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Alkis Piskas

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Very interesting. Thanks for bringing it up. :up: (I don't know however when I'll find the time to read all that --including @Wayfarer's recommendatio...
February 19, 2023 at 09:16
I, liked it! :up:
February 19, 2023 at 08:59
Thanks for your contribution to the topic. (Are you sure this is only "two cents"? :grin:) I see what you mean. But is just "survives" enough? Every o...
February 19, 2023 at 08:52
Thank you for your response to the topic. Certainly. Right, we can attribute to it different meanings. However, there is a scientific and precise defi...
February 19, 2023 at 08:03
Thank you for your response, Javi. Right. The concept fits to all conquerors. The will for and act of conquering comes from mental illness and is a fo...
February 19, 2023 at 07:41
Thank you for your response. This is what I said at the beginning. It was Spencer's idea: "Herbert Spencer (1820–1903) was an English philosopher who ...
February 19, 2023 at 06:43
The dialog that follows is fictitious. Any reference to real persons or aliens, living or dead, is purely coincidental. According to my report, we can...
February 17, 2023 at 07:37
In: Arche  — view comment
This is a translation of the Greek "?? ???? ?? ? ????? ??? ???? ?? ? ?????" (transliterated as "En archi in o logos kai Theos in o logos"), with which...
February 16, 2023 at 18:23
The payload was a dead alien travelling with the balloon. (Fans of "Area 55" are certain about this.) :grin: Good question. I also have a question: "W...
February 16, 2023 at 16:30
No-tech can also do that. Jackie Chan has demonstrated this many times. :grin:
February 16, 2023 at 16:24
OK. But if their nature is physical, shouldn't they be perceivable? Well, I wonder if the same question applies to the gods of the Greek and other myt...
February 16, 2023 at 07:31
All this is very interesting, Javi! I know almost nothing about Shinto religion, but from what you say I understand that these gods are physical in na...
February 15, 2023 at 18:29
I would rather say that the existence of God is inherently unprovable and unverifiable, since concepts are abstract ideas, not objects, hypotheses or ...
February 15, 2023 at 17:41
Of course person(ified) Gods are products of imagination. But not only that; single-entity Gods are depicted as males and referred to in the male gend...
February 15, 2023 at 16:37
In: Arche  — view comment
Why do you say all this about Siddhy? :smile:
February 14, 2023 at 10:09
In: Arche  — view comment
It looks like "arche" is indeed very important in philosophy. But only in a general sense,. E.g. for me, it isn't. And of course I undestand why you b...
February 14, 2023 at 09:01
In: Arche  — view comment
I think this interpretation is correct. The Greek word for "universe" is "??????" (sympan), which comes from the preposition"???" (= with, together) a...
February 14, 2023 at 08:34
In: Arche  — view comment
I read a little more about "kosmos" to see why Pythagoras used that word and what it meant to him. According to his biographer Iamblichus, "Pythagoras...
February 14, 2023 at 07:51
In: Arche  — view comment
True. The "magic" of the ancient Greek language was --and still is!-- that the words themselves most often contain their meaning. This can be easily s...
February 13, 2023 at 22:33
In: Arche  — view comment
Yes, this is the dictionary I was talking about :up: I have the monolingual version (Greek). But the term "kosmos" contains no reference about or hint...
February 13, 2023 at 22:06
In: Arche  — view comment
In my Great Lexicon of the Ancient Greek Language, the main definition of the word "cosmos" (??????, kosmos) is simply "order". The secondary definiti...
February 13, 2023 at 18:24
Interesting. I didn't know (or remember) that. I personally found (at that time) and I still find this method (Q & A) very interesting and productive....
February 11, 2023 at 06:13
I think I suffer from this kind of illness! Not Misologism (hatred of logic). The opposite: Philologism (love of logic) :grin: I'm a member of the sam...
February 10, 2023 at 20:21
This looks like a shady photo! Do we live in semi-darkness regarding ancient history? Maybe "having knowledge of everything"? Which is very plausible?...
