Showing posts with label design. Show all posts
Showing posts with label design. Show all posts

Thursday, November 18, 2010

Design in the Mind's Eye

Here's an interesting approach to explaining the seeming complexity, order, and functionality of the universe: maybe it's all in our mind.

Psychologist Paul Bloom argues that we see intentional design and patterns too much... including in things that are actually random. So things that seem so fine-tuned and unlikely from our perspective might not actually be. Here's a video dialogue on this topic:


Bloom has two great books (Descartes' Baby and How Children Learn the Meaning of Words) on how our minds develop from early childhood on.

Tuesday, November 9, 2010

Like a Machine, Only More So

Here are some links on the design argument for God's existence.

And We Thought You Were Useless, Mr. Appendix