Social media made us overvalue opinions and undervalue actions. We’re now judged more by what we say than what we do, and words, unlike deeds, are easy to fake.

Perhaps Aristotle had it right all along.

“You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.” - Aristotle

Those who would censor misinformation say that in a free market of ideas, the truth doesn't always win out. The trouble is, when speech is controlled by a select few, the truth never wins out.

Richard Dawkins Can you explain how chemicals can self organize into life, and write their own genetic code?

‘You aren’t a university worth it’s name if you don’t see that free speech is a core value’ - well said, Claire Fox

No it doesn't.

Scott Adams The afterburner of the dogs is rising

Nice.

Every scientist knows that the major journal publishers are rent-seeking rackets. They're now being sued on antitrust grounds: Academic Journal Publishers Antitrust Litigation – Lieff Cabraser lieffcabraser.com/antitrust/acad…

Major academic publishers are getting sued for unlawfully appropriating billions of dollars. Prof. Lucina Qazi Uddin, a neuroscientist at UCLA, has sued these six academic publishers Elsevier, Wolters Kluwer, Wiley, Taylor & Francis, Sage, and Springer Nature. The lawsuit

Wow 😲

Interesting.

That's Life.

A lot of 20th Century philosophy was just noticing all sort of massive problems for naturalism (e.g., consciousness, intentionality, normativity, obligation, rationality) and then constructing complex, ingenious — but deeply implausible — naturalistic solutions to them.

Couldn't agree more.

I agree.

Today's Reminder

Origami used in aerospace engineering.

The world that we experience is created by our brain in its attempt to represent the actual world as closely as it can. Most of the time, it does a good job. When it doesn't, we call that "hallucination". Calling our everyday experiences hallucination is misusing that word (IMO).