Metaphysics of Science

Now things get complicated. In the representational regions of the brain, sort of a hood right over core structures of… Read More

Our conscious mind gets stuck in computational loops, and keeps handing this information back to our default mode network as… Read More

I have been reading rants on Facebook as if science had innate moral virtue and how horribly irresponsible it is… Read More

Example, a big element of tribal understanding (though one of those vaguely mystical things orthodox scientists are so keen to… Read More

Another example, the old legends of humans talking with animals was seen as absolutely nonsense. More and more, brain size… Read More

So language, and specifically mathematics... This is the long path coming back around to today's intended subject of Benford's Law.… Read More

Is there a paradoxical circumstance here? Culture which enables us to "adapt" actually reduces our adaptive capacities? Exactly. The corrective… Read More

What is Benford's Law? I thought maybe I should get down to that. It's a pattern that emerges in various… Read More

It was formerly believed that your DNA was your destiny. They thought of the DNA structure as being a fixed… Read More

Perhaps a theory I am working on... I have been incubating this explanation for a long time, but it might… Read More