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The Riddle of the Universe and Its Solution

Short story written by Christopher Cherniak appearing in the 1981 book "The Mind's I". It describes a research project in computer science which includes content that produces catatonia in anyone w...
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  • jata published this 03/06/2009
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Determinism, Metaphysics, and Me, Myself, and I

I wonder if it is precisely this "internal experience," this "consciousness [of] certain existing relationships," that most naturalists fear?
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  • freeassemblage published this 02/03/2009
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The Paradox of Altruism

My honours thesis on the "paradox of the evolution of altruism". In particular, can memetics offer anything to the standard evolutionary account?
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  • Theo Clark published this 01/10/2009
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Dennett, Daniel - Consciousness: How Much is That in Real Money? (2001)

Does intrinsic phenomenological "stuff", qualia really exist?
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  • stampit published this 09/19/2008
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The Naturalistic Existence of Free Will, Soul, and Ego

The view of an active will that is free of coercion whether it is coercion by other men or by nature, satisfies "the metaphysical requirement on being responsible for one's action. [ ] But the sign...
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  • freeassemblage published this 08/29/2008
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On Free Will, the Soul, and the Single Intelligible Object

We are left in entanglements of competing ideas, until another thinker tells us we don't have any free will anyway, nothing really matters, we are dust in the wind. And so we see the failure of cul...
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  • freeassemblage published this 08/27/2008
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Memes, Free Will, Strong Naturalism, and Toilet Paper

Daniel Dennett, Susan Blackmore, and the irrational notion of "memes" as some sort of biological yet sociolocial counterpart to genetics, which at times somehow "make us" resort to acts of cultural...
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  • freeassemblage published this 08/26/2008
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Objections from an Eminent Naturalist

Tom Clark's critiques of Ayn Rand's egoism and compassion as compared with his own humanist compassion, with my own criticism of Clark's interpretations.
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  • freeassemblage published this 08/21/2008
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The Loss of Secularism in Naturalism, Part 1

Naturalism versus realist theism in academia and in the public realm.
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  • freeassemblage published this 08/11/2008
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Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon

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  • manwithoutqualities published this 08/02/2008
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Sweet Dreams: Philosophical Obstacles to a Science of Consciousness.

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  • manwithoutqualities published this 08/02/2008
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Top 20 Public Intellectuals

This power point presentation on "The World's Top 20 Public Intellectuals" organized by the magazines Foreign Policy and Prospect.FOREIGN POLICY (US )and Prospect(UK) will publish the results of th...
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  • zuhairalik published this 07/17/2008
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