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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