Is God Omniscient?
The Person shares in the Divine as being made in the image of God. We too are free. We are co-creators with God; He in His macrocosm…
Ex Machina: A Story of Chaste Love Murdered by the Ending
Alan Turing invented the ideational basis of modern computers with his concept of a universal machine. The machine had a write/erase head and a strip of paper…
Consciousness: What is It and Where is it Found?
It is a common-place assumption that brains generate consciousness. The fact that brain damage, drug use, sleep deprivation, etc., impair thinking seems to confirm the brain’s generative…
Mystery and Order; The Right and Left Hemispheres
In The Master and His Emissary, Iain McGilchrist writes that a creature like a bird needs two types of consciousness simultaneously. It needs to be able to…
The Illogicality of Determinism – Further Considerations
In “The Illogicality of Determinism," I point out the absurdity and contradictions of arguing for determinism.¹ The sheer pointlessness of the exercise is staggering. The “determined” arguer…
The Illogicality of Determinism
Physical determinism is the notion that all events, including thoughts and actions, are the result of cause and effect. Each effect is the result of a prior…
The Halting Problem
Kurt Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorem was inspired by David Hilbert’s question “Are the axioms of a formal system sufficient to derive every statement that is true in all…
Gödel’s Theorem
Kurt Gödel[1] was a Platonist,[2] logician and mathematician who developed the intention of making a profound and lasting impact on philosophical mathematics. His next task was to…
Aesthetic Knowledge
Aesthetic subjectivism, or “relativism,” is the view that beauty is solely in the eye of the beholder. The term “relativism” is sometimes used to indicate that beauty…
Plato’s Cave
Plato’s allegory of the cave appears in Book VII of Plato’s most famous and longest dialog, The Republic. Plato’s dialogs frequently star Plato’s teacher Socrates as a…
Nietzsche – The Diabolical Saint of Acceptance: Explaining Why He Appeals to Both Right and Left
Philosophers have a choice between originality and truth. When it comes to the human condition nearly every true thing that can be said about it has probably…
John Locke – Quantifying Reality
In An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, John Locke focuses on epistemology.* His most important aim was to know what reality was really like. Like many other scientists…
The Fantasy of Promiscuity
Periodically, some group of people come up with what seems to them to be the secret to human happiness; the end of marriage and the birth of…
When One Sex Attacks The Other, Both Lose
Many feminists describe the history of humanity as a male tyranny, oppressing and maltreating women at every opportunity. Their name for this is the “patriarchy;” a name…
Warren Farrell on Why Men Earn More
Why Men Earn More and What Women Can Do About. Warren Farrell. New York: AMACOM, 2005. Warren Farrell’s book Why Men Earn More and What Women…
