Science and Religion
Morality Without Deity - October 6, 2024
Dark Anything - August 4, 2024
Strange New Energies - July 14, 2024
Why the Moon - April 14, 2024
Quantum Entanglement and Other States of Mind - March 31, 2024
Visions of God - March 24, 2024
Proxies - March 3, 2024
According to Their Nature - February 18, 2024
Slightly Aspergic - February 5, 2023
The Beam in Your Eye - January 15, 2023
On Science - November 13, 2022
Advanced Technological Civilizations - September 25, 2022
The Secret of Evolution - May 8, 2022
Boredom - May 1, 2022
Ultimate Reality - February 6, 2022
Transitions and End States - December 19, 2021
Nothing on My Mind, Again - May 23, 2021
Living with Ambiguity - May 16, 2021
Predicting the Future - May 9, 2021
The Rising Curve - May 2, 2021
Understanding Alien Psychology - April 25, 2021
Understanding Alien Technology - April 18, 2021
Things Worth Believing - April 11, 2021
Proof of Alien Life - April 4, 2021
Higher Power - February 7, 2021
We Are Life - January 31, 2021
Actions and Consequences - January 3, 2021
BC and BCE - December 27, 2020
Life Without Fingernails - December 13, 2020
Modeling Nature - October 11, 2020
Counterclockwise - September 6, 2020
Thingness and Nothingness - August 23, 2020
AI and Personality - August 16, 2020
Without the Option - July 5, 2020
Seeding the Stars - June 14, 2020
Harry Potter’s Broom - March 15, 2020
A Material World - March 1, 2020
Ancient Computers - February 23, 2020
Flying Cars - February 16, 2020
Memory and Imagination - January 12, 2020
Writing Ourselves into a Box - December 29, 2019
Chaos vs. Predictability - December 15, 2019
God and the U.S. Constitution - October 13, 2019
The Myth of Powered Armor - October 6, 2019
Where Are They? - September 15, 2019
Alive by Two Seconds - August 4, 2019
The First Rule of Biology - July 28, 2019
That Apple Story - June 30, 2019
On Rational Suicide - June 6, 2019
Wisdom and Ambiguity - May 5, 2019
On Quitting - April 28, 2019
AI and Emotion - April 14, 2019
Belief vs. Knowledge - April 7, 2019
Creation Stories - March 24, 2019
Warp Drive - March 17, 2019
Gravity - February 10, 2019
Connecting Minds - January 27, 2019
That Voice in Your Head - December 9, 2018
What Is Good? - November 11, 2018
Mind Games - October 21, 2018
Tracing Evolution Backwards - August 26, 2018
Thinking With Our Skin - August 19, 2018
Keeping Busy - August 12, 2018
New Kids on the Block - August 5, 2018
Living Behind the Veil - July 29, 2018
Seeing Ourselves in Alien Eyes - July 22, 2018
Shortcuts to Reality - July 15, 2018
Still Questioning Gravity - July 8, 2018
Contamination Everywhere - June 24, 2018
Predicting the Future - May 27, 2018
The Moon and Beyond - May 20, 2018
The Original Jedi Mind Trick - May 13, 2018
Biological Nanotech - May 6, 2018
One True Religion - April 8, 2018
Death Is All Around - March 18, 2018
The Meaning of Life, Again - March 11, 2018
Don’t Know Much About Cosmology - February 25, 2018
Learning as a Form of Evolution - December 10, 2017
Birdsong Runs in Families - August 27, 2017
AI and Life - August 20, 2017
Platonic Forms in Everyday Life - August 13, 2017
Could DNA Evolve? - July 16, 2017
About Nothing - June 25, 2017
A Game for Gentlemen - June 4, 2017
The God Molecule - May 28, 2017
Wolves and Dogs - May 14, 2017
Rules for Alien Life - March 19, 2017
The Future of Self-Driving Cars - March 12, 2017
Something Outside Yourself - February 19, 2017
The Practical Kōan – February 12, 2017
Between Perception and Reaction - January 8, 2017
At the Edge of Science - November 20, 2016
Excess Spirit - November 13, 2016
Unique or Ubiquitous? - October 30, 2016
Investing in the Future - October 23, 2016
A Child’s Science in Baseball - October 16, 2016
Cruel Fate - September 11, 2016
My GO! Button - September 4, 2016
Rational Thoughts on Suicide - August 14, 2016
Excess Energy - July 24, 2016
Locked In and Locked Out - July 3, 2016
A World Without Numbers - June 5, 2016
My Take on Voice Hearing - May 15, 2016
Fixed in Time - March 6, 2016
The Real Prime Mover - February 14, 2016
Matters of Faith - February 7, 2016
Is Science Perfect? - January 3, 2016
My Problem with Math - December 27, 2015
After the Wheel - December 13, 2015
The First Great Revolution - December 6, 2015
Phlogiston, Aether, and Dark Matter - November 29, 2015
A Spectrum of Self-Awareness - November 22, 2015
