Some folks, how ’bout most folks, just don’t like the idea of materialism. “There must be something more”, many feel, and it is non-material, made of the spirit, in the Continue Reading →
I’ve been reading the animal behavior literature for a few decades now. There is some excellent work by dozens of researchers exploring how animals behave and learn and remember and Continue Reading →
Do we have free will, or does our brain choose everything we think or do as a result of previous brain states and sensory inputs, and it could not have Continue Reading →
A few consciousness researchers and some of the more philosophically inclined that ponder what consciousness is all about, propose that inanimate objects and mere matter, maybe the Universe itself, all Continue Reading →
Information Kills Religion. Yes it does. Science; modern knowledge, sweeps away the old myths, superstitions, repressions, and pessimism of religious thought. Normally, I would prepare one of these posts on Continue Reading →
Sometimes in my random review of current events, I read the futurist stuff, like Stephen Hawkings’ conjecture that we need to get off the earth in 600 years…, or else, Continue Reading →
The 2012 Cambridge Declaration on Consciousness, signed by a number of researchers on the subject, declares that animals have consciousness because they have similar neural structures to those we humans Continue Reading →
We are a recalcitrant species. Stubbornness, when manifested as stick-to-it-iveness, is a hallmark of our very human tenacity and cleverness to adapt to almost any environment on earth. In the Continue Reading →
Myself, and Tom Cara from the Chicago Chapter of the Freedom from Religion Foundation at the Secular Coalition for America (SCA) booth at the McHenry County Fair, Woodstock, IL on Continue Reading →
A short book review of the above. (13 chapters plus appendix, 234 pages, 196 references). From the Forward: “The authors have woven together Buddhist practices developed over two thousand years Continue Reading →
