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...
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 ...
Great observation. I wasn't clear enough so my fault. Efficiency here represents all principles active in the process of evolution. I'm unfortunately ...
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...
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...
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 ...
Mysticism? Everyone is really under the impression that what they think, speak and do is volitional - choices made without any coercion and/or unconsc...
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...
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...
Maslow's hierarchy of needs comes to mind. Suffering, the real gut-wrenching kind, inhabits the world of basic necessities. Granted the definition of ...
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 ...
What then is the correct explanation? Probability, in my understanding, is the presence of multiple outcomes, each with its own weightage in terms of ...
Thank you very much for the colorful explanation. Appreciate it. However I am actually talking about there being an injection correspondence between e...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Well, understanding seems to be inversely proportional to complexity. After all, per my definition of simplicity and complexity, there are fewer inter...
So subjective experiences are simply beyond objective understanding. Something like non-overlapping magesteria that Stephen Jay Gould proposed to keep...
Aah! Thanks for the explanation. I wonder if that's entirely true. Scientific objectivity doesn't mean you ignore essential and defining aspects, here...
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...
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...
: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...
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...
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...
: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...
The required info would be instances where the disagreement arises, thus revealing that different rules are/were in play. I think vagueness requires a...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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