Journeyman Philosopher

The original title of this post was Artificial Intelligence and Consciousness . This is perhaps the hardest of subjects to tackle. I’ve just...

I recently bought a copy of Godel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid , the Pulitzer Prize winning book by Douglas R.Hofstadter. In fact,...

Normally, I leave my arguments on other blogs, on other blogs, but, on this occasion, I feel that this is such a widespread, fundamentally m...

Recently, I was involved in a forum on Stephen Law’s web site (see my blog roll) which critiqued Richard Dawkins’ book, The God Delusion . S...

This is another letter I wrote to New Scientist in response to an article by Dorothy Rowe, an Australian psychologist apparently, and autho...

A couple of weeks ago in New Scientist (4 October 2008), there was one of those lesser featured articles that you could skip over if you we...