Gene Callahan has posted a link to an interesting article describing how plants respond to signals from other plants in their enviroment and alternatively cooperate or compete with neighboring plants, depending on degree of kinship.
It has come to my attention that Gene Callahan has responded to my remarks regarding "objective moral truths" that I noted here . Rather than continuing the long threadjack of an unrelated post by Bob Murphy (on climate change science), I copy and respond below to Gene`s remarks: 1. Gene :...
A recent post by the prolifically productive Bob Murphy , " A Quick Note from Baltimore ", provides an opportunity for further thoughts on my continuing effort to puzzle out what Bob and Gene Callahan mean by their insistence that there is an objective moral order to the universe, and on what...
[Note: I find that Bob Murphy deleted the comment thread.] Allow me to draw the curious reader`s attention to the latest post by Bob Murphy on the subject of mind, the brain and what is "real". Again, the ensuing conversation suffers from confusion since Murphy refuses to clarify what he means...
[Well, the Mises server just swallowed my first attempt at this post, so the reader will just have to suffer this sketchier one.] I have been chasing both Gene Callahan and Bob Murphy to try to get them to spell out what they mean when they assert that there is an "objective moral order" in...
Your foolish reporter, having rushed in where even angels like Bob Murphy fear to tread, now reports the latest "unreal", or at least the rather unbelievable, turn of events (and non-events), at Gene Callahan `s Crash Landing blog. Readers may recall my earlier report regarding Mr. Callahan...
[Update: Happy news! The subject blog post, once non-existent, has (been) resurrected ! Discussions, with a decided acerbic philosopher-king, continue!] [Update part Deux: Unfortunately, as noted elsewhere , our ill-humored host has closed out his blog post, after deleting my response to a string of...
I make no pretense of having any formal training in philosophy, but it strikes me that the answer is no. I post here a few thoughts I penned in an exchange with Gene Callahan at his blog, Crash Landing on May 18 and 19, in connection with conversation that Gene was conducting with budding philosopher...