Hamiltonian at Oxford

Thursday, April 20, 2017

A solution to Mary's Room (Knowledge argument)

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Mary's room is a philosophical thought experiment that goes as follows: Mary exists in a monochromatic room but she studies neurobiolog...
Saturday, April 1, 2017

We are not on the brink of uploading ourselves into computers.

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Science fiction and "transhumanists" love the idea that humanity is on the brink of forsaking our frail human bodies and uploading...
Sunday, December 6, 2015

WTF Happened in the Doctor Who finale? (Spoilers!)

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This season's finale may have done what I thought was impossible, be worse than last season's finale (why the fuck are the UK newsp...
Saturday, December 5, 2015

Male and Female Brains

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Hopefully all of you have heard about the recent PNAS article  "debunking" the existence of male and female brains. I use the quo...
Sunday, November 29, 2015

The Meaning of Science

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A few months ago I finished reading The Meaning of Science  by Tim Lewens and I haven't quite worked out what I would write about it. La...
Friday, November 13, 2015

Anti-Outrage Outrage

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This week Nature published an article discussing the relationship of social media with sexism in science. But the most interesting part wa...
Sunday, April 5, 2015

Why Mining Asteroids is the worst idea since sliced bread.

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Asteroid mining is economically unfeasible and likely to remain so for at least another 50 years (possibly forever, as reclaiming rare metal...
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