Again, this is the Observatory not the SB, but to answer the question of why (some) religions/religious people equate atheism with (moral) nihilism is simply that they regard their religion as the ...

Not many artists can say that they became successful all on their own. For Pamungkas, doing things his own way was important and because of that, he created his own label, Maspam Records. This ...

My immediate impression is that the linked article is typical of quantum consciousness writing. My favorite lines were “Science expressed in the form of these mathematical relationships can tell no ...

Someone of considerable accomplishment with a good playful sense of humor took the time to write to me recently to ask if I was Artificial Intelligence (AI), and claimed this communication was as a ...

For today, a word that describes what most of the world strives to overcome during the holidays. solipsism (sol-ip-SIZ-uhm) noun 1. the theory that only the self exists, or can be proved to exist. 2.

One of the first ethical lessons we learn as children is to play by the rules. All of us can remember a playground bully, wagging his finger when the game was slipping from his grasp, trying to bend ...

The first time I ever heard the word “solipsist,” it was in a young-adult novel I was reading when I was 9 or 10. Because this was a young-adult novel, the word was probably defined in the same ...

Does life come with a set of instructions on how to live it? And if so, who wrote them? By whose authority are the instructions to be followed? Options are fairly limited here, reducing either to God, ...

This paper addresses a recent argument of the Churchlands against the "linguistic-rationalist" tradition exemplified by current cognitive-computational psychology. Because of its commitment to ...