This song is entitled "Death is not Sexy," from the album The Science of Dreams. The idea behind this album (consisting of 11 songs, one of which is posted below) was to write music for and sing texts written by notable philosophers, scientists and mathematicians. The song below includes audio clips of Daniel Dennett discussing evolutionary theory, and the lyrics come from Kim Sterelny and Paul Griffiths' 1999 book Sex and Death (which I highly recommend to anyone interested in the Philosophy of Biology). I composed and performed (in my home studio, if one could call it that) the music (produced on a synthesizer) and sang the vocal parts.
The Coriolis Effect explores a wide variety of philosophical, scientific and theological issues, as well as my experience as a musician. At present, the focus is the Philosophy of Technology.
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- Phil Torres (born 1982) has a MS in neuroscience and spent a year as a visiting graduate student in the philosophy department at Harvard. He’s published numerous papers in academic journals like Erkenntnis, Metaphilosophy, Foresight and the Journal of Evolution and Technology; he is also an Affiliate Scholar at the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies, where he writes about the philosophical implications of advanced technologies. In addition, Phil is the creative force behind the experimental folk band Baobab (www.baobabtheband.com).
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- Doesn't God care about overpopulation?
- Pareidola and "the God illusion"
- Does reality have a liberal bias?
- Hitchens and Falwell
- Song #5
- Humanism vs. Scientism
- Song #4
- The Cavendish Principle
- Taking the Theism out of Christianity
- Song #3
- Song #2
- A Post of Combinatorial Creativity...
- Why Believe in Evolution? Why not accept Creationism?
- A Paradox of Historical Reconstruction
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My partner, Whitney (an MIT graduate student) and me.
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Humans are unique in Animalia for many reasons. For example, we use natural language to communicate, construct moral codes, theorize about the universe, invent religions and—neither last nor least—use clever recursive procedures to built artifacts from built artifacts, thereby yielding the complex sociotechnical systems of today. While these facts might be (and often are) adduced to support the thesis that humans are smart, my personal view is that Homo sapiens sapiens is quite possibly the stupidest species in evolutionary history—what other species, for example, has created the conditions necessary for the total annihilation of life on earth? (Indeed, the binomen 'Homo sapiens' is a complete misnomer!) Erich Fromm sums it up: We have the "know-how," but not the "know-why" or "know-what-for." The following links—a list that will grow as I come across interesting and relevant articles—support my view that humans are supremely stupid:
- Study reporting that NOT procreating brings happiness!
- On pharmaceuticals in public tap water
- On nuclear missiles being accidentally flown over the U.S.
- On a huge island of trash in the Pacific
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