The Philosophy of the Socratic Gadfly

This is a slice of my philosophical, lay scientific, musical, religious skepticism, and poetic musings. (All poems are my own.) The science and philosophy side meet in my study of cognitive philosophy; Dan Dennett was the first serious influence on me, but I've moved beyond him. The poems are somewhat related, as many are on philosophical or psychological themes. That includes existentialism and questions of selfhood, death, and more. Nature and other poems will also show up here on occasion.

The Philosophy of the Socratic Gadfly
Thursday, December 24, 2009

Christmas in US less and less for Christians

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Self-identified Christians, according to Gallup, are now down to just 78 percent of adults . Related to that, religious belief is losing its...
Thursday, December 10, 2009

Anti-depressants beat CBT on personality help

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I'm not a fan or touter of Big Pharma, nor do I denigrate talk therapy. But, it seems that SSRI antidepressants are better than cognitiv...
Saturday, December 05, 2009

Dead salmon, live MRI

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A salmon showed human-type emotional responses to stimuli, when its brain was subject to functional magnetic resonance image scanning. Just ...
Wednesday, December 02, 2009

One gesture worth 1,000words on language evolution

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Chimpanzee gestural control is left-brain-centric, shedding new light on the evolution of human language , since it is also largely localize...
Friday, November 27, 2009

Woman sees 'iron Jesus'

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A Massachusetts woman who recently separated from her husband and had her hours cut at work says an image of Jesus Christ she sees on her ir...
Saturday, October 24, 2009

American religious allegiances diversify, jumble

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Among the new findings of the National Opinion Research Center, Americans are in an illogical jumble: Nonetheless, belief in God has slippe...
Thursday, October 08, 2009

AI, computers, minds, algorithms, evolution, Dennett

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If even artificial intelligence advocates have largely abandoned the idea that AI is ultimately algorithmic , it’s time to question a lot of...
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