The Irony of Modern Environmentalism
Do we still care about nature as a part of our existence or as a tool we use to satisfy our demand for morality and political agenda?…
Idealism Reborn?
As Thomas Kuhn rightly pointed out in The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, the progress of knowledge, the change of attitude of the scientific community towards certain concepts…
The Foundational Problem of A.I.: Science and the Critique of Religion
Due to the quick ascension of ChatGPT in the western world, it must be asked, what is the purpose of Artificial Intelligence (A.I.)? What is the thinking…
On Science, Smallness, and Wonder
One of the aspects of my current teaching job that I have most dreaded – before the school year and during it – is teaching science. Though…
Has Modern Science Killed the Essay?
“Thence it happens that nothing is so firmly believed as what is least known, nor are any people so confident as those who tell us fables, such…
Bread Alone
The left hemisphere of the brain is pragmatic and utilitarian. It has no emotion but language and logic. It deals with inanimate objects and manipulates them for…
Robert Sapolsky is Determined to be Wrong
Robert Sapolsky’s, Behave, published in 2017, provides evidence that when it comes to moral and social matters, the dorso lateral prefrontal cortex, the “decider” part of the…
Will AI Technology Cause More Problems Than It Can Solve?
To any software engineers out there pondering this issue, there is no solution to the so-called “alignment problem.” This should be instantly obvious to anyone who spends…
Beyond the Machine: ChatGPT, Transcendence, and Christian Mysticism
Through technology, humans enhance their natural abilities. Consider simple examples, such as glasses or a telescope: these are technologies designed to enhance our ability to see. A…
Evolution’s Mistress: Darwinian Evolutionary Theory and Its Discontents
“Teleology is like a mistress to a biologist; he cannot live without her but he’s unwilling to be seen with her in public.” —J.B.S. Haldane[1] Charles Darwin…
Beyond the Scientific Revolution: Ian McGilchrist’s “The Matter With Things”
While the scientific revolution produced many benefits, the scientific perspective omits purpose and value, without which life is meaningless. With The Matter With Things, Iain McGilchrist makes…
Man, God, and Machine
“Logic is to be conceived […] as the realm [Reich] of pure thought. This realm is truth as it is without veil and absolutely. It can therefore…
Has Science Evolved into Technology?
Has science evolved into technology? This question deserves unpacking. “Science” here refers to a modern variant of rationalism, the “autonomous” one that Edmund Husserl bashed as a…
Social Psychologists’ Attack on Intuition and Expertise
Iain McGilchrist comments in The Matter With Things that our moral intuitions often cannot survive extremely fanciful hypothetical situations nor imagining counterfactual imputations of omniscience. Our intuitions…
Creation by Inhibition, Withdrawal, and Forgetting
Iain McGilchrist, in The Matter With Things, notes that one conception of God and the divine is that He created by withdrawing, by making a space. This…