This is a historical post. I found this poem by reading Martin Gardner, the famous skeptic for Scientific American. It became one of my favorite…
Category: Optimism
A friend once needed cheering up because she felt all the magic in the world was dying. I told her about this quote from Fredrick…
The following letter was originally sent out to my mailing list and published here.
Note–this was originally published with Areo Magazine. It seems that as soon as our ancestors could afford to do so, they forged a spiritual dimension…
A long time ago I wrote an article called “Disagreements with Deutsch: The Afterlife.” It was a terrible article and, in my opinion, contains a…
Karl Popper coined the phrase “All life is problem solving”. Problem solving (i.e. creating knowledge to solve problems) is the defining essence of what we…
One of my favorite ideas of championed by Karl Popper is what he calls the “truth is manifest” error. After describing how successful Renaissance epistemology…