Philosophy
I came across a Facebook friend’s post which declared “Right-wing commentator: Poor people voting is ‘un-American’” Since the liberals who were commenting on the story appeared to completely miss the point that the commentator was getting at, I decided to help them out: Oppression should be opposed regardless of who the oppressors are or who [...]
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Can any sort of morality be sustained in the absence of a divine moral lawgiver from which an objective moral standard can be derived and to whom we are all accountable? Atheist philosopher Joel Marks argues in his piece that it cannot (part 2), that the best atheists are left with is the subjective dislike [...]
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A bible-study companion of mine recently sent me Jean-Paul Sartre’s “Existentialism is a Humanism”. Here’s my response: Thanks for sending that over! I must admit I haven’t read much of Sartre, so the lecture you sent helped remedy that. I have a hard time differentiating existentialism from hedonism, something Sartre seems to acknowledge at least by accident when he talks [...]
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Here is an excellent example of the McGurk effect: My interpretation of this effect is based on the physics of both sound and light waves. Based on Shannon’s theorum, light carries more information than sound so it makes sense that our minds would, when presented with conflicting information. So it is understandable why many people [...]
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In the movie, Next, Nicholas Cage plays a man who has the ability to perceive future events. Here is a section of the movie where Cage’s character is attempting to thwart a future event (don’t worry, this isn’t a plot spoiler, the movie is still worth watching) by examining all the possible outcomes of his [...]
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