Humans have been humans for a period of time that's 0.2% of the dinosaur age. Look how much we've achieved but among all that one particular ability s...
Oh! I see. Is the following correct then? For F = ma (Newton's force formula) A) If m = 2 and a = 3, F = 2 × 3 = 6 B) If m = 2.1 and a = 3.1, F = 2.1 ...
:lol: Hi there 180 Proof. I just thought I might as well take the linguistic turn Wittgenstein initiated a long time ago to its logical conclusion - p...
Münchhausen Trilemma/Agrippan Trilemma I suppose I can lend my support to the OP, as best as I can that is. 1. Not everything is a cause. I once tried...
:lol: Good one! :up: What do you mean by "nature itself is imprecise" vis-à-vis QM? There's wiggle room at the bottom but not so much up here at human...
Hi Bitter Crank. Good to know you're alive & well. I'm, as mathematicians say, merely extrapolating the results. I don't know how familiar you are wit...
Now, I understand why the Buddha is, in a sense, above the gods or even God himself because the Buddha is empty or is one with sunyata i.e. the Buddha...
The predator-prey relationship is more complex than it seems when viewed under the moral lens. I think Nietzsche had similar thoughts as me in this re...
Evolutionarily speaking, draft and reared-for-meat animals are to be considered successful - they outnumber any wild animal, solitary or social, by a ...
:up: Keep it coming, keep it coming! I just want to bounce something off of you. Have you ever noticed how justice and evil seem indistinguishable? Th...
@"schopenhauer1" From what I know, we have a "better", comparatively exquisite in detail, description of hell in religion than heaven. Take any religi...
All I can remember about the so-called 1% is that they cause more environmental damage than the rest of us bottom-feeders. However, I don't know how e...
I like Parmenides, especially because he was the first Greek philosopher - as per Wikipedia - to have made nothing a subject of study. Since ex nihilo...
Grotta del Cane & Nirvana. Expect the CO_2 situation to worsen in the coming century. Avalokiteshvara, the thousand-armed one, did make a promise. htt...
Why not? A cat is a domesticated small species of feline. These are the essences of a cat. By the way naming is an act of referring. That said, there ...
The Plant Paradox Of Climate Change The reason why we're in this mess (climate change) is because we've neglected the plant kingdom (deforestation). O...
@"Banno"@"tim wood" :lol: Now, I see why :point: It's as if pain makes it real. See below the definition of have to pinch yourself Used for saying tha...
So nature has no bearing on our freedom? I believe Schopenhauer said something to the effect that we had no choice on the matter of what type/kind of ...
I thought once you lose an essence, you stop being that which the essence is a feature of. So, once you're not a wolf, and you aren't domesticated, yo...
How am I not a Pyrrhonist or a skeptic when I doubt the existence of the evident? Perhaps I'm taking the notion of skepticism too far, so far that it ...
God & Free will Paradox One of the main reasons why we doubt our free will is our nature - our preferences not something we chose. God is seen as havi...
Update 1. Having a headache: An experience, private but with public physical correlates (frowning, rubbing the temple region, etc.) 2. I have a headac...
I concur! :up: Well put! :up: :up: Excelente! Count me in, Pyrrho! Whoa! Hang on! Of the non-evident, I believe we're on the same page - Pyrrhonists w...
The standard albeit controversial definition of knowledge requires belief i.e. there has to be an intelligent being (read observer). Ergo, reality def...
Frankenstein was, in some sense, a natalist - he was, at the end of the day, father to the "wretch" and it (the "wretch") was the culmination of his l...
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