Non-Existing Things: An Introduction to Fictional Characters Either fictional characters exist or they don’t. When speaking about Raskolnikov, land surveyor K., or Batman, it might appear that we make statements about actual people, especially to any eavesdroppers who aren’t aware that we’re speaking about fictional characters. “Honey, I overheard someone talking about an Continue Reading …
Information Theory and Metaphysics
Courtesy of listener Matt Gantner, here's a Scientific American article on "Why Information Can't Be the Basis of Reality." The author, John Horgan, criticizes information theorists like James Gleick who posit that information is somehow the basic structure of the universe (which seems to be a modern variation on Anaxagoras's idea that mind, or Nous, is the fundamental Continue Reading …