Metadelusion

I wasn't kidding about Climate Change Stress Disorder. Climate change is ruining my life. Just look at my reading list from the last co...

Regarding the alleged majority of voters who care about climate change: even if that's so and Obama is reelected, judging by Obama's...

@435 SecularAnimist: I think it is arguable that empiricism - which is the heart of science - is responsible for essentially all of humani...

James Hansen is sometimes accused of overstating his case, but I find him controversial for an entirely different reason: he consistently ...

Bruce Mau doesn't want to imagine a world without oil since it would be boring and bad for his business model, so you shouldn't t...

“The very idea that human beings, who are demonstrably unable to control our own most destructive behaviors, are going to be “stewards of t...

SA @307: Of course the cessation of human activities, such as the extraction and combustion of fossil fuels, that would accompany the disapp...

SecularAnimist @303 said: And social animals, including chimpanzees and wolves, clearly do have rights within the context of their social g...

Edward Greisch @ 296 said: Science is not "fundamentally progressive" Progressivism refers not only to the corresponding period...

SecularAnimist @183 said: The pathologically anthropocentric view that the world consists of (1) human beings and (2) “resources” for h...

Responding to SecularAnimist @183 on RealClimate Unforced Variations : "I am most concerned about 'saving' the Earth’s biosphe...

Responding to Edward Greisch @197 on RealClimate Unforced Variations : "Sociobiology has nothing whatsoever to do with eugenics....

In a discussion of climate change and its potential solutions, it's important to consider what we're saving, and what we're sav...

In response to Edward Greisch @ 147, commenting on previous Hubble post on RealClimate.org [list of sociobiology texts omitted]: "Sci...

According to Gallup, "Forty-six percent of Americans believe in the creationist view that God created humans in their present form at ...

Hi Chris, Happy birthday! Sorry not to hold up my end. But I did look at a whole bunch of Hubble images when I was in Vermont three weeks...

I did some background reading on science before my previous post. It seems both our positions fit reasonably well into known categories. My ...

There's stuff, in patterns. Patterns emerge from the stuff. Stuff emerges from the patterns. One or the other description may be more us...

Question 4 appears to be a trap. If I say that science is aesthetic, then it's merely subjective, in which case how is it any more ...

I will look at Hubble before I respond to post below or write more myself.  I haven't yet read your post below before posting these ques...

From my point of view the allegation that science is a delusion is as bizarre as Christians claiming to talk to Jesus every morning. It...

"whether our 'true nature,' fate and destiny is to live in competition and domination (power) or symbiosis and mutuality (whole...

A note about blogging: Because I have never blogged before, as we discussed, I am experiencing culture shock about how radically the blog...

"Are you opposed to power, on the grounds that authority is impossible without it?" This question is unanswerable to me becau...

On question 4, concerning the fate of the human species in terms of millions of years, this is the kind of question that contains so many of...

A first thought.  I am using the term "pure science" to refer to that science which distinguishes itself from applied science, and...

What scientist would willingly be called impure? Where is the journal of impure science?  Should Jasper Johns' paintings be destroye...

Reminder notes: issues arising within this conversation: what is the purpose of the conversation? - is the aim that one convinces the other...

Hi Chris !  Can't believe you got all this in here.  Is there a way to reverse the order or is always latest most recent?

I hope you'll include this discussion of the title in the blog!

sounds good.

FWIW here's a style reference supporting my contention that the hyphen is unnecessary . meta-analysis <= hyphen is required because ...

Hyphens aren't allowed in the blog URL, but I'm OK with using one in the title (which appears on each page) if you think it's im...

Sounds ok, but would a hypen be good?

I like structuraldelusion, but not collapseofcivilization which seems too general. Spiritual Liquidation was actually an anti-spiritual...

How about  metadelusion?? It has a similar meaning but it's shorter and catchier and only has very few hits in Google which is g...

I understand about the Ted issue and agree. I guess I don't want to use the word spiritual because I equate spirituality with delusio...

also available: collapseofcivilization structuraldelusion

I don't like surrogate activities, because that's Ted's thing and I don't want to have Ted's ideas about science come...

surrogateactivities is available! It's from a list I have of slogans you came up with. I tried mistakesweremade but it's already tak...

I'd just like to understand whether it's a blog that only we know about it, or if it's public in the sense of being of being pa...

OK I'll see what I can do. I think a blog would be the easiest, because they're dead easy to set up and don't require any mai...

That sounds fine, except that I wouldn't want to have to worry too much about expressing myself in good form.  I'm not sure if you ...

Would you be amenable to my making our dialogue into a web page? I could redact it to remove names or any other personal or identifying i...

I'm at work.  I'm sorry for not responding to the questions you raised, and I can't spend time right now with your current em...

The distinction you make between science and pure science has no basis in fact. There is no such category as pure science. What scientist ...

There are two easy to address areas where I think you misunderstand me. One is, I am not at all confused about the separation between th...