AvatarΠασχάλης ΑποστολίδηςFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoBertrand Russell: The Everyday Benefit of Philosophy Is That It Helps You Live with Uncertaintyopenculture.com - OCOn the strength of a few quotations and the popular lecture Why I am Not a Christian, philosopher Bertrand Russell has been characterized as a …
AvatarΠασχάλης ΑποστολίδηςFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoThe “Nietzsche Thesis”: Why we don’t really care about truthbigthink.com - Jonny ThomsonAt the end of his life, Herman Melville (author of Moby-Dick) wrote a book called The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade. The novel is set aboard a …
AvatarΠασχάλης ΑποστολίδηςFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoNew Dimension May Explain Quantum Mechanicsrealclearscience.com - Tim AndersenThe problem of how to interpret quantum mechanics has been baffling physicists for 100 years. How do you understand the phenomenon where a particle …
AvatarΠασχάλης ΑποστολίδηςFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoA universe of nothingness | Peter Atkinsiai.tvThere is no charge in the universe, and no energy. Mathematics is the key to understanding how something spring forth from this nothing, and is the …
AvatarΠασχάλης ΑποστολίδηςGood demonstration of a computer that runs on marblesboingboing.net - Mark FrauenfelderThe Action Lab Man introduces binary arithmetic when demonstrating the cool Turning Tumble marble-powered computer.
AvatarΠασχάλης ΑποστολίδηςFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoPhilosopher: Consciousness is Not a Problem. Dualism Is!mindmatters.ai - NewsRecently, we looked at the way popular science media have been growing more comfortable with panpsychism, the idea that consciousness is fundamental …
AvatarΠασχάλης ΑποστολίδηςFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoKHAN: Is America Suffering A Mental Health Crisis Or A Moral Crisis? | The Daily Wiredailywire.com - Sharif KhanAmid the mass shootings, the substantial uptick in suicides, and the addiction epidemic, the constant refrain seems to be that America is suffering a …
AvatarΠασχάλης ΑποστολίδηςAvatarAvatarWhy philosophers believe we’ve reached peak human intelligenceverified_publisherTNW - The ConversationDespite huge advances in science over the past century, our understanding of nature is still far from complete. Not only have scientists failed to find the Holy Grail of physics – unifying the very large (general relativity) with the very small (quantum mechanics) – they still don’t know what the …