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D2OTSSUMMERBUG

['Member']Joined: August 05, 2021 at 15:10Last active: April 08, 2023 at 06:306 discussions34 comments

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By the two dots I mean the two on Tai Chi.

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Never yet have I found the woman by whom I should like to have children, unless it be this woman whom I love: for I love thee, O Eternity! FOR I LOVE THEE, O ETERNITY!
-- Friedrich Nietzsche

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In: Pessimistic Communism v.s. Pessimism  — view comment
I don't have a clear concept of how our physiological reward system works so I can't give an exact answer. What if people 2000 years ago experience th...
February 11, 2022 at 22:33
In: (why we shouldn't have) Android Spouses  — view comment
Why would, or should, we humans want a spouse? Do we really have control over our sexual desire (though we may control our behavior caused by the desi...
February 09, 2022 at 02:38
In: Black woman on Supreme Court  — view comment
Do you really think justice is non-political? Do you really think justice depends on representation?
February 03, 2022 at 03:37
In: A Mathematical Interpretation of Wittgenstein's Rule Following Paradox  — view comment
Are patterns exactly equal to rules? Notice the difference between simply listing the array: 2, 4, 8 ... and requiring such array to: start from 2, mu...
January 28, 2022 at 05:30
In: Is Philosophy Sexist?  — view comment
Yes, and thanks for pointing out that we are assuming our reasons to be proper.
January 27, 2022 at 04:09
In: Is Philosophy Sexist?  — view comment
Sorry, I tend to unintentionally write long sentences. I meant that given how developed the modern morality system (of course I'm referring to the sli...
January 27, 2022 at 03:54
In: Is Philosophy Sexist?  — view comment
Ok, I see where you are leading at. The thing is, in many examples you raised the proper values or at least reactions in accordance to the values can ...
January 27, 2022 at 02:40
In: Is Philosophy Sexist?  — view comment
I don't think we are on the same topic here. Let's clarify our discrepancy in beliefs - I was trying to say that to be able to think differently from ...
January 26, 2022 at 22:37
In: Is Philosophy Sexist?  — view comment
While I agree that most differences in viewpoints, statements, and beliefs have nothing to do with reason itself and I myself hate "debates" whatsoeve...
January 25, 2022 at 05:03
In: Debate Discussion: "The content of belief is propositional".  — view comment
"To quite the contrary, it's always about the mouse, the tree, and the spatiotemporal relation between them; none of which are propositions." - @creat...
January 24, 2022 at 01:58
In: Is Philosophy Sexist?  — view comment
I do find signs from feminism and women's engagement in politics, etc. that women start to rethink the rules and values that are mostly men-framed and...
January 24, 2022 at 01:35
In: Is Philosophy Sexist?  — view comment
Hum, one thing I find about sex - the more I reflect on it the more I want to get rid of it. It's like some otherly pleasure imposed upon me through m...
January 24, 2022 at 01:22
In: Should Money Be Stripped from the Ideal Evaluation of Arts?  — view comment
I guess we'll have to keep bringing it up then since the problem is not addressed sufficiently and continues to worsen.
January 22, 2022 at 05:50
In: Should Money Be Stripped from the Ideal Evaluation of Arts?  — view comment
For example, you find out about an artist on the Internet and you really like his or her works. You want to support him or her. This is where the prob...
January 22, 2022 at 05:45
In: Should Money Be Stripped from the Ideal Evaluation of Arts?  — view comment
Is it really an agreement or enforcement by the more powerful, in this case, the wealthier, upon the less - but since the more powerful frame the lang...
January 22, 2022 at 05:26
In: Should Money Be Stripped from the Ideal Evaluation of Arts?  — view comment
Once you spend money to own it, a transaction is performed already, so it's already funged.
January 22, 2022 at 04:06
In: Should Money Be Stripped from the Ideal Evaluation of Arts?  — view comment
You see, I shouldn't have written philosophy with anger and I take responsibility for the inaccuracy of my language. But no, I am completely against o...
January 22, 2022 at 04:05
