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Science is a little bit more than a wonderful way of modelling and predicting; it's a wonderful technical abstraction. I think science is a... →
Thought, like any parasite, cannot exist without a compliant host.
Human spirit is the ability to face the uncertainty of the future with curiosity and optimism. It is the belief that problems can be solved... →
Superstition is the need to view the world in terms of simple cause and effect.
The Idea enters the brain from the outside. It rearranges the furniture to make it more to its liking. It finds other Ideas already in residence, and... →
I respond well to what I read of Immanuel Kant's idea that the world as we see it is absolutely a function of the way our brain works. In the... →
Our world is limited by the machinery we carry. It's very different to the 18th and 19th century Enlightenment scientists who were mostly men of... →
I can't see any great evidence that humans have any ability to access anything other than the material world. Beyond that, who knows, but... →
I like the concept of teenagers and philosophy.
I write with teenagers in mind.
I'm a school teacher, and later on, well past my formal education, I became very interested in science.
The successful Idea travels from mind to mind, claiming new territory, mutating as it goes.
There is a fascination with fear. It grabs our attention.
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