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I have been playing with a conception of free will as a sort of mental time travel: In making choices what we are doing is weighing future consequences. That weighing requires a kind of future modeling in which we mentally place ourselves in possible futures and then choose between those...

http://www.examiner.com/x-21239-Oakland-Skepticism-Examiner~y2010m2d16-Atheist-billboards-put-up-in-Sacramento-quickly-defaced Sweet sweet hypocrisy. Makes me so happy. The brilliant part is that by defacing the billboard the vandal both helped the billboard get nationwide coverage, made the...

I thought this TV show could be really awesome when I started watching it. Then the guy just made so many bad decisions that he seemed like more of a force for evil in the world than good. That of course had it's own interesting implications, is it so hard to use your power and influence to do...

I personally would love a link above or below the chat to the forums or rest of the site, as I occasionally close all my other windows and then have to go back to favorites to get back to forums from there. Just a minor issue but would be an easy addition. Everything looks great by the way!

A lack of jobs is something that I believe will be a growing problem in the coming century. There is a lot of room for temporary growth in the less industrialized nations, as we start to provide the sort of wealth that we all have been able to take advantage of to them. We see this going on in...

We were having a discussion in chat and I got banned. I find this unbelievable and reprehensible. Reetoric, I'm truly shocked you would resort to such blatent censorship. I had answered multiple questions of yours (though not to your satisfaction, apparently) and asked you a few. You...