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Saints and Simulators

January 31, 2019January 31, 2019 Chris SunamiMetaphysics

I’m proud to announce that my new series, “Saints and Simulators,” a book-length exploration of the intersection between religion and technology, is now live at the Partially Examined Life blog. Starting from the deliberately provocative[…]

Chaos Monkey

August 17, 2016August 15, 2016 Chris SunamiPsychology

Recently I attended a talk by a IT industry guru where he discussed Netflix’ trouble-making semi-autonomous software program, Chaos Monkey. Basically, this is a program they unleash on their production servers that randomly shuts down[…]

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MJD’s “Turing Test”

May 12, 2016May 11, 2016 Chris SunamiLiterature

One of my first websites was a collection of stories from around what was then the much-smaller World Wide Web. Some of my favorites were by future Perl guru and Dischordian Mark Jason Dominus. I’m[…]

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Science, Faith, and the Silver Chair

March 17, 2016March 16, 2016 Chris SunamiChristianity

Of all children’s authors who have integrated their Christian beliefs into their writing, C.S. Lewis is perhaps the most famous and well-respected, both within and outside the faith community. His celebrated Narnia series is uncompromising[…]

Can the questions answered by science be unlimited or limited by what can be investigated?

December 9, 2008 askmeQuestions

We have to define science first –let’s say it is the body of knowledge formed through the scientific method of testing hypotheses against verifiable empirical data. It becomes clear that there are a range of[…]

difference between philosophy & science

September 19, 2008 askmePhilosophy

The simplest answer is that philosophy is concerned with questions of why whereas science is concerned with questions of how. In other words, if I ask “How do we convert coal to energy?”, that is[…]

Hi. If something is objectively true, does it have to fall within the realm of science, and does the fact that something does not fall within the realm of science prove its relativism? (Examples – art and ethics)

January 8, 2008 askmeArt

This is a great question. Unfortunately, the answer is surprisingly controversial and complex: The first challenge is figuring out what “objectively true” means. Most –but not all!– people believe there is a universe “out there”[…]

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Saints and Simulators

Chaos Monkey

MJD’s “Turing Test”

Science, Faith, and the Silver Chair

Can the questions answered by science be unlimited or limited by what can be investigated?

difference between philosophy & science

Hi. If something is objectively true, does it have to fall within the realm of science, and does the fact that something does not fall within the realm of science prove its relativism? (Examples – art and ethics)