Popular Science

As we saw in the previous post, the book Free Agents by Kevin Mitchell deals with the origins of human consciousness and free will. In a br...

In several posts in this blog, I've discussed determinism, always from a critical perspective. For example, in a post entitled  The deba...

In a previous post titled Paul Davies, popularizer of science , I mentioned the two hard problems of modern science, so called because afte...

It is well-known that time travel into the past, and sometimes also into the future, if it were possible, could give rise to destructive p...

Louis Pasteur Louis Pasteur was, without a doubt, one of the greatest scientists of the 19th century. His scientific work was immense. Amon...

Henri Poincaré As a scientist, Henri Poincaré was a mathematician who worked in many fields of that science, both theoretical and applied, ...

The title of this post is similar to the title of a work by Charles Darwin,  The descent of Man ,  his second most famous, although it can...