Conciliar Post is a group blog whose goal is to publish meaningful dialogue between members of different Christian traditions. My wife's friend St. Elizabeth, who is an Orthodox Christian, connected me with the organizers of CP, and I am pleased … Continue reading
So g and I were discussing the nature of Consciousness in another thread, and he said something here that I've been meaning to reply to for a while. We were discussing Chalmers' arguments (described in this paper and elsewhere) that … Continue reading
[Historical Note: this blog post was written prior to the U.S. Presidential election of 2016. However, it highlights an issue which I think has been a problem with American politics for as long as I've been paying attention to it.] … Continue reading
In my recent talk about fine tuning, I mentioned that the numerical value of a physical quantities with units (such as meters, joules, etc.) is just an arbitrary human convention. So if you don't understand the grammar of units, you … Continue reading
Here are the slides for my recent talk at Ratio Christi, "Explanations for Fine Tuning": fine2.pdf Click on that link to find out about: Part I: The physics of constants and units Part II: How physicists diagnose fine-tuning Part III: … Continue reading
