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In: If the brain can't think, what does?  — view comment
You can speak of it. But... The brain cant exist without a body to be in. The body cant exist without a physical world to live in. The three are inter...
August 30, 2021 at 04:37
In: If the brain can't think, what does?  — view comment
So doer and deed are synonyms?
August 30, 2021 at 04:31
In: If the brain can't think, what does?  — view comment
So the deed of shooting a footbal is me?
August 30, 2021 at 04:30
In: is it ethical to tell a white lie?  — view comment
My wife is fine with me... She LOVES me... If you know the meaning of that word. The corporate you are talking about "was" indifferent. They give me a...
August 30, 2021 at 04:28
In: Pattern Recognition as the Essence of Philosophy  — view comment
I feel a pattern emerging...
August 30, 2021 at 04:20
In: Pattern Recognition as the Essence of Philosophy  — view comment
Very imaginative!
August 30, 2021 at 04:17
In: is it ethical to tell a white lie?  — view comment
Which truth?
August 30, 2021 at 04:04
In: is it ethical to tell a white lie?  — view comment
Thats exactly what I do! Its causing the tears.
August 30, 2021 at 04:01
In: is it ethical to tell a white lie?  — view comment
Typical!
August 30, 2021 at 04:00
In: is it ethical to tell a white lie?  — view comment
The why did you start?
August 30, 2021 at 03:59
In: is it ethical to tell a white lie?  — view comment
No. Its unethical. But should this stop me?
August 30, 2021 at 03:58
In: is it ethical to tell a white lie?  — view comment
Wtf you know about commitment?
August 30, 2021 at 03:57
In: is it ethical to tell a white lie?  — view comment
Explain! You are the kind of person who never weeps. For sure. I know your kind!
August 30, 2021 at 03:51
In: is it ethical to tell a white lie?  — view comment
You must change axiom. Im proof its wrong. As far as I (and others) can tell, im a person!
August 30, 2021 at 03:47
In: is it ethical to tell a white lie?  — view comment
I will kill myself. Thanks for this cheering comment!
August 30, 2021 at 03:45
In: If the brain can't think, what does?  — view comment
Why not?
August 30, 2021 at 03:25
In: The Shoutbox  — view comment
This Corano, eeeh, Carono, eeeh, Conora, ...fuck!..., Canoro.......grrrrrr?!...Corona, right!, this Corona stuff is making me mad indeed! And self-rig...
August 30, 2021 at 03:21
In: The Shoutbox  — view comment
DAMNED! That youtube channel on TV is indeed intelligent. It plays "Under the milkyway" for us!
August 30, 2021 at 03:14
In: Deleted  — view comment
The sphere is not flat but 2d. You can know your triangle is in 3d space by counting the sum of the angles.
August 30, 2021 at 03:11
In: is it ethical to tell a white lie?  — view comment
My wife has the uncanny habit to wanno know everything of my whereabouts. I tend to forget taking my phone with me when I go to Amsterdam to visit my ...
August 30, 2021 at 03:09
In: Deleted  — view comment
No longer flat.
August 30, 2021 at 02:49
In: The Definition of Information  — view comment
Good one.
August 30, 2021 at 02:47
In: Why Was There A Big Bang  — view comment
All this stuff about symmetry breaking. From the moment I learned it had donuts, no, doubts about this. When already the Higgs mechanism is non-existe...
August 30, 2021 at 02:04
In: Why Was There A Big Bang  — view comment
Mathematical physics no. Physicists yes.
August 30, 2021 at 01:59
In: Why Was There A Big Bang  — view comment
Why not?
August 30, 2021 at 01:58
In: Why Was There A Big Bang  — view comment
Not true.
August 30, 2021 at 01:56
In: Why Was There A Big Bang  — view comment
I said, the prevailing view. Branes and pyrotechnics dont offer a good explanation to confine matter (except gravitons) on a brane.