In: Should Money Be Stripped from the Ideal Evaluation of Arts?  — view comment
I didn't read for long, but it's from what I have read, it's actually well over 100 years: "The duration of copyright in these works is generally comp...
January 22, 2022 at 03:16
In: Zhuangtsu's Insight on Death: Some more Translations  — view comment
Thanks for the archive. The thing about the ancient Chinese text is that each character is so compact in both syntactic and semantic sense. So not to ...
August 19, 2021 at 03:19
In: Zhuangtsu's Insight on Death: Some more Translations  — view comment
There's a documentary regarding transhumanism called the Transcendent Man. Ray Kurzweil was the protagonist and he spent some significant part of the ...
August 18, 2021 at 07:44
In: Zhuangtsu's Insight on Death: Some more Translations  — view comment
I humbly accept your compliment. For these pieces, I've worked from the text and Chinese annotations. To be honest I wasn't all that into philosophy u...
August 18, 2021 at 07:33
In: Zhuangtsu's Insight on Death: Some more Translations  — view comment
This is a tricky paradox - why do all living minds tend to fear death while empirically it's a necessity? So far we've been extending the limits of li...
August 18, 2021 at 06:54
In: Examining Wittgenstein's statement, "The limits of my language mean the limits of my world"  — view comment
I'm afraid I can't afford to be called "acquainted with Wittgenstein" yet. I happened to skim through some of his works recently. Therefore, I would r...
August 09, 2021 at 15:21
In: Examining Wittgenstein's statement, "The limits of my language mean the limits of my world"  — view comment
As much as Wittgenstein expounded on the characteristics of language, he never gave a strict definition of what it to him actually is. As from Stanfor...
August 09, 2021 at 10:13
In: The Creativity of AI (an exerpt from recent writings)  — view comment
Yes, from the lyrics, I do find the program to be semantically incapable (assuming that it is not smart enough to form a new way of using words to com...
August 09, 2021 at 07:26
In: The Creativity of AI (an exerpt from recent writings)  — view comment
That was the point of my discussion there. Is the apparent "creativity" forever a mere reflection of humans' own creativity through algorithms on the ...
August 09, 2021 at 02:55
In: The Creativity of AI (an exerpt from recent writings)  — view comment
Weakly phrased my OP is, but I would consider your point as the first case that it discussed - creativity as a result of pre-existing instructions.
August 09, 2021 at 02:40
In: The Creativity of AI (an exerpt from recent writings)  — view comment
I think we have a slip here in taking the concept of creativity. What I meant here, as well as in the OP was whether creativity can emerge by itself o...
August 09, 2021 at 02:34
In: The Creativity of AI (an exerpt from recent writings)  — view comment
I'm afraid I cannot arrive at an immediate agreement on this one. It is true that asking ourselves the questions in SCAMPER facilitates the activation...
August 08, 2021 at 13:43
In: On Why I Never Assume the Existence of Value: Original Translation of Zhuangtsu's Work  — view comment
I think I have got your point to some extent. I did notice that a lot of what the Buddhist texts discuss are based on the context of "having arrived a...
August 06, 2021 at 13:53
In: On Why I Never Assume the Existence of Value: Original Translation of Zhuangtsu's Work  — view comment
As a new member, I had underestimated the number of responses I would have with this post, so the poll was more of a last-second whim. I phrased the s...
August 06, 2021 at 03:41
In: On Why I Never Assume the Existence of Value: Original Translation of Zhuangtsu's Work  — view comment
I'm no expert in Buddhism (as a matter of fact, philosophy in general), but I'd appreciate, if possible, some elaboration or sources of reading on the...
August 06, 2021 at 03:23
In: On Why I Never Assume the Existence of Value: Original Translation of Zhuangtsu's Work  — view comment
As a new member I was frankly surprised by the amount of reaction I get here. Thanks! A clearer way to put the second choice of the poll would be "val...
August 06, 2021 at 00:41
In: On Why I Never Assume the Existence of Value: Original Translation of Zhuangtsu's Work  — view comment
Thanks! I'm definitely checking Neil Tyson's essay out!
August 06, 2021 at 00:34
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