Dr Bruce Long. PhD Philosophy, BA Hons 1 (Philosophy), M Phil. (English), B App Sc. (Computing).
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Saturday 19 November 2022
Sunday 23 October 2022
New Substack, new free post: Conspiracy theories and theistic-megacultism (theist religion), abductive inference, and psychological evidence.
An introductory and academic-blog-level tutorial about philosophical argumentation combined with a demonstration that megacultist-theist (religious theist) belief is a direct form of conspiracy theoretic belief. If you don't agree demons and Satan will get you. And if they don't some kind of god will.
Conspiracy theories and theistic-megacultism (theist religion), abductive inference, reductios, and psychological evidence., by @longbulusiboshi https://t.co/n0x19EcXBT
— Bruce Long (@longbulusiboshi) October 23, 2022
Monday 17 October 2022
New Course Syllabus: Naturalistic Metaphysics (Advanced)
Wednesday 12 October 2022
Unpopular Philosophy of Psychology of Religion: Megacultism as a mental disorder.
— The Institute for Informational Metaphysics (@info_onto_iimx) October 11, 2022
Tuesday 11 October 2022
New Course Syllabus: Introduction to The Philosophy of Information
Friday 7 October 2022
New Course Syllabus: The Informational Turn In Philosophy (Advanced)
I have updated the course to provide an advanced version.
Thursday 6 October 2022
New Course Syllabus: The Informational Turn In Philosophy
Saturday 16 July 2022
Public philosophy happens...
PDMT or The Probabilistic Difference Maker Theory (Scarantino and Piccinini), Deacon's systems theory and Percian semiotics based 'absence' theory, and Floridi's transcendental binary relation reduction all have two things in common: 1 They're all theories (or perhaps more of
— Bruce Long 龙布鲁斯博士 (@longbulusiboshi) July 16, 2022
Any sufficiently complex information processor *might* do. There is the question of whether the material constituents of the processing system matter. It could be that neuroprotein circuits and synapses, or something very like them, are necessary conditions. #consciousness https://t.co/ZHuyhWPlUV
— Bruce Long 龙布鲁斯博士 (@longbulusiboshi) July 14, 2022
Natural information that inheres in natural systems is not alethic. It's not something that has the property of being true or false (or even only true). This is a statement of rejection of the veridicality thesis. You've either got an encoded representation (signal/message)
— Bruce Long 龙布鲁斯博士 (@longbulusiboshi) July 14, 2022