A blogger I love to read is Mencius Moldbug, of Unqualified Reservations. I find him always thought provoking, and a pleasure to disagree with as well as to agree with. Indeed, he more than once changed my mind on topics where I didn't imagine I could be swayed, by bringing about a point of view I had never been confronted to.

Mencius Moldbug is ( Read more... )

In that dream yesterday, some secret society had discovered the secret to immortality: walk to the end of the corridor, make the leap of faith into that super deep pit lined with stone walls, and when you hit the bottom, be resurrected twenty years later in a young body in the secret temple of the society.

As I was jumping together with the love ( Read more... )

"Social contract" theorists try to replace universal natural law with arbitrary social constructs, but start by stealing the very concept of contract from the framework of natural law that they are claiming to do away with.

If there is no prior, higher, Law, then no contract whatsoever, "social" or else, is binding. Anything goes, contracts are ( Read more... )

Au cours d'un débat, je me suis vu opposé comme souvent l'argument bâteau du pragmatisme contre l'idéologieAh, le pragmatisme ( Read more... )

At a recent talk at BU about Consciousness, Steven Horst, a professor of philosophy at Wesleyan advanced an apparently well-known argument by Frank JacksonThe argument uses the thought experiment of a woman named Mary ( Read more... )

Take Swiss Cheese, the variety that comes with holes (technically known as eyesThere is a clear correlation between holes and cheese ( Read more... )

Last month, I was thinking a lot about polyphasic sleep schedulesI didn't manage to discipline myself in such a schedule yet, and ( Read more... )

In Ontology is Overrated: Categories, Links, and Tags, Clay Shirky clearly explains the issue of a posteriori knowledge versus a priori knowledge ( Read more... )

Ali describes black magic thinking pretty well.

Dans une discussion rationnelle, chacun explore ( Read more... )