Versión en español If we want to have a big impact on our audience, one way to achieve this is to make them rethink their …
Axiology Game
Category: English
Why are there endless debates about the war in the Middle East?
Versión en Español In moral theory, there are three main ethical frameworks: deontological ethics, character-based ethics, and consequentialist ethics. In character-based ethics, the most famous …
Digital computers are also analog machines
Versión en español A sorting algorithm with non-exponential computational complexity Our universe is analog. Digital computers discretize (limit) time and information to a series of …
Political analogies in computer science and evolutionary theory
Versión en español If we want to reach the highest peak of a landscape with local maxima, we must combine two opposite strategies that share …
Illustration of the incompatibility between epiphenomenalism and the evolutionary value of motivation due to subjective experiences, such as pleasure and pain
Versión en Español Hypothesis 1 Emergentist monism and epiphenomenalism consider that there is only one “strong” reality: matter (materialism) or the reality represented by the …
Turtle shield: A shield against torture
Versión en español A device developed with today’s technologies that make torture impossible – what would it look like? It would have to be wearable, …
An uncomfortable debate about the scientific method
Versión en español Well, it turns out that now I am teaching the scientific method. Science is the search for knowledge (I mean good knowledge!) …
Suffering eliminativism
[Versión en español] [Facebook] Me: There’s nothing more important than reducing suffering. What if I’m wrong? Also me: How can you be wrong? That’s the …
How to escape from reality?
Versión en Español “Poetry is much more important than the truth, and, if you don’t believe that, try using the two methods to get laid.” …
A sentient world that works by gradients of bliss
With enough computational power, evolved species can master the fitness game just with pleasure. How? Pain and pleasure seem to be just tools to efficiently …