Riddle: What does an illusory being call an illusory world? Answer: Reality.  __________________________________________ Govinda: What you call a thing, is it something real, something intrinsic: Is it not only the illusion of Maya, only image and appearance?  Your stone, your tree, are they real? Siddhartha: This does not trouble me much.  If they are illusion, then I also am illusion, and so they are always Read more...

“When you have eliminated the impossible whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.” Sherlock Holmes “Science should be interested in determining the truth, whatever that truth may be – natural, supernatural or otherwise.” Sean Carroll Probabilities rule our lives. We chose college majors that offer more job opportunities; take the route to work with less expected congestion; choose investments that are more likely to Read more...

In this experiment, I test whether Perplexity A. I. gives objective answers to deep questions.  Intelligence, particularly coming from a machine, might assumed to be objective.  As this experiment shows, however, Perplexity is not objective but instead toes the line of scientific materialism. Perhaps this is not surprising since “artificial intelligence” is a product of the existing scientific paradigm and Perplexity no doubt weighs the Read more...

Modern scientists seem to have forgotten that quest of science is not to prove materialism true, but to explain the world with a coherent theory.  These are two separate things.  Materialism is at a bottom a metaphysical position that assumes that ultimate reality consists of lifeless particles and forces with no connection to a mind or intelligence.  The world of the materialist is one without direction, Read more...