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The Fecundity Alibi: How Unfalsifiability Masquerades as Progress. Weaponizing Real Science To Justify Problematic Metaphysics
ByNathan Sweet January 28, 2026January 29, 2026
Fecundity Without Falsification: The Universal Methodological Escape Hatch There is a reason serious philosophy of science has always insisted that fecundity be tethered to falsifiability. Once that tether is cut, fecundity ceases to be a criterion and becomes a permission slip. And permission slips, once issued, are not honored selectively. Serious philosophy of science treats…
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Critical Thinking | Epistemology | Falsification | Metaphysics | Ontology | Philosophy | Physics
The Metaphysics Audit: Tegmark’s MUH, Wolfram’s Ruliad, Levin’s Morphospace, Penrose-Hameroff’s Orch-OR, Senneshall’s Observer Theory, and More. Under Constraint-Based Falsification
ByNathan Sweet January 27, 2026January 29, 2026
A systematic evaluation of twenty-first century frameworks claiming to explain reality, from Platonic morphospace to mathematical universes to computational ruliad, using constraint-based falsification methodology. What survives scrutiny, what gets demoted to metaphor, and why the distinction matters. Part I: The Problem of Theories That Cannot Fail In 1950, philosopher Antony Flew posed a question that…
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Biology | Evolution | Metaphysics | Ontology | Philosophy | Physics
Does Evolution have… agency? Evolutionary Science Under Attack: Biologist Michael Levin’s Diverse Intelligence Framework
ByNathan Sweet January 23, 2026February 3, 2026
Michael Levin’s Diverse Intelligence Framework: A Critical Analysis Michael Levin’s framework for understanding evolution and cognition represents one of biology’s most ambitious attempts to reframe life itself as fundamentally intelligent, yet this ambition carries significant philosophical burdens that survive scrutiny unevenly. His core claims about genotype-to-phenotype conversion, Platonic pattern ingression, and causal emergence through agent fusion offer…
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Critical Thinking | Epistemology | Falsification | Metaphysics | Ontology | Philosophy
The Epistemological Collapse of Biblical Authority: Why Manuscript Evidence Cannot Establish Christian Truth Claims, and Why Both Theists and Atheists Often Miss the Point
ByNathan Sweet January 21, 2026January 28, 2026
Or: How to Win by Suffocation, Not Declaration There is a logical move hiding in plain sight that most critics of religion fail to make. Not because it is difficult, but because it is socially radioactive. The move does not disprove God. It does something far more devastating: it shows that the claim never successfully…
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bioelectricity-morphogenesis | Biology | Critical Thinking | Epistemology | Falsification | Metaphysics | Ontology | Philosophy | Physics
Is Michael Levin’s Platonic Morphogenesis Scientific? Brian Cheung’s Bidrectional Relational Convergence Research Reveals the Motte-Bailey Problem
ByNathan Sweet January 21, 2026February 2, 2026
Is Michael Levin’s Platonic Morphogenesis Scientific? From Darwin’s Dangerous Idea: “There is no such thing as philosophy-free science; there is only science whose philosophical baggage is taken on board without examination.” Daniel Dennett An analysis of how a strong naturalistic talk on convergence in biology and AI inadvertently undermines the Platonic metaphysics it was invited…
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bioelectricity-morphogenesis | Biology | Epistemology | Metaphysics | Ontology | Philosophy | Physics
Michael Levin’s Platonic Space Symposium Discussion #1: TAME, Distributed Agency vs Individual Intent
ByNathan Sweet January 21, 2026January 24, 2026
Michael Levin’s Platonic Space Symposium Discussion #1: TAME, Distributed Agency vs Individual Intent “A deepity is a proposition that seems both important and true—and profound—but that achieves this effect by being ambiguous. On one reading it is manifestly false, but it would be earth-shaking if it were true; on the other reading it is true…
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Critical Thinking | Epistemology | Falsification | Metaphysics | Ontology | Philosophy | Physics
The Empty Set Cannot Kill Physicalism: Timothy Williamson and the Reification Error
ByNathan Sweet January 19, 2026January 23, 2026
The Empty Set Argument Against Physicalism Curt Jaimungal recently posted a clip titled “The Empty Set Argument Against Physicalism,” featuring Timothy Williamson, widely regarded as one of the most formidable living philosophers. The title promises intellectual bloodsport: abstract mathematics cage-fighting material reality, two ontologies enter, one ontology leaves. Curt frames the stakes explicitly, noting in voiceover:…
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bioelectricity-morphogenesis | Biology | Critical Thinking | Epistemology | Evolution | Falsification | Metaphysics | Ontology | Philosophy | Physics
Michael Levin’s Platonic Spiral: Evolution or Unfalsifiable Circle?
ByNathan Sweet January 18, 2026January 23, 2026
“Competence without comprehension is the way of life of the vast majority of living things on the planet and should be the default presumption until we can demonstrate that some individual organisms really do, in one sense or another, understand what they are doing.” ― Daniel C. Dennett, From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of…
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Epistemology | Falsification | Metaphysics | Ontology
Professor Philip Goff “Responded” to my argument: Panpsychism, “Heretical Christian,” Unfalsifiability, and the Evasion
ByNathan Sweet January 15, 2026January 23, 2026
Panpsychism, “Heretical Christian,” Unfalsifiability, and the EvasionPanpsychism, “Heretical Christian,” Unfalsifiability, and the Evasion Our dear panpsychist Philosopher Philip sells “universal fine-tuning” the way late-night infomercials sell ab machines: if you squint hard enough at Bayes’ theorem, the universe secretly wants your love poems. The pitch hovers between cosmology and motivational speaking, but the universe doesn’t…
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Epistemology | Metaphysics | Ontology
The Manufactured Binary: How Linguistic Drift and Institutional Capture Created the Atheism-Theism Divide
ByNathan Sweet January 12, 2026February 1, 2026
“Religions are among the most powerful social systems ever devised, and they are not held in place by truth alone.” — Daniel C. Dennett, Breaking The Spell (2006) The debate between theism and atheism presents itself as a contest over facts: either God exists or God does not. This framing assumes both parties are arguing…
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