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I fully agree that the disparity between the masses and the elite has widened to such an extent that we are almost living back in aristocratic world. ...

Ok, I guess I would call creativity, experimentation, but again potatoes, potartos. It's a fair enough point, throwing out change allows adaptation ag...

I'm not sure if you agree with my point or are against it. Your first paragraph seemed against it, the second seemed to confirm it. It should be recog...

Ha,ha, I knew you wouldn't like the decoder remark. I have no position on it at all to be honest, potato potarto, but I am starting to consider the wh...

It is true that there is a lot of hardwired skills in animals, like nest building. There's also plenty of evidence of animals understanding the applic...

I'll check it out.

I totally agree that survival is a side effect without purpose. In a previous post on the arrow of time I equated it to falling sideways through a pla...

I like this quote. Self assembling atoms that have taken the form of life and the lifeless. I agree on that too, to a certain extent. Back in 1905 whe...

The point on animals and their creations is a good one. Man holds himself too much apart from other animals and it's just not the case. So much of wha...

I didn't study philosophy at uni, so I can't be of much help in regard to your thinkers, but I have still been thinking of Hoffman today, and return t...

Darthbarracuda, you might enjoy this if you haven't seen it before, it's along the lines of your OP. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7W33HRc1A6c

It is incredible to think that the very same atoms that make life can be milked in such ways to create our animated technological world. The fact that...

Your welcome Wayfarer. It's not surprising he only mentions QM in passing, I think he might want to downplay the link. I don't think I'm the one mixin...

Hi Wayfarer, I watched the video and found it very interesting. It seems like what Hoffman is asserting is a simple derivation from Quantum Mechanics....

Based on the observation above that Particles at constant velocity behave like static fields, and seem to violate the observation that all fields move...

I've been reading up on QM and fields and have found an article from which I have drawn some conclusions. Do you agree? https://www.quora.com/Why-is-a...

Thanks guys, time to hit the books for a while.

Hi guys, by potency and act, is the shorthand for potential (energy) and kinetic/actualised (energy)? If so, it would seem that chaos and order would ...

I will certainly check out those references. I am building quite a long list of things to check out, thanks to these discussions. I had a quick look a...

These terms describe properties of the moving object. They don't explain the object itself.

https://futurism.com/why-do-objects-increase-in-mass-as-they-get-faster-2/ https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/difference-between-energy-and-force.7...

After reading “Relativity in a Nutshell – Abridged Version” I came away with some ideas that for years I have let ruminate, only giving expression to ...

And to think this site is one of the biggest philosophical sites on the net, if I was trying to get an edge or new insight I'd be reading your posts v...

Hi Jake, this topic is going to in a lot of directions, including the nature of velocity, but I just want to get a baseline of agreement to build on. ...

Hi Jake, the field only represents the velocity in that at its zero displacement from centre, it has zero velocity. The field represents acceleration.

Let me change tact here to try and get rid of some clutter I've been introducing. Imagine a magnet in an electromagnetic field. We control the strengt...

I want to get to that Jake, for the time being though, I can't see how its prohibitive to the thought experiment. We can still imagine an asymmetry in...

Thanks Rich, that clears it up a fair bit actually - and adds a bit more confusion. :0

Fair point, we would need a time value on our input boxes, say 20000 joules over 5 seconds. It would be leaping into acceleration. Once the energy was...

You don't type that in. You type in North, 20,000.... Joules, and the energy field of the atoms is no longer symetrically distributed about the nucleu...

Hi Sam, so you just want to know how we would evaluate if the testimony is plausible, and not discuss what might be happening in NDEs? Ok, well, how d...

This topic has split into two different topics, both of which I find equally fascinating. The first is of motion and time and the second of the intrin...

Yeah, that's a good way of putting John.

You guys really know your philosophy, but I'd like to add to this boundary question the idea of 0.9 repeater. It goes on for infinity, but it never re...

I also think its intelligent design, but I don't think we are the sculpture, or anyone or anything else. I think the design is in atoms. The outcome i...

Hi Harry, I think we have two issues here that are often conflated here by science. Firstly is an innate sense of a God in a lot of people from all wa...

Hi Praxis, I take your point. That sounds like the better explanation.

Hi Arkady, I agree, that God created Man and said bah to every other lifeform is nuts. Rather than God created the universe I propose that God is the ...

I've been thinking a lot about your pointilism problem, and it seems like an easy fix. First, here's what I think the problem is. Between each interva...

The brain's job is to interpret its sensations. There are reported incidents of people losing part of their vision and the brain literally filling it ...

On the idea of good and bad, it seems like that is in the eye of the beholder. I someone wants to stop you and they throw a rock at you, but I catch i...

There was this guy I know. His name was Pavlov. He had a dog too.

Symbolic language is the common language of all animals. It is the most fundamental aspect of language. Animals read gestures and make gestures to be ...

It sounds like you're living the high life.

You two need to get out more.

Hi Darthbarracude, Richard Dawkins doesn't agree. He is the one bringing the fight. Check on YouTube.

I don't think that man is a biological parasite that has wormed its way into self-replicating women's lives, simply because they wouldn't have been wo...

Yeah, to say that a God created man in his own image is a bit of a stretch. To ascribe the qualities of man to God is even more of a stretch. Nonethel...

You're right. I might have been 13. But seriously, I'm not here to debate religion. Religion is more about people controlling other people through rit...

Thanks guys, a lot to think on. For the time being though: Motion is relative, which is a good thing, because on both arrows I placed a tracker that i...