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| | www.sciencemeetsreligion.org
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| | [AI summary] An essay discussing debates on the nature of scientific progress, defending the reality of advancements in physics, biology, and technology against postmodern critiques and political denialism.
| | aethermug.com
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| | Assumption-digging as ritual
| | tritonstation.com
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| | Given recent developments in the long-running hunt for dark matter and the difficulty interpreting what this means, it seems like a good juncture to re-up* this: The history of science is a decision tree. Vertices appear where we must take one or another branching. Sometimes, we take the wrong road for the right reasons. A...
| | qualiacomputing.com
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| [Epistemic Status: written off the top of my head, thought about it for over a decade] What do we desire for a theory of consciousness? We want it to explain why and how the structure of our experience is computationally relevant. Why would nature bother to wire, not only information per se, but our experiences...