TheMadFool

:ok: :ok: A pencil doesn't have atoms? Space doesn't have atoms. So, god isn't made of atoms or is he? If you're going to compare god to space then, i...

I understand chaos as the behavior of a system extremely sensitive to tiny differences in initial states. My problem with this is whether chaos theory...

Entropy. Life isn't fair. I wonder though if the concept of entropy is a concept transferrable on to the human condition.

All I can say as of this moment is that it's more than just a hunch. If the fine structure of the brain - the exact number, location, synaptic connect...

There are two things to consider here: 1. The brains of conjoined twins are identical in gross structure in the sense both have cerebrums, cerebellums...

If the brain's fine structure determines brain function, we should observe a proportionate variability in the way brains operate. This isn't true.

How do you know this? To both of you Granted that there'll be differences, very tiny differences in my humble opinion, between the experiences of each...

Sorry, I don't follow. I've been trying to wrap my head around the idea of existence for as long as I can remember with nothing to show for it. That y...

To begin with, we shouldn't judge the contestants before the contest is over. Humans are only beginning to understand the complexity of nature and erg...

Fact imitating fiction? Possible, very possible.

It's either leave everything to the vagaries of fortune or have an intelligent organism, who knows the ins and outs of life and living, to manage life...

Offer me a third option then.

You've made some very intriguing statements, especially about space. I believe the modern scientific understanding of space is not that it's nothing -...

Thereabouts, yes.

I look at it differently. If intentionality could be ascribed to nature, it's pinned all its hopes on humans. Humans are endowed with an intelligence ...

To those interested As @"Coben" pointed out for our benefit God, if he exists, didn't employ only the trial and error method in the creation of the un...

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I suppose it all depends on the actual dynamic between life and its environment. If the environment can change suddenly without warning then it makes ...

I have plenty of books but the vast majority of them are soft copies. I read them in fits and starts and on most occasions I lose the plot mostly due ...

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How about treating the covid pandemic as a transformative force for culture instead of a destructive one - out goes the Western handshake and in comes...

:grin: Sorry, bad at punctuation and worse at grammar. Thanks for your comment though.

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If truth you're after Doubt you must beat Descarte the rafter Cogito the only truth we'll ever meet In the ocean of ignorance thereafter rest awhile, ...

There are two parts to this: 1. Human-level understanding, something I've tried to do in my OP 2. God-level understanding, which is, in likelihood, as...

Read above :ok: I wonder though, if nothing is simple, why do people have difficulty discussing it? :ok: :ok: :ok: Your issue is with what can be broa...

Maybe there's nothing there to follow.

There's only so much you can do with philosophy as a hobby. Doing philosophy full-time means you've decided to dedicate your life to it. Methinks ther...

I have a feeling you're conflating trial and error with brute search. Trial and error is when you randomly try out different possibilities. Brute sear...

It appears that what we have to keep a close watch on the law of noncontradiction. It's the cornerstone of logic. If contradictions are allowed then i...

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I was simply exploring the persistence of lies and lying despite the fact that they're valued negatively. It appears, from my drive-by of the issue, t...

It's opposite day today! :smile:

Here's something you might just find interesting. There are basically three kinds arguments one can make: 1. Deductive: the conclusion is necessarily ...

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Excellent point! Nevertheless, word limits do impose a serious constraint on poets.

I put in a condition you're ignoring. In what sense do you mean "can be coped with or eliminated"? It is next to impossible to "cope" with suffering b...

Thank you. It seems time is too precious to waste on reading/listening verbosity. My friends would've loved Paul Dirac (1902 - 1984). He hated poetry ...

:ok: To be happy I must stop desire To be happy but is itself a desire Surely then it's impossible to stop desire For to not desire is again itself a ...

One must consider all possibilities. Surely, you must've fallen for more than one woman/man as the case may be and decided to court one and not the ot...

:up: What if you were offered a choice between Eastern thought and Western thought but not both? Why do they need a god? As a guarantor of paradise, n...

Me too but I'm not sure whether I'm meditating when I light one up. I'll take a look. Thanks. This makes sense only if it's true that the suffering pe...

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This is probably a weird way to look at the issue but it seems to make sense at some level. The goal, as per evolution, is to survive and two critical...

It's not desire per se that's bad. It's just that it indicates you've not come to terms with a fundamental truth about reality - impermanence. I remem...

I think stoicism is missing something viz. doctrine of impermanence and thus, in a way, fails at the get go. The legendary stoic calm doesn't arise fr...

I remember very vaguely touching upon this issue a while back. I seem to have forgotten what I thought of it. I think the whole notion of suffering an...