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Alkis Piskas

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In: Emergence  — view comment
It was a simple question: "Only life can be aware? How do you know this?" How could I missed it? :grin: I have certainly answered you. Regarding both ...
February 28, 2023 at 11:01
In: Emergence  — view comment
You mean, what are my arguments about this, right? Because we all know things, don't we? So my argument is the following: All living organisms respond...
February 28, 2023 at 08:20
In: Emergence  — view comment
Oh, I was not meaning to invalidate your knowledge, @universeness! I'm very sorry about that! Really. :sad: I most probably pushed it to far. I do tha...
February 28, 2023 at 07:51
In: Emergence  — view comment
Proposed as what? (I just read the first para of the article to which your link refers to and it talks about an observation, not a proposition. Anyway...
February 28, 2023 at 07:36
I don't know where does this question refer to ... :chin: But as an independent question --e.g. a new topic :smile:-- my answer is maybe. It depends w...
February 28, 2023 at 06:52
OK.
February 27, 2023 at 19:13
Most probably, you mean an entitity, a living organism. Which is a special case. You can't generalize it and apply it to inanimate things, can you? Th...
February 27, 2023 at 19:05
Why am I not surprised? :smile: Good reference, BTW. :up: (Although I disagree with a few things.) Here's the link for thos who want to read more: htt...
February 27, 2023 at 19:00
What is your answer? I have checked a few other messages/comments that follow your description of the topic but couldn't find it. Maybe you have alrea...
February 27, 2023 at 18:34
In: Emergence  — view comment
What does this exactly mean? The term "Artificial Superintelligence (ASI)" is exaggerated. There's no actually such a thing as "artificial superintell...
February 27, 2023 at 17:53
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February 27, 2023 at 17:21
I believe you are right, @unenlightened. Besides, I think I was the first to bring in mythology and patriarchy in this thread as part of the "sexism" ...
February 26, 2023 at 10:31
Crone, like the bagpie? I don't find it ugly at all. It's a great bird: proud, strong, energetic, intelligent and beautiful. Right. Better not. :smile...
February 26, 2023 at 08:02
Interesting indeed. Hijabs, long women dresses and customs are totally the opposite of the provocative momen styles in our "Christian" world! I know w...
February 26, 2023 at 07:43
You have a point there.
February 25, 2023 at 18:16
I can't say much, but it is quite possible. However, we cannot compare goddesses with mortal women. We cannot even compare the status of the empresses...
February 25, 2023 at 18:09
Interesting. But doesn't all this have to do with Gallic/Celtic myths, the druids, etc. rather than Greek mythology? And I believe it is impossble tha...
February 25, 2023 at 17:41
While googling about misogyny in ancient Greece, I fell on a Quora question "Why were the ancient Greeks so sexist against women?", to which I answere...
February 25, 2023 at 13:08
All this is quite inteesting. Right. As I said, there was no God in ancient Greek religion, phiosophy or beliefs. Only gods. Socrates was accused --am...
February 25, 2023 at 11:00
In my Geek Lexikon there's no main definition of "????" (pr. theós) (= god) or even a single definition. . Instead it has been interpreted in various ...
February 25, 2023 at 08:30
Right. Good point. :up: Good idea! :up: Here they are again! :smile: I like that. More logical. Nice! I always believe that the story of Eve, the appl...
February 24, 2023 at 19:31
I dislike this guy a lot. He is the one responsible for the myth of the resurrection and the wrong road that Christianity followed, based on fake stor...
February 24, 2023 at 17:23
Ola! I had a look at "Dialects of Greek". Well, this is too much for me. I mean, I never performed well in history although I was a B+ student at scho...
February 24, 2023 at 09:54
Ha, ha, ha! OK, then, since there's public in the room! :grin: (Only, as far as I am concerned, I will be back tomorrow ... It's late here.)
February 23, 2023 at 19:03
In short, a real mess! :grin: True. I liked that. :up: As in every other language, I guess. (I don't know though about the Eskimo language! :grin:) Ri...
February 23, 2023 at 19:00
Nice passage. Looks interesting. I'll check it. Ionians were one of the four maain tribes Greeks derived from. You can check https://en.wikipedia.org/...
February 23, 2023 at 18:44
I don't know how is reading him in a foreign language, as good as the translation may be. For me, a big part of the value of his works lies in his lan...
February 23, 2023 at 17:20
I believe they wanted to bring the official language closest to the language simple, lay people speak, esp. in rural areas and villages. Communism was...
February 23, 2023 at 13:08
OK "Guidelines for Non-Sexist Use of Language"! :grin: I know about the issues of sexism in languages, but I couldn't imagine it could go that high in...
February 23, 2023 at 10:16
All Latin languages --Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, French-- have endings. English and Greek languages have too. In Greek, even the second names are d...
February 23, 2023 at 07:16
I can undestand that the construction of "'s" alludes to sexism, after I read the following etymology in Wiktionary: "From Middle English -s, -es, fro...
February 22, 2023 at 22:09
Gracias. I'll come back to this after I read your reference ...
February 22, 2023 at 20:04
Ola! Can you give me the reference about your OP and the rest so that I can know what you two are talking about? Thank you for using me as a reference...
February 22, 2023 at 19:30
Thank you for participating in this discussion. This is very interesting. Good that you brought it up. :up:
February 21, 2023 at 18:06
Thank you for participating in this discussion. This sound interesting and I would like to know more about it. No, it doesn't support racism. It's rac...
February 21, 2023 at 17:56
Thank you for participating in this discussion. Natural selection is of course the main element in the evolution of life. But it leaves out a lot of o...
February 21, 2023 at 17:18
Thank you for your response to the topic. All this looks interesting, but unfortunately I cannot undestand much of it since I totally lack the necessa...
February 20, 2023 at 18:31
OK. Thank you for your contribution to the topic.
February 20, 2023 at 16:09
I have never questioned Darwin's ethics. Neither do the references I have found --some of which I have brought in here-- that are opposed to some aspe...
February 20, 2023 at 08:43
I have no doubt about that. And, as I do not recall well about the work(s) a I read from him in college, I'm not in a position to judge it (them) at p...
February 20, 2023 at 05:58
The references I brought up talk also about influences ouside science. Darwin’s influence is far from limited to science. His work has influenced a wi...
February 19, 2023 at 23:19
Thanks for the clarification. :smile:
February 19, 2023 at 22:50
Because Darwin is still relevant today. Because his evolution theory and his works in general had a huge impact on the scientific world and our lives....
February 19, 2023 at 22:46
Agree. Agree. Right You lost me here! :grin: But it's OK. Not important. Right. As I mentioned to @Vera Mont earlier, words and semantics here are no ...
February 19, 2023 at 22:14
No. But I believe it's a question for today, and not only for biology ...
February 19, 2023 at 18:39
My remark about words and semantics referred to the element of language, based on what you said: "he couldn't have foreseen what the future speakers o...
February 19, 2023 at 17:14
Right. It's a comfort! :grin:
February 19, 2023 at 10:24
Indeed, it applies to us in every sense. And IMO more than to animals, esp. in the sense of "strongest" or "more suitable for survival", which --for b...
February 19, 2023 at 10:19
I made a correction in an earlier comment about that: it was Alfred Russel Wallace, not Spencer himself who talked to and persuaded Darwin about "surv...
February 19, 2023 at 10:06