Elliott BignellThe strike on Voronezh has had me thinking.Personally, I think Ukraine should go ahead and poke their eyes out.Jun 11Jun 11
Elliott BignellThe Antikythera mechanism led me to ponder the same question about the Greeks.Empiricism in this context simply means the unwillingness to take a claim on authority. This mentality leads one to question accepted…May 211May 211
Elliott BignellIdeas about sin are fine so long as the thinker keeps their thinks to their self.It becomes a problem for society and a reason for intervention at the exact moment said Evangelical takes it upon himself - and let's face…May 11May 11
Elliott BignellThoughts on WokeryI think it was the monarch formerly known as Prince Charles who said that “woke” is just a pejorative used to revile the manifestation of…Apr 261Apr 261
Elliott BignellI think you may turn out to be wrong about the EU.Europe has achieved huge peacetime success under the umbrella of US support for NATO, but at the expense of military independence. It would…Mar 22Mar 22
Elliott BignellIt may be worth noting that Germany, Italy and Japan are also export powerhouses.All mature economies that partake of the international trade norm have a per capita growth rate of about 1%. Everything above that is due…Mar 12Mar 12
Elliott BignellThe space for a soul-of-the-gaps is becoming exceedingly thin.As for the wetware-based alternative, we have known for centuries that subjective states can be radically altered by taking various…Jan 291Jan 291
Elliott BignellPerhaps the USA and France are now regretting providing Iran with nuclear technology in the first…The US and its hench-states have attempted to reduce Iran to a mediaeval condition for just possibly being in a position to violate the NPT…Jan 19Jan 19
Elliott BignellThe Iranians would be more than justified in acquiring nuclear weapons, and it astonishes me that a…I think non-proliferation is increasingly a dead letter. Those who lack nukes lack the guarantees that are supposed to come with…Nov 26, 20231Nov 26, 20231
Elliott BignellI think it needs pointing out more often that the most interesting thing about both consciousness…It strikes me that this defeats not just Chalmers' materialist dualism-via emergence but also any form of dualism. Mind affects matter in…Nov 11, 2023Nov 11, 2023
