The human brain is an information processing machine. Like any information processing system, the goal is to process information with as little error as...
Will, Here's an interesting question: Is there a difference from natural "existential terror, malaise, and angst" and religiously induced "existential terror,...
Naturalism is a philosophical movement that is slowly gaining traction among freethinkers. I really believe it is the future. You can read a rather dry...
**For immediate release** Contact Person: Will Davidson <phone> Dec 28, 2006 Not Your Father's Atheism; local group explores positive atheistic philosophy ...
Will, I like it - especially the goal of becoming better . . . Good job. David ... **For immediate release** Contact Person: Will Davidson <phone> Dec 28, 2006...
http://mambo.shambhalasun.com/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=2903&Itemid=247 If you haven't read Sam Harris' book "The End of Faith", you should. Will...
Will, Excellent article. I have to admit that with many of my encounters with Buddhists, I was troubled by the "religiousness". To many I have known,...
Will, I thought, from your article in the Times that you sent, you'd like to know about the post in Scott Adams' blog (Dilbert creator) on the same article....
Morality is embedded in reality it can never be a collection of abstract rules. The following is excerpted from a blog. You can read the entire post here: ...
http://www.pantheism.net/manifest.htm <<<1. We revere and celebrate the Universe as the totality of being, past, present and future. It is self-organizing,...
Will, Thanks for the post. Yes, it is a good list, I agree. However, when I first read number 5, I sort of stumbled. I know you liked it because of the last...
My take on the matter is that a rock and a human are both made of matter/energy. It is only the particular pattern of matter/energy that differs. By...
1. The word pantheism cannot be compared to words like atheism because the prefix pan does not negate the suffix theism. 2. The idea that the definition or...
In my opinion, the term naturalism includes all that is real and excludes all that is unreal. To me Nature is: The unbroken chain of causal events that have...
I intend Apex Naturalism to be an all encompassing philosophy, practice and way of being. As a philosophy it is a rational worldview that explains the world...
Invisible Unlike other discriminated against minority groups, naturalists (those people that do not believe in supernatural causes) are mainly invisible. As...
A Naturalist is one that advocates or practices naturalism or is a student of natural history, especially a field biologist. Many of my environmentalist...
Jerald, Words can have more than one meaning. I think that the world naturalist to describe someone who does not believe in the supernatural is gaining...
Excellent video. Thanks for sharing that. There were several things I did not know such as that in some states, an atheist is not supposed to be allowed to...
I think Sam Harris is right on target when he talks about the need for a "Science of Consciousness." It is just such a thing that I am trying to articulate...
"a hostility to both doubt and reason"..Sam Harris I think that pretty much sums up the fundamentalist attitude. I think that both could be characterized as...
"We both accept that there may well be a higher truth beyond empirical inquiry or proof." Andrew Sullivan I reject this idea emphatically. Truth is embedded in...
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