Robot Surgeon Removes Brain Tumor

• Dudes. Don’t call it a robot if it’s not a robot. It’s a remote-controlled manipulator. A good one, sounds like. But it’s not a robot.

Open Letter to the Scientific Community

• Have I mentioned lately that pure science is a market economy?

Star explodes halfway across universe

• Not only does the universe have an edge, but we know roughly where it’s located?

Discovery Challenges Finding of a Separate Human Species

• So one group of scientists is speculating in one direction, and another group of scientists is speculating in the other direction. What ever happened to reserving judgment until there’s enough data?

Ontology and Formal Semantics – Integration Overdue

• Overdue indeed. I became a semantician because I found the content representations being used in cognitive science were vacuous. Then I became an ontologist because I found the content representations being used in semantics were vacuous.
• Only with plausible, common-sense ontology can we ever do plausible, common-sesne semantics. Only with plausible, common-sense semantics can we ever do plausible, common-sense cognitive science. Only with plausible, common-sense cognitive science can we ever do plausible, common-sense social science. Only with plausible, common-sense social science can we ever design effective, evidence-based policies to put our society back on track.
• I guess that’s why they call it “integration”.

An empirical case against materialism

• Oh, the irony.

Bayesian Statistics

This only took 250 years or so to catch on.

Synopsis: The Empirical Stance

If you like the synopsis, read the book.

The National Center for Biomedical Ontology

Now if we could just get other communities of practice to get themselves this organized at ontologizing their domains.

What It’s Like and What’s Really Wrong with Physicalism: A Wittgensteinian Perspective

Wittgenstein rediscovered. News at 11.