10Oct 2026 by Post

Being as Communion: The Metaphysics of Information

Angus Menuge, Aristotle, Ashgate, Being as Communion, blueprints, Brian Krouse, Claude Shannon, engineers, Evolutionary Informatics Lab, Faith & Science, Holy Spirit, information, informational realism, language, logos, metaphysics, mind-body problem, musicians, My Personal History with Information (series), No Free Lunch, ontology, painters, philosophy, Plato, Robert J. Marks II, sculptors, Templeton Foundation, The Mathematical Theory of Communication, Trinitarian God
"Painters create information by applying dabs of paint to canvas, sculptors by chiseling away at stone, musicians by writing notes on lined sheets of paper." Source
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22Jan 2026 by Post

Solzhenitsyn and the Demon of Evil: Peter Robinson, Ignat Solzhenitsyn in Conversation

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, artists, Atheism, Cavendish, Communism, continents, Dallas Conference on Science and Faith, earth, ethics, exile, Faith & Science, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Ignat Solzhenitsyn, Intelligent Design, interviews, music, musical instrument, musicians, Peter Robinson, pianists, Russia, Soviet Union, Stephen Meyer, Uncommon Knowledge, Vermont
The demon of evil circles, sometimes uncloaked, other times cloaked in various guises, including the guise of faith. Source
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11Jul 2025 by Post

Recurring Design Logic in Living Systems

attractants, Bacillus subtilis, bacteria, biological systems, biology, bioluminescence, chemotaxis, Complexity, Darwin's Black Box, E. coli, Evolution, genes, Intelligent Design, Jonathan McLatchie, Michael Behe, musicians, outer membrane, painters, poisons, proteins, Salmonella, signal transduction, sporulation, toxins
Architects, painters, musicians, and other creators apply recognizable patterns of thinking to their craft. Source
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14Sep 2023 by Post

Inferring the Best Explanation via Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence, Bayesian analysis, blues, boogie-woogie, ChatGPT, ChatGPT4, chess, country music, Culture & Ethics, Erik Larson, Google Bard, gun, hiccups, inference to the best explanation, musicians, Neuroscience & Mind, Noam Chomsky, piano, Stockfish, The Myth of Artificial Intelligence
The analogy with chess is apt — computers play chess but in ways different from us by being able to brute force their way through millions more positions. Source
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