Thursday, March 28, 2024

The mystery of the cosmological constant

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Alexander Friedmann (Александр Фридман) This post completes a previous post with a similar title: The problem of the cosmological constant ....
Thursday, March 21, 2024

They bark, therefore we ride

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Illustration by Gustavo Doré In September 2003, reading the book On the Will in Nature (1836) by the German philosopher Arthur Schopenh...
Thursday, March 14, 2024

Pope Francis, Technocracy and Artificial Intelligence

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The last Apostolic Exhortation by Pope Francis, entitled Laudate Deum and published on October 4, 2023, dedicates a chapter to the technoc...
Wednesday, March 6, 2024

Chance, design and artificial life

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In previous posts in this blog I have mentioned my experiments on artificial life : the simulation in a computer of processes similar to ...
Thursday, February 29, 2024

Different types of chance

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Jacques Monod When we don’t know why something happens, we usually say that it is due to chance. But this statement is ambiguous, becaus...
Thursday, February 22, 2024

Sin, Redemption and Extraterrestrial Intelligence

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Ray Bradbury Ray Bradbury wrote a story titled The Man that can be summarized thus: In its expansion through the galaxy, the human sp...
Thursday, February 15, 2024

Extraterrestrial intelligence and original sin

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C.S. Lewis These speculations may seem irrelevant, since we do not know if extraterrestrial intelligence exists. In fact, the probability ...