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Category Archives: Nature
Thoughts driving home from meeting Richard Dawkins in Christchurch
Attended Richard Dawkins event in Christchurch, and had a short conversation with him at the meet and greet afterwards These are transcriptions from 3 recordings made driving home Saturday morning, while driving home, listening to a lecture on the development … Continue reading
Posted in Ideas, Nature, Our Future, Philosophy, Politics, Uncategorized
Tagged Communication, complexity, Evolution, freedom, future, Philosophy, Politics, understanding
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Quora – fungi in multicellular organisms
Quora – What are fungi in multicellular organisms called? Depends entirely what they are doing there. They can be working cooperatively with the organism, in which case they can be somewhere on the spectrum of symbiotic associations; or they can … Continue reading
Close call – big rock got close
Copied from Spaceweather – 16 April 2018 Near miss by a rock about 100m wide – and we only saw it one day out. With little warning, a relatively large asteroid flew through the Earth-Moon system on April 15th only … Continue reading
Hutton’s Shearwaters on Kaikoura Noticeboard Facebook page
Well done Sabrina. For most of those birds crash landing, it is their first flight, ever. They spend about 3 months in a dark burrow underground, being fed every day or two by a parent returning, but otherwise alone in … Continue reading
Evolution – Altruism
Response to John A. Johnson comment Dawkins has always recognized altruism and has provided explanations for it. Agreed. Richard disliked the title, but his publisher said it would sell, and it did. Selfish gene was the first coherent account I … Continue reading
Free Will – Ted’s version
I’ve been responding to a lot of other people’s definitions of free will lately – here is my own: In my understanding, free will can be very real, and it is rarely (if ever) absolute. The understanding I have of … Continue reading
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Tagged complexity, enlightenment, Evolution, freedom, knowledge, Philosophy, understanding, Wisdom
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Free Will – once again – a problem with Trick’s postulate
Common Intuitions about Free Will (and how it needs to be defined) Hi Trick, If the universe were deterministic in the hard sense, then you would be correct in your deductions. But that does not appear to be the case. … Continue reading
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Tagged complexity, Evolution, freedom, Philosophy, understanding
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