and a quarter, how long does a wooden-legged parrot take to kick the seeds out of a dill pickle?

Fact - (You know what it is.) Fict - Not a fact.

By definition.

Soon after WW2, I saw (but did not read) a book titled Hitler: The Psychopathic God. After I did some hard ball politics I started wondering if there are any books about correlations between political power and socio/psychopathy. I have concluded that post traumatic stress, at least its...

K, do you write sci-fi?

Saying it's not, Underseer, doesn't make it not. Like inflation, dark matter and dark energy are consequences of an assumption. If they were supported by evidence, BB believers would be screaming with joy.

I felt no need to use the word "magic" in this discussion. I therefore did not use it. Given the following: 1) the seemingly unlimited faith of Big Bang cosmologists in their ex nihilo conclusion, 2) their seemingly unlimited supply of hypotheses, 3) their decades of failure or refusal to submit...

By "elements", do you mean carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, calcium, etc? Given those understandings, who has claimed to understand how memory functions? Then, in the manner of thesis, antithesis, synthesis, how the brain melds seemingly unrelated memories and forms what has not previously existed...

I used to write code, so I ask "Does anyone want to bet?" The first IF in the above code requires a signal from one of a series of subroutines to visual sensors, each of which recognizes a specific danger and, with few false positives and NO false negatives, generates that signal for a...

I consider your comment the most insightful on this thread, seyorni. As I read it I realized that a machine that mimics the actions of various life forms would have to recognize a threat to its continued existence--its survival--and would have to be able to escape or remove that threat. Then I...

4321lynx, I once accepted that philosophers had everything logically thought out. Then someone pointed out that no matter where philosophers start their questioning, they stop when they get to where they are. So now I'm wondering if they'll ever have it all thought out.

Science is a method of reasoning and experimentation.... No experimentation, no science.

I'm struggling here. .... Don't quit.

Nice insight, Speakpigeon. Big Bangers have been conceiving stuff for decades; conceiving a falsifiable future theory couldn't have taken but a few moments.

A current example of their enthusiasm, or of their rejecting falsification? State a hypothesis about the claimed overlap between science and philosophy and you will understand. In all those words I read that you don't know BB history. I do, and I feel no obligation to teach you that history.

Bomb#20, I'm not deducing that they have rejected falsification; I'm inducing it from their history of refusing to do as other scientists do. In short their product is not science. If they depend on the hypothesis for their income, I understand their enthusiasm.

By several Urban Dictionary definitions being a dork is okay, and for science students even a compliment.

DBT from the land down under, clicking on your screen name reveals no discussion begun by you about cosmology. If replying to your query to your satisfaction requires me to explain the Big Bang model, I will say little more than that falsifying Alan Guth's Inflation is not possible. That few...