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Should You Freeze Yourself?
A number of scholars from Oxford University have recently signed up to be cryogenically frozen after their death, which has sparked some debate on the feasibility and morality of cryonics. As you may...
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A Mathematical Proof that Immortality is Moral
(Disclaimer: this is meant as a joke, not as serious proof.) Premise: 1. There is at least a number N such that living for N years is moral. 2. If living for M years is moral, then so is living for M...
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No Such Thing as Causation
A recurrent argument for the existence of God is that of the “uncaused cause.” What caused the Big Bang? Did this all come from nothing? There must have been something to set it all in motion, a First...
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Here Comes the Sun
In the last year I’ve been conducting an involuntary experiment: finding the effects of pollution on my brain. Beijing has provided the perfect setting for this, giving me plenty of opportunities to...
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Is Artificial Intelligence Possible? Well, Yes
The debate on the possibility of artificial intelligence seems to rage on, despite the fact that one side’s position verges on the supernatural. In here I want to try to debunk once and for all the...
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The Fuzz about Fuzzy Logic
You have a heap of sand and take a grain of sand from it. Is it still a heap? If you answered “yes,” then, by virtue of induction, you will be forced to admit that one grain of sand is also a heap, as...
View ArticleAn Update and An Apology
This is not a new post from David Yerle. It is rather a short note to let my dear readers know that: I’m not dead. I haven’t given up on blogging. It turns out that I had severely underestimated how...
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The Secret for Happiness Physicists Don’t Want You to Know
Before I start: I implore you read this article until the end, especially if you’re a long-time reader of this blog. I also urge to please not skip. But, if you have to choose between skipping and not...
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The Phone Zombies
I have heard many people complain about the phone zombies. I’m sure you’ve seen them too: they populate subway wagons and cafeterias, staring dumbly at their screens instead of focusing on the world...
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Why the Many-Worlds Interpretation Makes Time Travel Possible
I’ve been obsessed with time travel since I watched “Back to the Future” and possibly before that. To a curious mind, not being able to go back to, say, the time of the dinosaurs and actually see them...
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