August 30, 2021 at 01:52
In: Why Was There A Big Bang  — view comment
@Seppo is suddenly very quiet! Now why should that be?
August 30, 2021 at 01:49
In: Why Was There A Big Bang  — view comment
WTF is Koelmans? Sounds Dutch: The cool man.
August 30, 2021 at 01:48
In: Why Was There A Big Bang  — view comment
Then it needs a fix.
August 30, 2021 at 01:44
In: Why Was There A Big Bang  — view comment
Then who tha hell are you to criticise me? My "background", as you put it very imaginatively, is physics. And my foreground is philosophy. On top, it'...
August 30, 2021 at 01:43
In: The Shoutbox  — view comment
Ah! Thats a good way to get to know people indeed.
August 29, 2021 at 16:37
In: Why did logical positivism fade away?  — view comment
Very true. That's the definition. But what and how or why is the way things are?
August 29, 2021 at 16:32
In: What's the function of tears, even the crocodile ones?  — view comment
Appropiate emoticon! :cry:
August 29, 2021 at 16:28
In: Poll: Is the United States becoming more authoritarian?  — view comment
What's the film about?
August 29, 2021 at 16:25
In: Poll: Is the United States becoming more authoritarian?  — view comment
The native Americans see the invaders as Hitlerian. They were slaughtered and put in concentration camps. There hunting fields were taken from them. C...
August 29, 2021 at 16:20
In: Metaphysics Defined  — view comment
However you look at consciousness, be it materialistically or attributable to some metaphysical stuff, it doesn't resolve pain nor explain it. Though ...
August 29, 2021 at 16:17
In: If the brain can't think, what does?  — view comment
Good one! :lol: .
August 29, 2021 at 16:04
In: The Shoutbox  — view comment
Just vaxx or dont. Without further ado. Jesus, I followed that Corona thread with amazement. Looks like a Corona war is immanent. No vaxxin against th...
August 29, 2021 at 16:00
In: Poll: Is the United States becoming more authoritarian?  — view comment
Absolutely no. The constitution is as it ever was. Equal chances and opportunities for all. If Im not mistaken as an outsider Dutch guy. The US is an ...
August 29, 2021 at 15:56
In: Why Was There A Big Bang  — view comment
A miraculous wonder that can be addressed! ?
August 29, 2021 at 14:28
In: Why Was There A Big Bang  — view comment
Once upon a time, it was the Planck-era, spaceytime was wildly fluctuating. Virtual gravitons were causing uproar again. This happens periodically as ...
August 29, 2021 at 14:26
In: Why Was There A Big Bang  — view comment
That's not enough. There is needed a periodic inflow and outflow of heat.
August 29, 2021 at 14:09
In: Can we know in what realm Plato's mathematical objects exist?  — view comment
My wife says that I truly joined the bed with another one. It's true for her. (she actually rubs it into my face right now telling me to move from beh...
August 29, 2021 at 14:04
In: Can we know in what realm Plato's mathematical objects exist?  — view comment
:lol:
August 29, 2021 at 13:48
In: Why Was There A Big Bang  — view comment
This comes very close.
August 29, 2021 at 13:34
In: Why Was There A Big Bang  — view comment
The prevailing view (the dogma) is that space can't be embedded in a higher dimensiolal one. But thats questionable, although the dogma forbids asking...
August 29, 2021 at 13:33
In: Can we know in what realm Plato's mathematical objects exist?  — view comment
If it's already there in the mind (which I dont think, but the inner world could be the Platonic realm) we only have to look in there with the mind's ...
August 29, 2021 at 13:20
In: What's the function of tears, even the crocodile ones?  — view comment
Could that be the reason we cry at funerals? Or is it just smoke of the crematory exhaust pipes, blowing the remnants of granny in our eyes?
August 29, 2021 at 11:36
In: Can we know in what realm Plato's mathematical objects exist?  — view comment
:ok:
August 29, 2021 at 11:30
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