Medium has been a side channel for me for a couple of years. Primarily blogging at www.psybertron.org with auto-publishing to this Medium page, but since the algorithm only handles the first publish, the post here on Medium if often a first / incomplete draft only, and rarely followed-up by me here on Medium. I will be trying out some original Medium posting from now on, and may reduce the original blog to personal pages and an archive of the previous 18 years of blogging.

I posted my take on the “inevitable” Brexit end-game early-December last year, and so far it’s still going exactly to plan (aka the “cunning plan”) as far as I can see. The enormous defeat of May’s deal in the house is the defeat intended. Put simply, the best Brexit deal…

I use memes / memetics as everyday language that fits with everyday social-mediated comms these days. How much #Brexit debate for example is about snappy branding of alternative solutions to the mess we’re in whether they are Unicorns or Norway models? How much smear or rhetorical marketing is involved in…

Interesting set of unrelated conversations throwing-up unexpected connections in the past week. After the recent exchange on pan-psychism ended with Massimo Pigliucci conceding …. …. I found in my reading of Mumford in connection with Russell’s metaphysics as a response to idealism, more specifically my doubts about that, I…

Sabine Hossenfelder blogged a few days ago short post with the title “Electrons Don’t Think”. For me it was an obvious straw-man click-bait headline against pan-psychism. Obviously, no sane philosopher or physicist suggests objects like electrons are sentient — beyond inevitable thought experiments which often confuse the unwary. So I…

Last day of 2018, and I’ve just dug out a new read to start 2019. “To some who know a little of Russell’s philosophy, it might seem strange to speak of him being engaged in metaphysics. He is often depicted as standing squarely in the empiricist tradition that had, on…

A short follow-up to my detailed post on discussions with Dr Mike Sutton, presenting on his “Nullius in Verba: Darwin’s Greatest Secret”. Firstly I’m NOT interested in arguing whether Darwin (and his bubble) told any untruths. I’m arguing about whether that makes any sense to therefore claim “Darwin was a…

Teesside Skeptics in the Pub had a talk from Dr Mike Sutton last night (6th Dec 2018). He presented the gist of his book “Nullius in Verba: Darwin’s Greatest Secret.” …

With things reaching fever-pitch in Westminster, and each hour reporting new strategies and predictions for next week’s vote and the consequences for May’s government and the country, the real danger is the get-on-with-it boredom sleepwalking us into a disaster. It’s been a cock-up — a divisive waste of national time…