Two people have a private conversation over coffee at an isolated cabin. They leave and tell two others what they talked about. One believes them, the other disbelieves them. Is either conclusion rational?
What if they also provide an exact transcript of their conversation?
According to the Darwinist common wisdom that has become endemic in academia and is quickly seeping into popular beliefs, our consciousness, all that makes up our minds is a user illusion evolved to pass on our genes. Evolutionary cognitive science consequently makes short work of traditional notion
Setting side the existence question, let's presume some entity we would reasonably label as "God" exists in some fashion. I'd also give the attributes of being a Universal Intellect and Prime Mover, so God holds concepts (such as mathematical Universals) as mental objects within Its thoughts and sus
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Phil and JF use a word from the Twin Peaks mythos, "garmonbozia," to try to understand what it was that the detonation of atomic bomb brought into the world. We use the fictional world of Twin Peaks as a m
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Shedler’s subsequent research and writing has played a significant role in undermining the received wisdom that there’s no hard evidence for psychoanalysis. But it’s undenia
If time is actually an illusion, and everything actually happens simultaneously as I hear said occasionally by those who are brave or foolish enough to venture an opinion, consider this thought.
If this is accurate, there is the possibility that we have already become enlightened and are existing w
"[color=#000000][size=medium][i]Every complex behavior challenges us to identify its origins. How do birds know to migrate south for the winter? How do border collies know t
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