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In the spirit of pragmatism and wisdom it behooves us to tackle any problem, yours/this included, in the best way possible. For that we must give some...
November 19, 2019 at 14:40
Fantastic point but I don't think this is a complete and accurate description of the human condition. It all depends on what you think is the hole in ...
November 19, 2019 at 14:26
Great observation. I wasn't clear enough so my fault. Efficiency here represents all principles active in the process of evolution. I'm unfortunately ...
November 19, 2019 at 12:51
You make a fantastic point here. I see this, let's call it rebellion - the ability to choose the "wrong" path - as something of a necessary evil. I th...
November 19, 2019 at 12:43
Look at it this way then. Yes, suffering scales with your situation on the hierarchy of needs. You called it, quite aptly I must say, "refined sufferi...
November 18, 2019 at 15:36
The rich exploit the poor to rip off the middle class. I think it doesn't look so bad when we look at the system in its entirety. Good systems ensure ...
November 18, 2019 at 15:22
Mysticism? Everyone is really under the impression that what they think, speak and do is volitional - choices made without any coercion and/or unconsc...
November 18, 2019 at 14:38
The underlined word "material" is the cornerstone of the refutation. All motion till date have been material in cause and effect. Why introduce such a...
November 18, 2019 at 14:30
Look at the accepted history of humanity. Started off as hunter-gatherers who could manage a few grunts in form of communication, finally settled down...
November 18, 2019 at 14:06
Maslow's hierarchy of needs comes to mind. Suffering, the real gut-wrenching kind, inhabits the world of basic necessities. Granted the definition of ...
November 18, 2019 at 13:03
I'm afraid the realist is closer to the pessimist than the optimist. It seems that the world has enough variety to admit a wide range of philosophies ...
November 18, 2019 at 12:46
What then is the correct explanation? Probability, in my understanding, is the presence of multiple outcomes, each with its own weightage in terms of ...
November 18, 2019 at 09:59
Thank you very much for the colorful explanation. Appreciate it. However I am actually talking about there being an injection correspondence between e...
November 18, 2019 at 09:46
So there was nothing wrong when Socrates defined humans as featherless bipeds and someone came along with a chicken plucked of all its feathers and de...
November 18, 2019 at 09:43
I find this world enough of a pain. What horrors lie in wait for us in the "spiritual" dimension? Jokes aside I think there is a spiritual dimension a...
November 18, 2019 at 09:29
:rofl: At least I got mentioned. Good day folks
November 18, 2019 at 07:01
Great advice. Thanks. It assumes the principle of indifference in this case - that all dice outcomes have an equal probability of 1/6. This assumption...
November 18, 2019 at 06:12
If a definition leads to a contradiction?
November 16, 2019 at 04:44
I'm not denying consequences. If there's anything worth denying it's the claim that consequences play no part in influencing our decisions. Consequenc...
November 16, 2019 at 04:43
That's where the problem is isn't it? The definition is inadequate for the reason that, on one hand, Cantor's "preferred" bijection leads to an equiva...
November 16, 2019 at 04:34
I understand Cantor's argument well enough to see that there's a pair (1-to-1 correspondence) between the natural numbers and even numbers. Natural nu...
November 16, 2019 at 03:15
I apologize for lumping you all in a group but all of you deny that there is a problem here. Maybe as Sophisticat said I've misunderstood but I hope t...
November 16, 2019 at 02:44
Well you said The word "definite" is usually associated with certainty which is the antithesis of probability. I thought you had an interesting take o...
November 13, 2019 at 09:14
I didn't give it much thought and it probably shows. Anyway... Imagine two 6-sided dice A and B Imagine A is rolled in our world by a person like you ...
November 13, 2019 at 08:56
What is the difference between probability and certainty in your view?
November 13, 2019 at 08:49
I agree that subjective experiences are unique and no two are alike. What I'm suggesting though is that subjective experiences are constructed out of ...
November 13, 2019 at 02:59
Is there any other answer? Look, I'm willing to accept that there is an issue of scale when it comes to laws of nature. For instance the quantum world...
November 13, 2019 at 02:44
Physics/mechanics???!!! We've put men on the moon. Surely a humble dice is within its reach.
November 12, 2019 at 15:41
I think you're on the right track though I think you may not like the destination. :up: :clap:
November 12, 2019 at 14:46
As I said we require, as a necessity, happiness to make life worth living. If one is reasonably certain that happiness in some form can be provided to...
November 12, 2019 at 14:32
I have a very macabre interpretation of life. I wasn't born during that time but if human vanity isn't a myth I'm sure there was much fanfare and cele...
November 12, 2019 at 13:31
If you don't mind I'd like to request a clarification. What exactly does one mean by subjective experience. I read Nagel's paper and he doesn't define...
November 12, 2019 at 10:57
Well, understanding seems to be inversely proportional to complexity. After all, per my definition of simplicity and complexity, there are fewer inter...
November 12, 2019 at 10:31
So subjective experiences are simply beyond objective understanding. Something like non-overlapping magesteria that Stephen Jay Gould proposed to keep...
November 11, 2019 at 08:48
Aah! Thanks for the explanation. I wonder if that's entirely true. Scientific objectivity doesn't mean you ignore essential and defining aspects, here...
November 10, 2019 at 17:04
The problem according to the esteemed Nagel is that subjective experiences (what it is to be a conscious being) are unique - "single point of view" in...
November 10, 2019 at 14:05
This makes sense only if you ignore the difference between probability and certainty. Any conclusion with a probability less than a 100% is from an in...
November 10, 2019 at 13:38
:joke: :grin: Well the claim seems to be that it's impossible to know whether people engaged in discourse are talking about the same thing. I agree th...
November 10, 2019 at 12:05
Great question. That we can create a mountain and a hadron collider but not a cell or a human is clear evidence in which category these four items fal...
November 10, 2019 at 03:47
I guess Liebniz's law of identity would apply here viz. that indistinguishability implies identity. In fact Wittgenstein's paradox admits that it's th...
November 10, 2019 at 03:31
:ok: What about family resemblance? Does it not afford an opportunity for export/import of words from one language game to another to allow meaningful...
November 09, 2019 at 17:01
The required info would be instances where the disagreement arises, thus revealing that different rules are/were in play. I think vagueness requires a...
November 09, 2019 at 16:53
I guess the example given is insufficient to capture the essence of Wittgenstein's paradox because both the off-side example and the plus-quus example...
November 09, 2019 at 10:39
:ok:
November 09, 2019 at 10:30
Agreed. Some permutations may be dead ends e.g. inert elements like Xenon etc. Agreed. There must be a guiding principle to interactions e.g. celestia...
November 09, 2019 at 08:26
That was my suspicion all along. :up: However if we're to put g/G in the context of a language game I believe it makes any and all claims about g/G im...
November 09, 2019 at 07:21
This is probably totally unrelated to the great Nietzsche but in my opinion bad things must happen to good people in a tragedy. If not it's just comeu...
November 08, 2019 at 13:22
If you insist the proposition "simplicity evolves into complexity" can't be proven then let me give it a shot. You be the judge. Essential features of...
November 08, 2019 at 13:05
I thought "I don't know" was/is a perfectly acceptable answer to questions of any kind. Have you never used the words "I don't know"? If "no" then you...
November 08, 2019 at 12:44
Am I then to conclude that the belief simplicity leads to complexity is baseless and ergo, logically, to be open to discussion? If yes could you write...
November 08, 2019 at 08:03