Author: Evgenii Rudnyi
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Three Worlds by Karl Popper
Quotes from Three Worlds, Karl Popper The Tanner Lecture On Human Values Delivered at The University of Michigan, April 7, 1978 “In this lecture I intend to challenge those who uphold a monist or even a dualist view of the universe; and I will propose, instead, a pluralist view. I will propose a view of…
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Is the brain in the world or the world in the brain?
The title is taken from Max Velmans, Where experiences are: Dualist, physicalist, enactive and reflexive accounts of phenomenal consciousness, Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, Volume 6, Number 4 (2007), 547-563 In the paper, the reflexive model of perception is suggested. “In most respects Figure 3 is the same as Figures 1 and 2. As before,…
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Resuscitation of Hamsters after Supercooling
Robert Karl Stonjek in the discussion on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/groups/rks.consciousness/10150829992540115/ has mentioned: “On the suspension of life, it was James Lovelock and his colleagues in the 1950s that were freezing hamsters and then bringing them back to life.” Also he has quoted ‘Homage to Gaia: The Life of an Independent Scientist’ by James Lovelock, P.108-9 (hardcover version):…
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How to Kill a Laboratory Mouse Humanely
A quote from Karin Knorr Cetina, Epistemic Cultures: How the Sciences Make Knowledge p. 140. “The technical assistant (TA) … did not know how kill the animals properly – he put them to death by placing them in a -70 degree Celsius freezer. (Mice should be killed “humanely” by placing them on top of the…
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God as a Cosmic Operator
I will start with a couple of quotes from the Chapter 2, The Disunity of Science, Paul Feyerabend, The Tyranny of Science “After Newton had found his law of gravitation, he applied it to the moon and to the planets. It seemed that Jupiter and Saturn, when treated in this way, slowly moved away from each…
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Collingwood on Monotheism and Science
Quotes from Robin George Collingwood, An Essay on Metaphysics. God Exists as Metaphysical Proposition.
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Two Mathematicians in a Bunker and Existence of Pi
A thought experiment to discuss whether Pi exists. Physicalism vs. Platonism.
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Entropy and Information
Critique on using information entropy in thermodynamics.