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Followup to:  How an Algorithm Feels From the Inside, Feel the Meaning, Replace the Symbol with the Substance "If a tree falls in the fore

Followup to:  Dissolving the Question, Mysterious Answers to Mysterious Questions Where the mind cuts against reality's grain, it generate

Followup to:  How an Algorithm Feels from the Inside, Dissolving the Question, Wrong Questions When you are faced with an unanswerable que

Followup to:  How an Algorithm Feels From Inside In the dawn days of science fiction, alien invaders would occasionally kidnap a girl in a

Followup to:  The Mind Projection Fallacy Yesterday I spoke of the Mind Projection Fallacy, giving the example of the alien monster who ca

Followup to:  The Mind Projection Fallacy, Probability is in the Mind  In classical logic, the operational definition of identity is that

Followup to:  Probability is in the Mind, The Quotation is not the Referent I suggest that a primary cause of confusion about the distinct

Whenever I hear someone describe quantum physics as "weird" - whenever I hear someone bewailing the mysterious effects of observation on the

I was recently having a conversation with some friends on the topic of hour-by-hour productivity and willpower maintenance—something I've st

Followup to:  How An Algorithm Feels From Inside, Mind Projection Fallacy Almost one year ago, in April 2007, Matthew C submitted the foll

Followup to:  Reductionism, Righting a Wrong Question John Keats's Lamia (1819) surely deserves some kind of award for Most Famously Annoy

Followup to:  Explaining vs. Explaining Away, Fake Explanation There was an awful rainbow once in heaven: We know her woof, her texture;

Followup to:  Explaining vs. Explaining Away     "Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars—mere globs of gas atoms.  Not