i wonder if someone at work is a fan...

... of British sci-fi TV.  From the log of our (currently in beta) application:

19936 [main] DEBUG com.visiblepath.pathengine.service.impl.PathEngineServiceImpl  - Setting OMEGA Factor to:0.80001

i wonder if someone at work is a fan...

... of British sci-fi TV.  From the log of our (currently in beta) application:

19936 [main] DEBUG com.visiblepath.pathengine.service.impl.PathEngineServiceImpl  - Setting OMEGA Factor to:0.80001

the science of belief

I've been meaning to share this with you for months now, but i kept forgetting.  Something whipartist posted reminded me about it.

Despite the vast number of religions, nearly everyone in the world believes in the same things: the existence of a soul, an afterlife, miracles, and the divine creation of the universe.  Recently psychologists doing research on the minds of infants have discovered two related facts that may account for this phenomenon.  One: human beings come into the world with a predisposition to believe in supernatural phenomena.  And two: this predisposition is an incidental by-product of cognitive functioning gone awry.

The companion interview to this article, "Wired for Creationism?", should also be read.

the science of belief

I've been meaning to share this with you for months now, but i kept forgetting.  Something whipartist posted reminded me about it.

Despite the vast number of religions, nearly everyone in the world believes in the same things: the existence of a soul, an afterlife, miracles, and the divine creation of the universe.  Recently psychologists doing research on the minds of infants have discovered two related facts that may account for this phenomenon.  One: human beings come into the world with a predisposition to believe in supernatural phenomena.  And two: this predisposition is an incidental by-product of cognitive functioning gone awry.

The companion interview to this article, "Wired for Creationism?", should also be read.