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:up: So an electron is just there? That sounds even less plausible than it orbitting?
July 31, 2020 at 08:12
Not just ourselves but others also. That's my point.
July 31, 2020 at 08:10
I don't know how this bears on the issue you raise here but there's a very basic problem with morality seen as a system of oughts and it is such a sys...
July 31, 2020 at 07:40
Both, at least to me. I maybe wrong though.
July 31, 2020 at 05:25
But we can construct a planetary model of an electron orbiting a positively charged center, no?
July 31, 2020 at 05:25
This doesn't sound right once you take an essential component of morality, empathy, into account. Empathy is the ability to sense other people's wellb...
July 31, 2020 at 05:23
Perhaps I'm being naively optimistic, even dumb beyond redemption but a Buddhist perspective seems to be in order. It shouldn't sadden us that we're u...
July 30, 2020 at 17:21
I don't think morality, Christianity as part of it, and stoicism make good bedfellows. The former is about oughts, changing the world into something o...
July 30, 2020 at 17:15
I thought the class of dictators and the class of the ethical don't have an overlap zone i.e. the concept of an ethical dictator has an empty extensio...
July 30, 2020 at 16:38
:chin:
July 30, 2020 at 14:19
In: Suicide  — view comment
An interesting take on the issue of suicide - relating the intent to end one's own life to one's perceived (and actual) utility. Reminds me of my coll...
July 30, 2020 at 08:39
It seems that to do work, we need to subtract from the total amount of energy in a system and if that system depends on the total amount of energy in ...
July 30, 2020 at 08:24
This is the curved-space explanation I was referring to - has to do with non-Euclidean geometry. So the force observed from another frame of reference...
July 30, 2020 at 08:21
Regarding perpetual motion machines, my understanding is that the biggest obstacle in constructing such machines is friction - the engineer's arch adv...
July 30, 2020 at 06:20
Thanks. It appears that there actually is no force being applied to the Earth - it's just travelling at a constant speed through space curved by the S...
July 30, 2020 at 06:16
I suppose you're right. Let's be realistic about the whole god thing. Assuming your position that it is, in fact, the creator we're ultimately seeking...
July 29, 2020 at 16:58
:up:
July 29, 2020 at 16:20
I thought science ignores the creator and channels its attention to the creation.
July 29, 2020 at 13:40
Nociception Pain appears to be intrinsically a good thing. If a threat is undetectable, then we become vulnerable to that threat - think stealth techn...
July 29, 2020 at 13:30
How is the question of God's existence important? What will change once we know whether there's a God or not? Take a close look at God's role in our l...
July 29, 2020 at 12:18
How? What's this "morality of all" and "morality on Earth" you refer to? As far as I'm concerned, the one thing that's intriguing and, perhaps importa...
July 29, 2020 at 05:54
Knowing that would end the debate wouldn't it? If you ask me, aligning myself with the OP's line of inquiry, one could ask the question: does a though...
July 29, 2020 at 04:36
:smile: Stay safe. I hope you aren't anywhere near a coronavirus hot zone. Coming back to the question of mind and whether or not it occupies space, I...
July 29, 2020 at 03:38
Well, what you say is correct - morality is, at its core, about harmony - but I see harmony of two kinds if that's even the right way to look at it. F...
July 28, 2020 at 12:45
I'm reminded of a common leitmotif in folk tales - there's this mysterious castle and the main protagonist in the story is welcomed in by the owner, a...
July 28, 2020 at 08:30
Yeah, I know. The problem is we had to make an adjustment to a simple theory of a normal sequence of events and change it into something involving a m...
July 28, 2020 at 07:50
:up: :clap:
July 28, 2020 at 04:15
In: Aliens!  — view comment
Please don't take offense to what I'm going to say. I remember very vaguely being told a story of three donkeys and it so transpired that they had to ...
July 28, 2020 at 03:49
:chin:
July 28, 2020 at 03:40
Speaking from the standopint of the principle of uniformity of nature - the foundation of laws/rules that restrict, confine, limit, coerce, shackle, c...
July 28, 2020 at 01:27
If you ask me, the end goal is an utopia or heaven if you're the religious type. I haven't done research into it but I have a feeling carnivory is dec...
July 28, 2020 at 01:24
I hesitate to second the motion despite knowing that, sometimes but not always, participating as a subject in an experiment would be way better than i...
July 27, 2020 at 16:23
I'm surprised. Optimism is yet to be vanquished.
July 27, 2020 at 16:11
You should not unless you''re a bot. To disagree is to be free. :chin:
July 27, 2020 at 16:08
I don't think time is real in the sense it exists outside of our minds. Assume time has a beginning, call it point X. We can always ask for any point ...
July 27, 2020 at 15:35
How about if we look at this from the point of view of induction. First, according to the inductive principle of the uniformity of nature, people shou...
July 27, 2020 at 14:44
I think realism means something specific in philosophy, something that isn't related to pessimism/optimism. I don't know about pragmatism. I feel like...
July 27, 2020 at 14:10
Well, for starters and also as the main course, you must've surely noticed that mother nature herself is the greatest doctor, engineer, mathematician,...
July 27, 2020 at 09:35
The word "chair" can't mean chair leg, or chair back because those are more primitive ostensive definitions. Definitions, in my humble opinion, build ...
July 27, 2020 at 09:24
Ok. There's a sense in which there's no end in sight to splitting particles - there always is a smaller particle to be cleaved off of a larger one - b...
July 27, 2020 at 09:09
Well, you guys are the adults here. You should be knowing.
July 27, 2020 at 08:59
The paradox becomes more complex when we consider your comments in the context of Camus' Sisyphus. Sisyphus is Sisyphus precisely because he's neither...
July 26, 2020 at 07:46
The esteemed Quine is correct but not as correct as he should be to make his point. Ostensive definitions occur in stages. If I point to a metal and p...
July 26, 2020 at 07:28
Photons? How do we decide whether two objects A and B occupy space? Well, they can't be placed in the same location at the same time - one must be rem...
July 26, 2020 at 06:55
There are two kinds of words in any language: 1. Syntactic e.g. "the", "a", etc. whose purpose is to give some form of structure to language 2. Non-sy...
July 26, 2020 at 06:40
The great magician Penn/Teller (I'm not sure) said something very precious in one of his countless interviews: the more you want to believe something,...
July 26, 2020 at 06:26
An impractical solution is to create different types of money with restricted domain of use. My money would be valueless to you and your money would h...
July 26, 2020 at 03:19
Whatever happened to being realistic? Prepare for the worst but hope for the best. :lol:
July 26, 2020 at 03:11
Well, it's an interesting line of inquiry because it uncouples the two essential qualities of matter - mass & volume. Is it possible for something to ...
July 26, 2020 at 02:17
There seems to be a very positive view of freedom, born perhaps from how much we had to struggle for it - oppression seems to have been the normal sta...
July 26, 2020 at 02:10