outlookandinsight

Today JOI encountered one of the sillier conspiracy theories that pops up from time to time like a perennial weed. This is the claim that some politician’s speech contains code words or “dog whistles” to communicate subversive messages to his/her followers without his opponents catching on. (Some even have claimed that a politician’s speechwriters inserted […]

Socrates once said, “I know that I know nothing.” Was he right? Let’s think this through. First of all, we know, or rather have reason to suspect, that the universe must be very large and complex. (Assuming there is a universe.) The brain also appears complex, but must be less complex than the universe because