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Stuff for Kevin
Kevin has been asking for some reworks of creationist propaganda meme’s, so here is the latest. First, the 2 parts of the creationist meme from https://www.chick.com/products/tract?stk=0055 And the rework… thoughts? And, some prior ones… Continue reading
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The Attention Loop
How social media, cult tactics, and religion converge on cognition, meaning, and mental health Yesterday morning, I went back to my science feed and I got to read Kathryn Hulick’s article “The truth about brain rot, according to science” in… Continue reading
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Where the Extra Goes
On category errors, earnest minds, and the quiet cost of answering the wrong question I posted it with a grin, not a scaffold. “Today’s stupid physics question: If energy is conserved, where does all the ‘extra’ interpretation go when we… Continue reading
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Edges of Nature
On the Words We Use When Reality Feels Slightly Off, Mostly Explained, or Just Plain Misnamed “Etymology is either the world’s most interesting, boring subject, or the world’s most boring, interesting subject.” That was paraphrased by my 11th grade English… Continue reading
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A Biosphere in Fracture
On deep shale, hidden ecosystems, and the shape of early environments I like tardigrades, even to the point of having two stuffed ones from my spouse, and keeping a colony for three years before Covid. They are small enough to… Continue reading
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Some Questions Don’t Survive the Rain
From agnosticism to rejecting the terms of the God debate Ok, this was written on a rare PNW sunny day, but I like the rain allusions, so sue me. Rain has a way of flattening big claims out here. Not… Continue reading
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Crushing Serpents, Keeping Them Alive
Threads Theology and the Long Life of an Adversary Threads is a remarkable engine for half-formed metaphysics. A question flashes by, unburdened by footnotes or patience, and suddenly you are ankle-deep in Augustine without noticing. This one landed with that… Continue reading
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A Posture Against Knowing
Hofstadter’s Diagnosis, Asimov’s Warning, and the Rise of Manufactured Doubt The rain here has a way of pressing thoughts closer together. You notice what people say about knowledge when the light goes flat. I keep returning to Richard Hofstadter, a… Continue reading
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What We Mean When We Say Consciousness
IIT, Orch-OR, and the quiet failure to isolate the subject I keep running into Integrated Information Theory (IIT) the way you run into tideflats at low tide in the Pacific Northwest. It is there, exposed, oddly structured, and somehow both… Continue reading
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The Back‑Stab as Strategy
Why following trends after damage doesn’t reset the ledger I have a regular news feed, curated for “evil people doing evil to other evil people”. I created it mostly because I like comic books, and sometimes life imitates comics and… Continue reading
