In which I present a remarkably simple and physically plausible scenario under which Newtonian physics is nondeterministic! This was discovered by John D. Norton at U. Pitt. I
Check out his paper:
http://www.pitt.e du/~jdnorton/papers/ DomePSA2006.pdf
and here is a website which gives another explaination:
http://www.pitt.e du/~jdnorton/Goodies /Dome/index.html
In which I deal the death-blow to all forms of reductive materialism for ever and ever, amen.
Check out EpistemicDuty's vid, which has a link to a very interesting discussion between Grim and Plantinga about the use of similer Cantorian diagonal arguments in theology and modal logic:
http://youtube.co m/watch?v=EHilabPBPH I
A reply to this video:
http://youtube.co m/watch?v=EOFCu4NaXk U
In which I try to answer Veritas & Jack's question and pose a question of my own: If the truth really doesn't matter in questions of religions belief, then does it matter whether a happy Muslim converts to Christianity?
In which I tell a story of a bizarre encounter I had with two young, clean-cut objectivists. Who is John Galt? And who is this Immanuel Kant guy they are so scared of???
Please respond with your best and scariest ghost stories about Immanuel Kant and why he's so scary to Objectivists
In which I demolish the best possible case for Christianity that I can come up with, and in which I blather on about every argument on youtube missing the whole point of the argument.
In which I am dragged kicking and screaming, against my will, into the freewill/determinism debate.
Here's my normative/free will schtick:
http://youtube.co m/watch?v=ueI3jxf12n Y
In which I endorse Urban Elf's answer to the question of why there is something rather than nothing, and so veritas doesn't feel cheated, I give an answer to another question he might be thinking about "why is there order rather than chaos in the universe"
In which I kick off a new series in which I will be explicating the math behind and the arguments in William a. Dembski's book "The Design Inference"
Helpful links: trondreitan's series on Reasoning under uncertainty
http://youtube.co m/trondreitan
Peter Gacs: Lecture notes on Desscriptional complexity and Randomness
http://www.cs.bu. edu/faculty/gacs/pap ers/ait-notes.pdf
In which I briefly describe the neuron, and how the Hodgkins-Huxley equations model it. I also discuss the fortunate form of the neurons in the visual cortex of the rat, how they take the form of weighted sum of boltzmans, which I can exploit for my own nepharious purposes.
I go on to discuss how a neuron could evolve to have nondeterministic behavior.
In which I give the first few layers in the definition of free will. The purpose is to see if I'm right that most people agree that we have a what I will call "epistemic free will".
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