Introduction
A Journey with John Horgan
by Jesse Emspak
Part 1: Consciousness: I Assume, Due to this fact I…?
1.1 How Do I Know I’m Not the Solely Acutely aware Being within the Universe?
1.2 I’m Agonizing over My Naive Realism
1.3 Free Will Is Actual
1.4 A Tremendous-Easy, Non-Quantum Principle of Everlasting Consciousness
Part 2: Quantum Mechanics
2.1 My Quantum Experiment
2.2 String Principle Does Not Win a Nobel, and I Win a Guess
2.3 Quantum Mechanics, Plato’s Cave and the Blind Piranha
2.4 What’s Fallacious with Physics?
2.5 Is the Schrödinger Equation True?
Part 3: Psychedelic Science
3.1 Tripping in LSD’s Birthplace: A Story for “Bicycle Day”
3.2 Tripping on Peyote in Navajo Nation
3.3 Sure, Make Psychedelics Legally Accessible, however Don’t Neglect the Dangers
3.4 DMT Is in Your Head, however It Could Be Too Bizarre for the Psychedelic Renaissance
Part 4: Soul Looking: Searching for the Divine
4.1 Quantum Mechanics, the Thoughts-Physique Drawback and Detrimental Theology
4.2 Why I Don’t Dig Buddhism
4.3 What Does It Really feel Prefer to Be Enlightened?
4.4 One of many World’s Most Highly effective Scientists Believes in Miracles
Part 5: Science and Society
5.1 Ought to We Chill Out about World Warming?
5.2 The Coronavirus and Proper-Wing Postmodernism
5.3 Revolt towards the Wealthy
5.4 Why STEM College students Want Humanities Programs
5.5 How Can We Curb the Unfold of Scientific Racism?
5.6 Will COVID-19 Make Us Extra Socialist?
Part 6: What Is Science, Anyway?
6.1 The Paradox of Karl Popper
6.2 What Thomas Kuhn Actually Thought of Scientific “Fact”
6.3 Was Thinker Paul Feyerabend Actually Science’s “Worst Enemy”?
6.4 Is Arithmetic, like Science, Pluralistic?
6.5 Science Ought to Not Attempt to Take up Faith and Different Methods of Figuring out
