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Bringing Order To Disordered Views Of Entropy
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Bringing Order To Disordered Views Of Entropy

This is the second post reviewing Sabine Hossenfelder's new book Existential Physics. First is my criticism of Many Worlds. If you are short of time, skip to the bottom today.…
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The Multiverse Hides The Problem It Was Supposed To Solve, And Calls It Solved
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The Multiverse Hides The Problem It Was Supposed To Solve, And Calls It Solved

Let's end the review of Sabine Hossenfelder's book. We did some already: Emergence, Entropy, and Many Worlds. With this post, we'll have covered the most interesting topics. Old Hoss, and…
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Why I’m Unconvinced By Penrose’s Entropy/Anthropic Argument

There are a number of "constants" used in physics, such as the speed of light, the Planck constant, elementary charge and so forth. Some of these constants are bare, meaning…
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The Great Day Is Here! Uncertainty Meets The World

The Great Day---the Day yearned for by all humanity, or at least weakly anticipated by you, Dear Reader---has arrived! Let the trumpet sound and celebration begin! The release of Uncertainty:…
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There’s More Than Physics: A Review Of Nagel’s Mind and Cosmos. Guest Post by Bob Kurland

Kurland provides us with a succinct review of Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature is Almost Certainly False. This will ease us into the week with…
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An Introduction To Uncertainty: Probability, Statistics, and Modeling of All Kinds

This is a teaser, the first part of a 3,200-word narrative outline for the book that I've started to shop around. The current title is in the headline. Regular readers…
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Our Brains Are Not Us: Review of Brainwashed

My nomination for Worst Use of Inference in a Scientific Paper (2009) is "The neural correlates of religious and nonreligious belief" by brain scientist cum philosopher Sam Harris and colleagues.…
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There’s An End On’t! Gazzaniga’s Who’s In Charge? Reviewed: Part I

Who's In Charge? Free Will and the Science of the Brain by Michael S. Gazzaniga On the evening of October 10th 1769, in one of his typically curt dismissals of…
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