One of the most mysterious symptoms of COVID-19 is the widespread anosmia. That is, people lose their sense of smell. The most interesting part about it is that we really don’t have a good mechanism […]
Category: Miscellaneous
You are not your thoughts
Living with depression, you hear this phrase a lot. Most of us accept it, perhaps after some hesitation. I want to break it down. The fact that I have thoughts means that I am separate […]
Highway to hell
So something I stressed here was finding our natural state. I called it the ground state and viewed it as something to strive for. The problem is that humanity is damned. That’s the easiest way […]
God is action
I recently wrote about love being kind, and what I think that means. There was an interesting application when you take that and apply it to what the Bible says about God. God is love, […]
Let Light In
People who lose an eye have certain psychological ramifications, and I wanted to see if any of my previous research could shed any light on these victims. Perhaps, a new course of treatment could help […]
The Main Justification
is memory. If experience is evidence, the main source of justification of these past events is our memory. Memory is a record of true propositions. It can be reliable, or not. But to remember something […]
Love is kind
I think I missed the mark on my post about Quantifying Character. In that post, I essentially rank actions as positive or negative, with having inaction labeled as zero. But I don’t think that’s quite […]
Flipping Hitchen’s Razor
Hitchens’s razor is an epistemological razor expressed by writer Christopher Hitchens. It says that the burden of proof regarding the truthfulness of a claim lies with the one who makes the claim; if this burden is […]
Experience is Evidence
And evidence is justification. And justification is what makes belief knowledge. We’ve already discussed how knowledge is justified true belief. But most of our human experience is justified only by our senses. This is knowledge. […]
Sin means Free
Sin is proof we have free will. If we didn’t have free will there would be no fall in Eden, no rebellion in heaven, no need for Jesus. If there was no free will, there […]