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		<title>The Fundamental Axiom of Experience</title>
		<link>http://www.sidfaiwu.com/blog/index.php/2010/01/the-fundamental-axiom-of-experience/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2010 02:21:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Einstein famously said, &#8220;The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.&#8221; I believe one of the reasons this quote is so famous is because it hits upon a fundamental truth &#8211; past experience is a good predictor of future experience. Put more formally, inductive reasoning is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Cosmological Argument and the Deist Identity</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2009 17:31:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Theologically speaking, I self-identify as a &#8216;deist-agnostic&#8217;, which really functions no differently than modern atheism. I live my life as if there is no God. So why even use the &#8216;deist&#8217; label, why not just use &#8216;atheist&#8217; or even &#8216;agnostic&#8217;? Sometimes I do. It depends on the situation, the audience, and the level of detail [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Haidt vs. Doering</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2008 20:52:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a previeous post, I promised to write about a rebuttal to Jonathan Haidt&#8217;s model of human morality. The one I found most interesting was from Norm Doering. Haidt is trying to demonstrate that liberal morality is more contracted than conservatives. In particular, he describes five foundations of morality of which, liberals only concern themselves [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jonathan Haidt&#8217;s What Makes People Vote Republican?</title>
		<link>http://www.sidfaiwu.com/blog/index.php/2008/09/jonathan-haidts-what-makes-people-vote-republican/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Sep 2008 13:30:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of my favorite publications, Skeptic has weekly online content called eSkeptic. This week&#8217;s eSkeptic linked to an article on one of my favorite sites, Edge.org, by one of my favorite thinkers, Jonathan Haidt. Needless to say, I was excited. I blogged about Haidt in the past. Some of you may even remember the moral [...]]]></description>
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		<title>We Know What You Will Remember</title>
		<link>http://www.sidfaiwu.com/blog/index.php/2008/09/we-know-what-you-will-remember/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2008 15:30:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sidfaiwu</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There was an astonishing article in the New York Times yesterday. Basically, it&#8217;s about a team of researchers that found the first empirical evidence that supports a hereto-now theoretical explanation of how the brain recalls memories. When remembering something, the brain re-experiences the events being remembered to some extent. The very same neurons that fired [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Free Will &#8211; A Useful Fiction?</title>
		<link>http://www.sidfaiwu.com/blog/index.php/2008/08/free-will-a-useful-fiction/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Aug 2008 17:40:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sidfaiwu</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you want to answer the question and skip the back story, click here. Scientific American recently published an article about free will and morality. Previously, I&#8217;ve written about studies that demonstrate that not all of our apparent choices are free and how that impacts morality. Furthermore, there was an extended discussion about how free [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Richard Dawkins at TED 2005</title>
		<link>http://www.sidfaiwu.com/blog/index.php/2008/07/richard-dawkins-at-ted-2005/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jul 2008 18:52:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This talk gives such great perspective on our ability to understand the universe. Insight like this is why Dawkins is one of my intellectual heroes.]]></description>
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		<title>The Problem of Evil:  Part III</title>
		<link>http://www.sidfaiwu.com/blog/index.php/2008/06/the-problem-of-evil-part-iii/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2008 13:28:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God? -Epicurus I didn&#8217;t intend to write a Part III for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Copernican Revolution of the Personal</title>
		<link>http://www.sidfaiwu.com/blog/index.php/2008/06/the-copernican-revolution-of-the-personal/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2008 20:50:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We humans are so self-important. We once thought that we lived in the physical center of creation: everything revolved around us. Then, in the mid-16th century, Nicolaus Copernicus discovered that the Earth is not the center of the universe. Copernicus removed us from our priviledge place in physical creation. We are not the point of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Problem of Evil:  Part II</title>
		<link>http://www.sidfaiwu.com/blog/index.php/2008/06/the-problem-of-evil-part-ii/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2008 20:46:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sidfaiwu</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sidfaiwu.com/blog/?p=392</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God? -Epicurus This is Part II of my post on The [...]]]></description>
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