TheMadFool

Never and even if I were to get cut and bruised in my dreams they wouldn't carry over into my waking life. There's a difference between these two worl...

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If "one would be denying life every second they're not having sex" then that implies, if you don't want to deny life then, you should have sex round t...

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This is basic probability. Probability of pulling out the unreal marble = 1/3

It's different, right? Falling in a dream leaves no cuts and bruises.

Well, either the entire community of mathematicians and scientists is correct or I'm correct. It seems I have a snowball's chance in hell. Could you g...

It's basic probability that I'm doing and doesn't involve Bayes' theorem if that's what you're referring to by "Bayesian calculation".

If that's false then dreams must be real.

:chin: How?

You need to work on it a bit more.

You have to prove that some things don't change, are endpoints, and can't be just another stage in the process of flow. Your volume example is a physi...

I'll change your "P" to R for convenience and use the notation P(R) = probability of R 1. Not knowing whether P. There are two possibilities in the sa...

I'm still trying to figure out the birthplace of the "false impression" that we have free will, let's call it B for convenience. B appears to be intim...

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That's the same thing. If refuted then disconfirmed. If confirmed then not refuted. There are two options: an observation is real or not real. Ergo, t...

Well, I know it's likely to be red. Probability that it's a red marble = 98/100. Consider now the situation that there are 50 red and 50 blue marbles ...

Is there something you don't know? Say there is and let's call it proposition S. What value of probability will you assign to the truth value of S? Le...

Please go to my thread :point: The More The Merrier Paradox

Cynic: I found out that nobody cares and if someone cares s/he only cares about herself/himself. Wary. Nihilist: I searched for good reasons to care a...

I don't have a clue why homosexuals exist except as a possible, ergo prepared in all its gastronomic splendor, dish in the evolutionary cookbook. What...

First things first. Consider that I'm observing something, say X. I don't know if X is real or not. What probability value should I assign to X being ...

Ok. I went back over your first post. You seem to be saying that personhood is irrelevant to the abortion issue because a person is a time-dependent e...

In my humble opinion, cynicism has its roots in human nature, depraved as it is most of the time and that's what counts, plus the depressing indiffere...

:rofl: Maybe there's something to it, you know.

Jesus may have been divine. I don't know but give some thought to the words he spoke. They're about a fact that most of us, given the off chance that ...

I was just working on a hunch. I felt, like everybody does it seems, that language reflects, is a window to, our innermost thoughts, our beliefs, stan...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAScJvxCy2Y Watch this video of professor Sean M. Carroll. His line of thinking matches yours. You can return to where...

I'm saying that something that can be perceived by some and not by others is of doubtful reality.

This is the point of contention between us. I don't think we're time-dependent because time isn't real. Light travels at the, well, speed of light. Fo...

Of course your child is real. Where does time figure in all of this though?

First, time isn't real - as you said it's value reduces to zero at light or a faster speed which essentially means time no longer exists. Ergo, I don'...

Perhaps that's the end result, the culmination as it were, of deep thought, countless hours of intense focused ruminations, years of intense study.

Suppose, only for the sake of argument though :wink: , that I'm a person and also consider that I'm travelling at the speed of light. Time would come ...

Right! Doesn't that imply that time isn't real? I mean what's the difference between time stopping and time not being their. After all, time stopping ...

Sorry, missed that on the first pass of your post. :up:

But Jesus stooped down, and with his finger wrote on the ground, as though he heard them not. So when they continued asking him, he lifted up himself,...

Fashionable Nonsense OR I'm an idiot.

Energy is work waiting to be done. I believe both are measured in Joules or Ergs.

What does that mean? That we're under the impression that we're free but that we're actually not? I agree that legal institutions work under the assum...

Well, you seem to have a theory. Good luck with that, seriously.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_vulture_and_the_little_girl#/media/File%3AKevin-Carter-Child-Vulture-Sudan.jpg https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lau...

I get your point. But if pro-lifers should be having sex 24/7 as you seem to be implying, pro-choicers should be trying to enforce a moratorium on sex...

I like the positive tone set out in the OP's title "how to gain knowledge and pleasure...?"

Reminds me of Kung Fu Panda - Monkey, Snake, Mantis, Tiger, etc. styles.

Those who would do such a thing (kill a child who grows up to be one of the most reviled people in history) are functioning under an unfounded assumpt...

All I know is this: different perspectives yield different statements but given any single perspective, the statements within it shouldn't be contradi...

I don't think time and the physical are so deeply connected that the latter can't exist without the former. As an example of existence being independe...

That's a different line of inquiry but, as I said, if everything flows each point in the flow is both a destination (enpoint) AND a transit point (tra...

Well, the fact of the matter is this: Given a group of people (X, Y, and, Z) making observations we've to assign a probability value for one person's ...