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…1 min read·1 day ago----
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…·1 min read·Apr 26, 2024--1--1
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…1 min read·Mar 22, 2024----
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…1 min read·Mar 12, 2024----
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…2 min read·Jan 29, 2024--1--1
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…1 min read·Jan 19, 2024----
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…1 min read·Nov 26, 2023--1--1
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…1 min read·Nov 11, 2023----
Elliott BignellGood article.I just heard this week that my Wife and I have been approved for Swiss citizenship, so the example of Switzerland is currently apposite…1 min read·Sep 2, 2023----
Elliott BignellThe problem with today's interconnected world is that a state actor bent on causing mischief could…An attack on submarine communications networks could be devastating. Europe, for instance, is woefully dependent on Internet access for…1 min read·Aug 23, 2023--1--1