Showing posts with label Mathematics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mathematics. Show all posts

Wednesday, July 8, 2026

On Medium: “Rational Proof of God” is Oxymoronic

Read on about a bogus mathematical proof of God's existence, and how theistic apologists often forget how religions work.

Tuesday, June 24, 2025

On Medium: Scientists’ Mathematical Confusions about Natural Necessities

Here's an article about the need to pivot from quaint reassurances to cosmic horror, and how the emphasis on math in the hard sciences disinclines us to make that pivot.

Wednesday, April 9, 2025

On Medium: What is the Universe’s Godless Structure?

Read on about the role of mathematical abstraction in the absence of a divine plan, and the relevance of the two main senses of "structure" to metaphysics.

Thursday, August 31, 2023

On Medium: Mathematicians as Magicians: The Trick Behind their Pompous Formalities

Here's an article about the link between magic tricks and the misleading formalities of mathematics, and how positing formal structures helps master the environment.

Wednesday, August 23, 2023

On Medium: Why Scientists Don’t Understand the Inhuman Wilderness

Read on about how scientists use math to excel in mapping things without understanding them, and how transhumans might expand their intuition to encompass alienness.

Friday, July 14, 2023

On Medium: The Cosmic Poem that Spoils Galileo’s Bleak Equations

Read on about Galileo's scientistic metaphor of the “book of nature” that's written in the language of mathematics, the limits of science that nevertheless obtain, and why artists will finish the grand narrative.

Monday, May 22, 2023

On Medium: How the Youthful Universe Conjures its Structure

Read on about how thinking of nature as wild and as governed by laws is metaphorical, how those two metaphors are in conflict, and how to reconcile science and religion with pantheism.

Thursday, October 20, 2022

On Medium: Ploys for Exaggerating the Scientific Status of Economics

Read on about economic rationality, subjective value, and the neoclassical economist’s magic tricks that made her discipline seem more scientific than it could be.

Thursday, April 28, 2022

On Medium: Deflating the Miracle of Mathematics

Read on about the mathematical decryption of nature, the hierarchy of abstractions, and the usefulness of fictions and games.