Author: Evgenii Rudnyi
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Experimental Method and God’s Voluntarism
From Nancy Pearcey, Charles Thaxton, The Soul of Science: Christian Faith and Natural Philosophy p. 19 “In 1277 Etienne Tempier, Bishop of Paris, issued a condemnation of several theses derived from Aristotelianism – that God could not allow any form of planetary motion other than circular, that He could not make a vacuum, and many…
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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
Maarten Hoenen in his fifth lecture on Voraussetzung und Vorurteil has mentioned that Collingwood once compared monotheism with polytheism in respect to influencing science. According to Collingwood, the modern reductionism (Theory of Everything) is similar to monotheism where everything should be explained through God. I like this thought and below there are some results from my…
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Who is Worse: Software Developers or Users?
My two messages to the discussion on the ICS-L list A simple problem with ‘<‘ in Matlab? ________________ I have browsed the current discussion and it was quite entertaining. It helped me to relax a bit after a long working day. The question that I am asking myself often recently, who is worse: software developers…