February 10, 2023 at 15:43
Good point. And if Socrates actually said exactly that --I'm not always sure about the validity and/or exactness of his sayings as they have survived ...
February 10, 2023 at 11:19
In: Emergence  — view comment
No problem, universeness. Enjoy yourselves! :party:
February 09, 2023 at 18:08
Yes, this was the dialogue I was taking about. Thanks for bringing this :up: (up)! However, regarding Socrates, I'm not so much interested in his --an...
February 09, 2023 at 17:33
In: Emergence  — view comment
I said to myself, "What the hell, I might improve my Physics afterall!". So I gave it a try. Well, I believe my Physics were better before that! :grin...
February 09, 2023 at 16:58
I did. I also read the beginning of the homonymous article at https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/chinese-room/. The operation was successful, but the ...
February 09, 2023 at 08:30
Very interesting analysis. I had never digged into the subject of body and soul at the time I was reading about Socrates at school. But it was always ...
February 09, 2023 at 07:15
:chin: Exactly! So? Keep on ... (Maybe you are close to something I would really like to hear. Not only from you but from others too in here ...)
February 08, 2023 at 18:28
I think that the idea of having a soul (re: "my soul") contradicts with your nature and alienates you from it, because it creates a relationship betwe...
February 08, 2023 at 17:50
Another puzzle, perhaps overriding the above, is that humans forget that they create these puzzles themselves and then try to solve them as if they ex...
February 08, 2023 at 17:08
In: Emergence  — view comment
Keep digging into and insisting in quantum reality, as you do here, and you will get one! :grin:
February 08, 2023 at 16:39
In: Emergence  — view comment
OK
February 08, 2023 at 12:49
In: Emergence  — view comment
OK. You cannot take a picture of a frequency wave! Only of a sea wave! :grin:
February 08, 2023 at 11:42
In: Emergence  — view comment
Interesting. But do you have anything that shows that? Because until now, I have not seen any natural wave/frequency that is discrete. As I already me...
February 08, 2023 at 10:48
In: Emergence  — view comment
You mean that this is not continuous? https://cdn.britannica.com/46/246-050-7B31B5AE/voltage.jpg?w=300&h=300 Because if you think that this is not act...
February 07, 2023 at 17:47
In: Emergence  — view comment
Certainly not Maxwell's demon! He's a fake. (I was joking too, you know.)
February 05, 2023 at 11:00
Can't say ... You caught me off guard!
February 04, 2023 at 17:24
In: Emergence  — view comment
I have been advised not to talk about it!
February 04, 2023 at 17:16
In: Emergence  — view comment
The brain is a stimulus-response mechanism, composed of neurons and glia. It has as much "purpose" as any other machine or mechanism. Computer program...
February 04, 2023 at 16:49
In: Emergence  — view comment
What is the digital universe called? Metaverse: A digital universe that can be accessed through virtual reality. (https://edge.yewno.com/metaverse-a-d...
February 04, 2023 at 08:40
In: Emergence  — view comment
Definition of "analogue": Relating to or using signals or information represented by a continuously variable physical quantity such as spatial positio...
February 04, 2023 at 07:12
I cannot disagree with the things you say, well, except the main point I made! :smile: The passage I quoted shows clearly that the problem is scientif...
February 03, 2023 at 20:20
Good point! :up: This explains a lot.
February 03, 2023 at 18:58
From the aspect that you have Lock considering a problem close to the one about consciousness --because Lock doesn't speak about consciousness per se-...
February 03, 2023 at 18:45
I can understand this well. What I cannot undestand is how can science --and more specifically, talking about purely scientific subjects-- be so à la ...
February 03, 2023 at 18:08
I, on the other hand, am not surprised at all. I never attended to so many talks and in such frequency about science in any philosophical forum or com...
February 03, 2023 at 17:53
In: Emergence  — view comment
Certainly. This is what history, research and logic dictate. BTW, I just found a term for the kind of information you are talking about: biformation. ...
February 03, 2023 at 16:41