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caption competition
I thought it would be a bit of fun to put this INCREDIBLE (but I’m not biased) picture up and let people try out some captions for it… Have fun! caption competition on...
View Articlesentience and consciousness
Consciousness is at least sentience, but not less. We can imagine a spectrum of least sentient to most sentient. The nearest animals to humans, in this case, would (obviously!) have the closest kind...
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how nice…
…of “all of [them] on the Facebook Team” to wish me a happy (30th) birthday (on the ’30th’ of January). I feel truly loved.
View Articlesurgery to save or end a life
Anyone who knows me knows I’m aware of the sensitivities associated with abortion. Although in one sense (something like the sense reflected in the post title) I think it can fairly be seen as a...
View Articlemeasuring value
There are at least two kinds of ‘value’ – a) the kind science can measure, and b) the kind that science cannot. Science measures certain kinds of ‘values’ that can be measured, because it is by nature...
View Articleteleology & ethics
The word ‘teleology’ (from Greek τελος ‘telos’ – meaning ‘goal’, ‘end’, ‘purpose’ or ‘that toward which things tend’) is not a street-level term. However, the concept of a purpose, goal, function or...
View Articleindia: different
So I should probably post about my recent trip to India. I could give a ‘what we got up to’ report of the work our team did (some still over – some still yet to go) on the new Freeset T-shirts...
View Articlebeautiful
Is beauty completely subjective? I just had a truckload of beauty dumped in my lap as I took part in ‘Mixi Club’ at my church. Mixi Club provides community and food to the most interesting and...
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