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September

If You Can Accept, Momentarily, That The Life and Times of Jesus Is Neither Absolutely True Nor False, You Might Then Come to See How, for Western Civilization, It Is Necessarily True

September 16, 2023

By B

The "Absolute Truth" Trap for Christianity Western Civilization teeters on the edge of dissolution and collapse. While Christianity may have originally helped produce Western Civilization, an error in Christianity's application could now precipitate its collapse. The reason is the subject of this post. The Christian religion's...

August

AI Would Fail the Marshmallow Test

August 13, 2023

In Artificial Intelligence

By B

A 2018 study on a large, representative sample of preschoolers sought to replicate the statistically significant correlations between early-age delay times and later-age life outcomes, like SAT scores, which had been previously found using data from the original marshmallow test. The replication study found only...

August

Intelligence Spectrum

August 5, 2023

In User Manual

By B

This post is an image only. It sums up my understanding of human thinking. ...

August

Religious Twitter User – If the theory of evolution were true, I would have expected there to have been at least SOME actual evolution in half a billion years.

August 2, 2023

In Divine Influence

By B

One can see dramatic human evolution over the last 20K years (as represented by the rise of civilization). It takes reason to produce/sustain civilization. Specifically, reason develops conceptual understandings of systems (in the prefrontal cortex--the newest portion of the human brain). Civilization is conceptual. God...

July

AI May Be A Step Backward–Or, And This Is The More Likely Truth, AI Is A Fraud

July 31, 2023

In Artificial Intelligence

By B

RE AI and how dumb it can be -- A funny thing happened to me on Twitter. A Twitter user began her dialog with me using combative language (screw your God). I replied, noting that emotional language does not contribute to a collegial debate. She concluded that,...

July

The Only Two Ways To Save Civilization

July 10, 2023

In Civilizational Failure, User Manual

By B

The Solutions A societal commitment to the early development of SELF-control (free will) in all citizens (this is the secular path), or ...

June

Why God at all?

June 28, 2023

In Divine Influence, Quick Observations, User Manual

By B

On Twitter, the debate about the existence of God, at least amongst those atheists and theists that I regularly interact with, has achieved detente. Now, most individuals comfortably accept that the existence of God cannot be proven or disproven. The question now often is: Why God...

June

Self-control is the doorway to discovery.

June 20, 2023

In User Manual

By B

The key skill parents and education must accomplish is the development of self-control (free will). https://server.learningframework.com/?p=16505 AND ...

June

Why Atheism Is A Religion

June 16, 2023

In Divine Influence

By B

Concise answer: FOUNDATION - To find TRUTH, a thinker must meet the necessary and sufficient conditions with their hypothesis. The necessary condition is met when a (falsifiable) hypothesis accurately describes the observed. The sufficient condition is met only when all but one of the KNOWN and...

June

To an Atheist, reality is more chaos than order.

June 15, 2023

In Divine Influence

By B

On Twitter, I am often engaged by Atheists. I am not where they are, though I enjoy talking with them. I am also not religious. I subscribe loosely to Voltaire's observation: "If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him." The reason is as...

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