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My good friend Sean Carroll took a lot of flak recently for answering this year's Edge question, "What scientific idea is ready for retirement?," with "Falsifiability", and for using string theory and the multiverse as examples of why science needs to break out of its narrow Popperian cage. For more, seethis blog post of Sean's,...
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[AI summary] The provided text is a collection of various academic and philosophical works, including journal articles, essays, and book preprints, covering topics such as cosmology, the philosophy of science, the anthropic principle, and the fine-tuning argument. It includes discussions on the structure of the universe, the nature of time, and the role of consciousness in science. There are also mentions of specific authors and their contributions to these fields, as well as some critiques of Bayesian reasoning and anthropic arguments. The text also contains some personal reflections and opinions on current scientific and philosophical debates.
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One of the important lessons oflast Tuesday's debate about string theory is that if I'm going to talk about theories that do or don't predict things, I'd better be very clear about what's a theory? what's a scientific theory expected to do? what's a prediction? On Thursday I asked my readers if they felt misled...
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| | www.biointelligence-explosion.com

Do biological minds have a future?
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