The third in a series on David Chalmers’ 2022 book Reality+: Virtual Worlds and the Problems of Philosophy. The famous philosopher of consciousness attempts to defeat Descartes’ idea of global skepticism by developing the idea that it is very possible we live in a virtual world. …

This is the second in a series exploring philosopher of consciousness David Chalmers’ 2022 book titled Reality+: Virtual Worlds and the Problems of Philosophy. Chalmers, an atheist, who believes it possible that we are living in simulation, shows how such a belief challenges his atheism. Afer reviewing historic arguments for…

This is the first in a series exploring David Chalmers’ 2022 book Reality+: Virtual Worlds and the Problems of Philosophy. It might be considered, in light of the previous series on Schrödinger, Decoding Chalmers’ Metaphysics. David Chalmers, the Australian-born philosopher of consciousness, is justifiably famous for his significant contributions to…

This post takes a critical look at one of the popular theories for how quantum states become classical states in a way that creates the reality we experience. What is really real? Despite all the great success of science, it seems the more we dig into that question the more…

The final in a series on the metaphysics of Erwin Schrödinger. Here we must ask the difficult question what role his moral and ethical judgment played in his view of reality. I very much appreciate the surprising number of readers who have patiently journeyed with me through Schrödinger’s metaphysics. Attempting…

The fourth in a series called Decoding Schrödinger’s Metaphysics. His adoption of the monism of Advaita Vedantism was more philosophical than religious. Here we see how he rejected some beliefs that are core to religions based on this Eastern philosophy. We are now approaching the conclusion of Schrödinger’s little book…

This is the third in a series called “Decoding Schrödinger’s Metaphysics.” Earlier we found he rejected Kant’s dismissal of transcendence and argued in favored of the monistic view of reality of Vedantism in which a unitary consciousness comprises all of reality with our sense of an objective external reality an…

Science headlines claim a new law of evolution fills a huge gap. Will it succeed in solving the mysteries of evolution? A group of scientists, led by Michael Wong of Carnegie Science’s Earth and Planets Laboratory, wrote a paper titled “On the roles of function and natural selection in evolving…

The second post on Erwin Schrodinger’s metaphysics in which he expresses support for the Vedantic vision of a single consciousness constituting all reality. In the previous post exploring Erwin Schrödinger’s metaphysics, we saw how he rebelled against the death of metaphysics as declared by Kant and most philosophers since then…