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
Saturday, January 29, 2022

The twosiderism of transhumanism vs Dark Mountain

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 Via Massimo Pigliucci, Paul Fidalgo offers a critique of sorts of both transhumanism (not limited to Ray Kurzweil's Singularity) and t...
Thursday, January 27, 2022

More thoughts on Tacitus, the Great Fire of Rome and modern historians

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I remain convinced that Christians did not start the Great Fire of Rome, and had that stance well before reading Candida Moss. More importan...
Thursday, January 20, 2022

Maybe we're pushing the whole idea of "qualia" too hard

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 From a 3 Quarks Daily piece linked by Massimo Pigliucci, my thoughts: Per your previous posting from Mr. Elgat on qualia, I noted that ori...
Saturday, January 15, 2022

Top blogging of 2021

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 Not all posts are from the past year, but these were the most popular by readership in the past year. No. 1? Remains my calling out of Anth...
Thursday, January 13, 2022

"Namaste" — worse than "harijan"? Both bad, but both Christian

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 "Harijan" was Gandhi's popularization and reinvention with a twist of a term for the Outcasts or Untouchables. It means, ...
Saturday, January 08, 2022

Top blogging of October-December

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Blogging no more than twice a week, I don't do enough here, versus my main blog, to do a monthly top 10 recap. But quarterly? Earlier th...
Thursday, January 06, 2022

Is "just asking questions" a religion?

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Vox claims that the rise of the Net, specifically social media, and most specifically, newer social media like TikTok, when mixed with the r...
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