Bjornostman

LATEST ARTICLES ( 122 )

• Power is Corruption: Who Desires to Go into the Mines?

  

  Power exists in two forms. There is power over oneself, and there is power over others. To have power over oneself means that one has the physical capacity to... Read more

  Posted on 20 October 2026 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

• A Talk With Thrasymachus: Empathy Is a Leash

  

  [The following dialogue was conducted with Claude (Sonnet 4.6), instructed to act as Thrasymachus as consistently and honestly as possible]I am Thrasymachus. Read more

  Posted on 18 October 2026 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

• The Nominal Afterlife

  

  The text surfaced in the Obscuranti, an archive so designated for works that were practically forgotten, expected to compel no one. Read more

  Posted on 02 July 2026 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Anarcho-communalism: Towards Human Flourishing and Planetary Equilibrium

  

  Anarcho-communalism is a political philosophy grounded ini) voluntary association,ii) individual sovereignty, andiii) the expansion of empathy beyond kin and... Read more

  Posted on 26 June 2026 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Nominalist Determinism IV: The Supernatural

  

  We are told that the supernatural is the domain of religion, of spirituality, and lies outside of science. It is said that science deals with the natural world... Read more

  Posted on 25 June 2026 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Nominalist Determinism III: The Architecture of Rationality

  

  In Nominalist Determinism, the scrutinizing focus is the semantic audit. By addressing not only what words mean in the vernacular but also the limits of what... Read more

  Posted on 03 April 2026 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

• The Variable of Greed

  

  Economics as Human Habit in the Age of the Algorithmic Oligarchs (2020–2030)Greed was never a universal constant like the speed of light, but a programmable... Read more

  Posted on 01 April 2026 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Capitalist Ownership and the Illusion of AI Neutrality

  

  The modern discourse surrounding Artificial Intelligence often treats the technology as a "digital mind" with a neutral approach to human knowledge. Read more

  Posted on 18 March 2026 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Nominalist Determinism II: From Particles to Morality

  The Illusion of the ObserverThe Copenhagen interpretation of physics introduced a ghostly intruder: the observer. It claimed that the "wave function"—a... Read more

  Posted on 13 March 2026 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Nominalist Determinism and Intelligence

  

  I am a Nominalist Determinist. This is a declaration of war against "ghostly concepts" that have haunted biology and physics for a century. Read more

  Posted on 01 March 2026 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Violence in Entertainment Begets Violence in Society

  

  We live what we have wrought.Fargo seasons 1-5. Captivating, in excess.I am compelled to point out that such shows are symptoms of what we bemoan: violence is... Read more

  Posted on 23 January 2026 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

• The Art in the Random

  

  Art happens in our minds. Creation only requires that we recognize it. Random patterns take shape, and we see an image. The spectator becomes the artist. Read more

  Posted on 15 July 2024 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Fine-tuning is Not a Problem

  

  Fine-tuning of the universe is not a cogent objection. It gets causality wrong. The idea of a set of knobs that God tunes to get it just right for life to be... Read more

  Posted on 28 January 2024 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Epistemology with ChatGPT 4.0

  UserIn the sentence "you are just a machine that is good at putting words together, but has no real understanding, as you are not conscious", what are the... Read more

  Posted on 13 December 2023 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Spartophile

  [Conversations with ChatGPT 4.0]Me: Can you write a couple of paragraphs about the meaning of spartophile, and the benefits of eating fibre?ChatGPT 4. Read more

  Posted on 10 December 2023 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Hivestorm

  Hivestorm (noun, verb):A meta-brainstorm wherein the emphasis is on what the hive-mind can accomplish with higher probability than what any individual can... Read more

  Posted on 26 October 2022 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Rapidly Eyeball Abstract and Diagrams

  

  R.E.A.D. = Rapidly Eyeball Abstract and Diagrams"Did you read the paper by Østman et al. (2014)?""Yes, I READ it."What does it mean to read a paper? Read more

  Posted on 26 August 2021 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Coronavirus: A Matter of Tone?

  I had this conversation a little over a year ago, and I wonder how these four people have faired since, and whether any of them changed their minds or not.Perso... Read more

  Posted on 01 May 2021 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

• The Political Brainwashing by the Rich

  

  How to reach the people who think Obama is the anti-christ, the racists who think Democrats are communists, and those who believe the global climate crisis is... Read more

  Posted on 19 February 2020 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Ursuary

  

  ur·su·ar·y ˈər.suˌer.i Learn to pronounce noun noun: ursuary; plural noun: ursuaries a large cage, building, or enclosure for... Read more

  Posted on 11 July 2019 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE