Not fooled by randomness

| August 29, 2013

Nassim Taleb wrote a book that caught our attention, Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in the Markets and in Life. We are interested in not being fooled, and we are interested in the larger project of understanding human nature, if there is such a thing. We are particularly interested in understanding psychological […]

Exile in the age of degenerate socialism, 2

| February 11, 2012

If you are a good person, you are an exile under the socialist dictatorship. Exile is your true status, no matter how well off you are or how stable your life looks today. If you participate in any liberal institution, you are a socialist collaborator, not an exile. We are examining Andrei Codrescu, The Disappearance […]

Exile in the age of degenerate socialism, 1

| February 4, 2012

We know that all of our institutions are corrupt because the Left has subverted them, and the masses are constantly conditioned to trance with slogans and false Marxist models. As we try to protect ourselves from the pools of human toxic waste controlled by political correctness, our next subject of interest must be exile, the […]

Descartes’ Error, Part 2

| August 24, 2010

Review of Antonio R. Damasio, Descartes’ Error: Motion, Reason, and the Human Brain, New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1994. Science has devalued emotion because scientists believed emotion clouded reason or played no part in reasoning and was a function of the “lower brain.” Damasio is correcting this view by showing that feelings allow minding of […]

Descartes’ Error, Part 1

| August 21, 2010

Brain science is flourishing, but it is yet in its adolescence, with many researchers offering wildly differing theories of the brain/mind connection. This is understandable because there is no such thing as scientific interpretation. All interpretation comes from existing worldviews projected upon data. As brain studies progress, many theories will be discarded, but at the […]

How they fool you with science, Part 2

| August 4, 2010

Review of Ubiquity: The Science of History, Mark Buchanan, Crown Publishers, New York, 2000. If you were excited by our summary of critical state theory in Part 1, today’s post should sober you up. Everything in critical state theory is a load of bullshit.

How they fool you with science, Part 1

| August 2, 2010

Review of Ubiquity: The Science of History, Mark Buchanan, Crown Publishers, New York, 2000. During the past twenty years scientists have been working to develop a new theory, called critical state theory, from nonequilibrium studies of physics. Critical state theory, which is part of chaos theory, hypothesizes that disasters, upheavals, and other large-scale phenomena arise […]