The Problem of Physical Interaction
Reductive physicalism undermines itself and cannot explain how interaction happens at all.
Steve Patterson
in pursuit of truth
Latest posts
Geometry as Logic
Mathematics is an extension of logic. Every domain in mathematics can be reduced to logic.
Everything in Discrete Space
I’m working through the implications of discrete space and am starting to build some intriguing intuitions. I am trying to reduce the physical world down to a bunch of geometric atoms changing state—essentially, to a grid of voxels. I don’t claim the following is true, only that it’s a coherent way to explain a bunch […]
Information and Spirit
The spiritual domain heavily overlaps the informational domain—the world of patterns. I don’t think there’s a complete reduction of one domain to the other, but there is considerable overlap. Consider a few spiritual ideas. “Telling the truth is of spiritual importance. Lies destroy, while the truth heals.” This is not a claim about atoms or […]
Why We Need to Replace Mathematics
I was recently impressed by a series of tweets from Joscha Bach. I’ve never heard somebody use this language before. That’s a wonderful and provocative notion that accords with my own quixotic ideas. Perhaps we don’t need to reform mathematics, but replace it altogether. That sounds like fun. What’s wrong with math? If you ask a computer scientist, they […]
4 Steps to the Immaterial
Immaterial things are hard to understand, and taking their existence seriously has been unfashionable for centuries. Modern materialists have gotten comfortable simply defining them or laughing them out of existence. But since my philosophical conversion to Platonism, I now think that immaterial stuff is way more important than material stuff—and there’s even a meaningful sense in […]
Interview w/Bob Murphy on the Mind-body Problem
I recently did an interview with Bob Murphy on our attempted resolutions the mind-body problem. You might enjoy it. Years ago, I wrote an article explaining my own theory of indirect interaction. For some silly reason, I never created any visuals to go along with the article, though they would have helped immensely. So that was corrected in […]
Interview on “The Digger” with Phil Harper
Very enjoyable conversation with Phil Harper on the Dark Age Hypothesis. We get into some deep concepts. Link here:
New Book about Bitcoin!
As many of you know, I’ve been working on a new book about Bitcoin for the last few years, and it’s finally ready! It is a collaboration with Roger Ver (aka “Bitcoin Jesus”), and we tell the story of how BTC was slowly hijacked over a period of several years. “This is the book that had to […]
Apriorist Geometry and Curved Space
Countless thinkers for the past two thousand years have appealed to Euclidean geometry as an example of rock-solid reasoning. The proofs in Euclid’s Elements are beautiful deductive structures. One proof builds on the next, and by accepting the starting axioms, you are compelled to agree with the final conclusions. The geometric objects within Euclid have properties which […]