Tag Archives: science

Quantum biology

Posted on January 31, 2018 by

Life on the Edge: The Coming of Age of Quantum Biology Revisited Came back to this thread by a round about way, and read it again. What you see as consciousness, I see as systems. Cells know where they are … Continue reading →

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Free Will again – updated 21 Dec

Posted on December 1, 2017 by

A Response to a Blog: This Atheist Believes in Free Will Trick Slattery’s Blog has a 500 char limit that I only encountered after writing 10,600 characters – so my response is here, and only a link to it there … Continue reading →

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Nature of Science

Posted on October 31, 2017 by

Nobel award for gravity waves Nature of science Science always involves hypothesis, conjecture, competing claims about properties, creation of elegant experiments to distinguish between claims; creation of ever more abstract interpretive frames within which to make some sort of model, … Continue reading →

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Foundations of Logic -knowledge, truth, science

Posted on August 29, 2017 by

Foundations of Logic thread On a more GENERAL level: can science aspire to be a type of activity that pursues KNOWLEDGE (and that also ACQUIRES it reasonably often), and, at the same time, accept that its claims and theories are … Continue reading →

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Science of sex differences

Posted on August 29, 2017 by

The Science of Sex Differences Is Complicated (and Biased) There’s a lot of discussion about the problematic Google manifesto, and one of the issues brought up is the science of sex differences. Yes it is complex. Yes there are many … Continue reading →

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Foundations of Logic – Postmodernism and science

Posted on August 29, 2017 by

Foundations of Logic Facebook Page – postmodernism and science Science seems to me to be a process of observing, contemplating, producing hypotheses to account for observations, then designing experiments to eliminate one or more of the available possible models. The … Continue reading →

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Facebook – foundations of logic – science and scientists

Posted on July 28, 2017 by

Facebook group – the foundation of logic – Post on science and scientists I would say that science is the recursive process of using a combination of intuition, the best available tools of reason and logic, the best available tools … Continue reading →

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