Vegetable Vampires - November 15, 2015
Perception vs. Reality - August 23, 2015
Your Buddha Nature - August 2, 2015
Building Our World - July 12, 2015
The Truth About Personal Honesty - July 5, 2015
The Wages of Immortality - June 7, 2015
The Nameless God - May 31, 2015
Gods and Angels - May 3, 2015
Reduced Instruction Set Arithmetic - April 26, 2015
How Important is Race? - April 19, 2015
Can Evolution Be Disproved? - April 12, 2015
Hierarchies of Learning - March 29, 2015
Why Human Beings Are Special - March 8, 2015
Intelligence or Consciousness? - February 8, 2015
The Roots of Religious Anger - February 1, 2015
Information Value of the Zipper - January 18, 2015
Hooray for Technology - January 4, 2015
Brothers Under the Exoskeleton - December 28, 2014
Look Out Among the Stars - November 16, 2014
Between Life and Not-Life - November 9, 2014
A God I Can Believe In - October 19, 2014
Continuing Mysteries of the Genome - October 12, 2014
The Impermanence of Things - October 5, 2014
Hostile Intelligence - August 24, 2014
Accidents and Evolution - August 17, 2014
The Triumph of Intelligence - July 27, 2014
Knowing and Believing - July 20, 2014
Where Are They? - July 6, 2014
Science and Computer Modeling - June 29, 2014
A Latent Belief in Absolutes - June 22, 2014
As Immortal as It Gets - June 15, 2014
The Chemistry of Control - May 11, 2014
The Zen of the Machine - May 4, 2014
The Point of Evolution - April 27, 2014
The Illusion of Self - April 6, 2014
Magical Thinking and Engineering Insight - March 16, 2014
Coffee Took Us to the Moon - February 23, 2014
Seeding the Stars With Dirty Snowballs - February 16, 2014
Shades of Gray - January 26, 2014
Maybe It Was the Butterfly - January 12, 2014
The Years Rush By - January 5, 2014
Believer or Seeker? - December 29, 2013
Fun with (Negative) Numbers - November 3, 2013
Perhaps with a Whimper - September 22, 2013
Not an Arms Race - September 15, 2013
Evolution as Adaptation - September 1, 2013
The Flowering of Life - August 25, 2013
Enigmas of the Big Bang - August 18, 2013
Emergent Properties - August 11, 2013
Communicating with Aliens - July 28, 2013
The Enlightenment and Easy Answers - July 14, 2013
The Unriddling of Quantum Bayesianism – June 9, 2013
A New God for the Scientific Age – May 26, 2013
Death is Nothing – April 28, 2013
Information Saturation – March 24, 2013
Scientific Triumphalism and Militant Atheism – March 10, 2013
Understanding the Universe – March 3, 2013
Evolution and Intelligent Design – February 24, 2013
If You Can Believe … – February 17, 2013
On Valuing Equanimity – February 10, 2013
Three Things We Don’t Know About Physics (II) – January 6, 2013
Three Things We Don’t Know About Physics (I) – December 30, 2012
Asymmetry and Imbalance - December 9, 2012
In the Palm of Your Hand - October 21, 2012
System Architecture, System Culture - August 26, 2012
Public Mind, Private Mind - August 19, 2012
Gautama and the Godfather - August 5, 2012
My Idea of Heaven - July 22, 2012
Schrödinger’s World - June 3, 2012
Awake at 3 a.m. - May 20, 2012
Mahatma Teaching - April 29, 2012
Listening for ET - April 15, 2012
What I Believe - March 25, 2012
Self-Control and Commitment - March 11, 2012
Trust No One - December 18, 2011
Seduced by Numbers - November 27, 2011
The Meaning of Life - October 9, 2011
The Worlds We Share - August 14, 2011
The World We Live In - August 7, 2011
Labels as a Way of Life - July 31, 2011
The Age of Intermediates - July 24, 2011
Manifest Destiny in Space - July 17, 2011
Abracadabra - July 3, 2011
One Magic Trick - June 19, 2011
Success as a Trap - June 12, 2011
Energy Source To Be Identified - May 29, 2011
Morality Without Religion - May 8, 2011
More Thoughts on UFOs - May 1, 2011
One True Religion - April 15, 2011
The Myth of Terraforming – March 27, 2011
SIPRE as a Way of Life – March 13, 2011
Where Do Aliens Come From? - March 6, 2011
Gutenberg and Automation – February 20, 2011
Anosognosia and Objectification – January 30, 2011
Cancer as an Evolutionary Response – January 2, 2011
“Gene Deserts” and the Future of Medicine – December 5, 2010
Coming at You – October 24, 2010
We Are All Cousins – October 17, 2010
Fun With Numbers (II) – September 26, 2010
Fun With Numbers (I) – September 19, 2010
DNA is Everywhere – September 5, 2010
Complexity Effects - August 1, 2010