Versión en español At this moment, I don’t think there’s a single nation contemplating a reduction in its military budget. We may be on the …
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Axiology Game
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 …
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.” …