Skeptophilia

Fighting Gullibility with Sarcasm, 6 days a week

Showing posts with label causality. Show all posts
Showing posts with label causality. Show all posts
Monday, May 12, 2025

Djinn and paradox

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In the very peculiar Doctor Who  episode "Joy to the World," the character of Joy Almondo is being controlled by a device inside a...
Friday, January 10, 2025

Defanging the basilisk

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The science fiction trope of a sentient AI turning on the humans, either through some sort of misguided interpretation of its own programmin...
Wednesday, January 20, 2021

The illusion of causality

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Fighting bad thinking is an uphill battle, sometimes.  Not only, or even primarily, because there's so much of it out there; the real pr...
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Saturday, August 24, 2019

Order of operations

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I try not to write in Skeptophilia  about topics I don't fully understand -- well, at least understand as fully as my brainpower and the...
Wednesday, January 2, 2019

Paradoxes within paradoxes

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Sometimes the simplest, most innocuous-seeming questions can lead toward mind-blowingly profound answers. I remember distinctly running in...
Saturday, August 25, 2018

Cart both before and after the horse

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Let's end the week on a happy, if surreal, note with a new experiment in quantum physics that calls into question the arrow of time. T...
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Gordon Bonnet
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