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PhilosophyMeasuring Meaningful Information in Images: A Specified Complexity Algorithm
Winston Ewert, William Dembski, Robert . Marks II, "Measuring Meaningful Information in Images: The Specified Complexity Algorithm", IET Computer Vision, Part 9 (6): 884-894 (December, 2015). Winston Ewert, William A. Dembski, Robert J...
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PhilosophyHeisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle (1)
A consequence of "particle-wave duality" is that it limits the amount of information that can be known about the quantum system at a time. Either we choose to monitor the wave characteristics of light by passing it through the...
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PhilosophyFunctionalism and mental states
Functionalism recognizes the fact that it is impossible to identify the types of mental states with the types of behavioral tendencies, but still wants to describe mental states by reference to behavior, even indirectly, and tries to achieve this through...
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PhilosophyIs the success of science due to systematic naturalism?
Proponents of methodological naturalism argue that the strong reason for the success of science is its avoidance of dealing with non-physical entities and causes. But many theories that no one disputes are scientific, dealing with non-physical entities, the forces of nature...
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PhilosophyComparison of consensus authority: between the scientific community and the human community (1)
* Note: This series is from the book (Human Consensus) For more please review the book. Is science advancing? Is science certain? Is the agreement of the scientific community an argument? This will appear through the presentation of programs for the nature of science and certainty in it, I will limit myself to three models...
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PhilosophyWittgenstein and cunning logic: an attempt to understand the roots of the philosophies of the mind.
*Note: The article from Wittgenstein and Philosophical Research for more details please review the book. We will first start by looking at how Wittgenstein's philosophical treatment applied to the philosophy of language and the philosophy of psychology.
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PhilosophyCriterion of falsifiability in the philosophy of science
Important paragraphs on the criterion of falsifiability in the philosophy of science from the book (Towards a descriptive approach to science: criticism of contemporary philosophies of science) by researcher Reza Zidane ------------------c) Does the criterion of falsifiability serve as a criterion for the separation between science and non-science?
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PhilosophyQuantum Physics: Fact or Fiction? (1): From Newton to Quantum
* Disclaimer: In this series, we publish a summary of the most important chapters of the book (Quantum Physics: Fact or Fiction?!) by Dr. Alistair Ray, former Professor of Physics at the University of Birmingham...
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PhilosophyHuman unanimity: How does a person acquire the right habit?
* Disclaimer: In this series we publish a summary of one of the chapters of the book (Human Consensus: Determinants and Criteria of Protest) by researcher Reza Zidane How does a person acquire the right habit and rules of looking at the world? The child takes a large part of education and training in order to...
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PhilosophyCreation of the scientific outlook (2)
Note: This series of books (Towards a Descriptive Approach to Science: A Critique of Contemporary Philosophy of Science) for more. b) The theory of the four elements has played a central role in Aristotle’s physics, namely earth, water, air and fire. Aristotle did not consider...
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PhilosophyCreation of the scientific outlook (1)
Note: This series of books (Towards a Descriptive Approach to Science: A Critique of Contemporary Philosophy of Science) for more please check out the book. In fact, sports science [i.e., the use of sport in science] and the use of experience and expertise had their own pre-revolutionary history...
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PhilosophyDarwin and the interpretation of the origin of morality
Note: This article is from Darwin to Hitler: Evolutionary Ethics, Eugenia and Racism in Germany. For more, please check out the book. Darwin carefully summarized his views on ethics and the value system...
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PhilosophyWhat is the difference between science and zombie science?
*Note: This article is from the book Zombie Science: Icons of Evolution Again. For more see the book. How do we know if one of the things we hear "Science Says" is true or not? In the end, you will have to realize the truth...
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PhilosophyWhy do we care about anti-human environmentalism?
*Note: This article is from War on Man. In an age when key principles are often emotionally categorized, and we are dominated by stories that are not based on facts, many may question what they are.
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PhilosophyThe Panda Book and the Edwards Case: What Does “Creationist” Mean?
Long before the Edwards case, the panda authors specifically rejected the view that science could detect whether the intelligent cause identified was supernatural. Of course, the process by which an intelligent agent produces a designed object can...
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PhilosophyIntellectual Pilgrimage: Excerpts from Anthony Flew's Intellectual Journey (3)
* Note: This series is from the book (There is a God: How the World's Most Powerful Atheist Changed His Thoughts?) For more please check out the book. A return to wisdom for my new position on classical philosophical debates about the existence of God. I was completely convinced by the argument...
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PhilosophyIntellectual Pilgrimage: Excerpts from Anthony Flew's Intellectual Journey (2)
* Note: This series is from the book (There is a God: How the World's Most Powerful Atheist Changed His Thoughts?) For more please check out the book. My leaving of atheism was not caused by any new proof or phenomenon. For the past two decades, the entire...
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PhilosophyIntellectual Pilgrimage: Excerpts from Anthony Flew's Intellectual Journey (1)
* Note: This series is from the book (There is a God: How the World's Most Powerful One Changed His Thoughts?) For more please check out the book. Let's start with a symbolic tale. Imagine a satellite phone brought by the waves on a remote island shore, and found...
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PhilosophyComparison of consensus authority: between the scientific community and the human community (3)
*Note: This series is from The Human Consensus for more. C. Popper's Model: After Popper gave his critique of logical positivism and its verifiability of statements, "I make it clear that scientific theories are postulates, which may come in any way...
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PhilosophyHow can life arise? (comment on the possibility of life originating on Kepler425b)
For life to arise on earth or otherwise, it is not enough to have "essential elements" and "favorable conditions"! Tools and ingredients are carefully placed in the kitchen corner. Two cans of tuna, a bag of noodles, a block of cheese ale, in addition to onions, green peas...
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PhilosophyIs Atheism Unreasonable? A Conversation with Alvin Plantinga
This is the first of a series of interviews on religion, this time with Alvin Plantinga, professor emeritus of philosophy at the University of Notre Dame and former president of both the Society of Christian Philosophers and the Society for Christian Philosophy.
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PhilosophyDarwinism with a Marxist Flavor: When Politics Turns the Course of Science into Ideology
Charles A. Leone said, “Science cannot remain free in a social order that seeks to control all the intellectual and spiritual life of a nation, and the validity of a scientific theory can never be judged by its willingness to provide answers.”
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PhilosophyThe Lost Paradise of Bacon: When We Are Ruled by Empirical positivist Ethics
(1) On a night of silence, whose wind is breezed with the fragrantness of the past.. Marcel sits on a window near the tweet of the wave, and flirting with the sea for human glances, passing a breath of air aroma to touch his body, remembering only the substance of the skin reacts with oxygen, printed...
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PhilosophyThe foundations of experimental science: what is the standard of science and what is its rationale?
Some may believe that atheism is a position of nihilism that does not need justification, a position armed with science and logic, but faith is an additional positive position that needs justification for its existence, and tempts the believer's interlocutor with many logical and other doubts and objections.
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