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Randomness and unguided evolution in a clockwork universe
Think about how we instinctively connect randomness to a property inherent in a process, while it is, instead, a relative concept: What appears to be totally random in some experimental setup might...
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Why do we sleep?
People are usually surprised to know that, despite decades of research, science has no clear answer to the above question. The real function and evolutionary origin of sleep remain a mystery. Here I...
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“Spirit calls Nature” published!
The book “Spirit calls Nature” is ready and online! This was the most intellectually challenging work and research of my life, but it was definitely worth the effort. Modesty aside (I know that it...
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Diagnosing the teleological disease
In a Wiley Journal for science teacher education, Tim Hartelt et al. illumines us about “Teachers’ ability to diagnose and deal with alternative student conceptions of evolution” (the original article...
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Ukraine: how did the world get here?
Those who know me, know that almost 20 years ago I started running a blog (in Italian) about the Russian-Chechen conflict. I narrated for seven years the horror of the conflict in Chechnya, from July...
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And then we wonder why people don’t trust science?
A new study shows that there is no evidence for depression being caused by a “chemical imbalance” in the brain. “For three decades, people have been deluged with information suggesting that depression...
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Why are so many people antiscience?
In this paper we are informed why people don’t trust science, and what can be done about it. I’m not going to make the summary of it here, and that you can read in this article. While one can’t...
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AlphaFold Predicts The Structure of Almost Every Protein? Not exactly…
Last month, Google announced that its DeepMind AI program AlphaFold can ‘predict’ all the 200 million protein structures from 1 million species. This is, indeed, an impressive achievement. In a sense,...
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Mind-Brain Identity? Obvious Fact or Logical Fallacy?
One of the most typical unaware premises with which also professional neurologists and philosophers of mind work is what I call the ‘mind-brain-function fallacy’, and from which they jump to the...
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What is Life? An answer from the first-person perspective
Since the times of Plato and Aristotle, philosophers and scientists have questioned the nature of life. Is organic matter different from non-living one? Can life be explained away only with the laws of...
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