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>a hierarchy of data: physical data, reflexive data, symbolic data, meanings, values, qualia, theoretic data
>what distinguishes science from all other human theories and practice an interactive demarcation: it's independent of any audience
>information faster than light: emergence, symbol and the representation of nothing including what a shadow is and is not
>reality vs science math and thought patterns are cognitions independent of reductionist physics (follow-up on the "information faster than light" post above)
>where is the mind and what's a thought? not where you think
>the intrinsic mediocrity of art, religion and UFOs and the boundless imagination of science why the audience matters
>of mathematical beauty: crystals and potatoes, a Darwinian explanation
>entropy, complexity and telephone putting together two themes of this blog: epistemology and the sociology of false beliefs
>what dogs are not saying and that the universe is not thinking understanding the power of language
>theory theory a typology of theories: what they serve and whom they serve
>the shallowness of AI is its strength the difference between technology and science: explanation in the context of noise
>limits of language qualia and the thing-in-itself
>emergence and reductionsim: free will and the map
>the questions you ask determine the answers you get
>"a window into the soul" metaphor and its revelations
>syntax vs semantics difference and denotation
>panpsychism is silly childishness but it's probably true
>free will is an oxymoron. so what's the debate about? this...
>self-selection and the unchosen: identity, the spark bird and the Freudian trap, a Bayesian doubt
>the duality of truth functional process vs metaphysical probability (pace Pinker)
>the strange beauty of logical positivism: popular and academic misconceptions
>entropy and truth why simplicity is the metric of scientific truth
>older posts including "the fool's errand attachment: a cognitive bias" "art, craft, game-theoretic cognition and machine learning" "the strange beauty of logical positivism and popular and academic misconceptions of it" "on Robin Hanson's grabby aliens" "the new libertarian, overcome by bias" "why explain?" and a couple of posts on Weinberg and explanation
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