(Sci Am, 2017) TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Introduction 2. The Easy Part: Why 1=0.999 … 3. The Hard Part: Why ~ (1=0.999 …) is True as Well 4. Compatibility with the Standard Real Number Axioms 5. The Archimedean Principle Objection 6. A Tangent: Refuting Cantor’s Diagonal Argument 7. Conclusion The essay below has been published … [continue reading]
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Why 1=.999… and ~ (1=.999…) are Both True! An Argument for the Inconsistency of the Reals, #1.
(Sci Am, 2017) TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Introduction 2. The Easy Part: Why 1=0.999 … 3. The Hard Part: Why ~ (1=0.999 …) is True as Well 4. Compatibility with the Standard Real Number Axioms 5. The Archimedean Principle Objection 6. A Tangent: Refuting Cantor’s Diagonal Argument 7. Conclusion The essay below will be published … [continue reading]
Mind, Mechanism, and Materialism: The Case Against the Computational Theory of Mind and Artificial General Intelligence, #6.
“Homo Machina (Machine Man),” by Fritz Kahn (Redbubble, 2025) TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Introduction 2. The Present Limits of AI: Empirical Considerations 3. Philosophical Arguments Against Artificial General Intelligence 4. Robert Hanna’s Systematic Challenge to Computational Mechanism 5. Neuroscientific Evidence Against Digital Computationism 6. Leading Theories of Consciousness: A Critical Analysis of Their Limitations 7. … [continue reading]
Mind, Mechanism, and Materialism: The Case Against the Computational Theory of Mind and Artificial General Intelligence, #5.
“Homo Machina (Machine Man),” by Fritz Kahn (Redbubble, 2025) TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Introduction 2. The Present Limits of AI: Empirical Considerations 3. Philosophical Arguments Against Artificial General Intelligence 4. Robert Hanna’s Systematic Challenge to Computational Mechanism 5. Neuroscientific Evidence Against Digital Computationism 6. Leading Theories of Consciousness: A Critical Analysis of Their Limitations 7. … [continue reading]
Mind, Mechanism, and Materialism: The Case Against the Computational Theory of Mind and Artificial General Intelligence, #4.
“Homo Machina (Machine Man),” by Fritz Kahn (Redbubble, 2025) TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Introduction 2. The Present Limits of AI: Empirical Considerations 3. Philosophical Arguments Against Artificial General Intelligence 4. Robert Hanna’s Systematic Challenge to Computational Mechanism 5. Neuroscientific Evidence Against Digital Computationism 6. Leading Theories of Consciousness: A Critical Analysis of Their Limitations 7. … [continue reading]
Mind, Mechanism, and Materialism: The Case Against the Computational Theory of Mind and Artificial General Intelligence, #3.
“Homo Machina (Machine Man),” by Fritz Kahn (Redbubble, 2025) TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Introduction 2. The Present Limits of AI: Empirical Considerations 3. Philosophical Arguments Against Artificial General Intelligence 4. Robert Hanna’s Systematic Challenge to Computational Mechanism 5. Neuroscientific Evidence Against Digital Computationism 6. Leading Theories of Consciousness: A Critical Analysis of Their Limitations 7. … [continue reading]
Mind, Mechanism, and Materialism: The Case Against the Computational Theory of Mind and Artificial General Intelligence, #2.
“Homo Machina (Machine Man),” by Fritz Kahn (Redbubble, 2025) TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Introduction 2. The Present Limits of AI: Empirical Considerations 3. Philosophical Arguments Against Artificial General Intelligence 4. Robert Hanna’s Systematic Challenge to Computational Mechanism 5. Neuroscientific Evidence Against Digital Computationism 6. Leading Theories of Consciousness: A Critical Analysis of Their Limitations 7. … [continue reading]
Mind, Mechanism, and Materialism: The Case Against the Computational Theory of Mind and Artificial General Intelligence, #1.
“Homo Machina (Machine Man),” by Fritz Kahn (Redbubble, 2025) TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Introduction 2. The Present Limits of AI: Empirical Considerations 3. Philosophical Arguments Against Artificial General Intelligence 4. Robert Hanna’s Systematic Challenge to Computational Mechanism 5. Neuroscientific Evidence Against Digital Computationism 6. Leading Theories of Consciousness: A Critical Analysis of Their Limitations 7. … [continue reading]
Do Not Adjust Your Mind, There’s a Fault in Reality Philosophy: The Cosmic Glitch Hypothesis as a Satirical Response to The Simulation Hypothesis, #3.
(Neill, 2019) TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Introduction 2. A Critique of the Bostrom Simulation Argument 3. Other Work on The Simulation Hypothesis 4. Part A: The Glitch Hypothesis 5. Part B: The Absurdity of Section 4 and Professional Academic Philosophy The essay below will be published in four installments: this one, the third, contains section … [continue reading]
Do Not Adjust Your Mind, There’s a Fault in Reality Philosophy: The Cosmic Glitch Hypothesis as a Satirical Response to The Simulation Hypothesis, #2.
(Neill, 2019) TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Introduction 2. A Critique of the Bostrom Simulation Argument 3. Other Work on The Simulation Hypothesis 4. Part A: The Glitch Hypothesis 5. Part B: The Absurdity of Section 4 and Professional Academic Philosophy The essay below will be published in four installments: this one, the second, contains section … [continue reading]