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You might need to go into mortality statistics (does Thanatos show any, how can I describe it?, preferences?). Then you might need to reexamine the da...
December 04, 2021 at 12:30
I dunno! I hope something that makes sense.
December 04, 2021 at 12:21
:ok:
December 04, 2021 at 12:10
Animals are innocent - they don't intend to harm (injure/kill) for the sake of harm. They only participate in actions that are immoral out of necessit...
December 04, 2021 at 12:10
:lol: :up:
December 04, 2021 at 12:08
Kinda like a virus...not quite but still one can't help but notice the similarities.
December 04, 2021 at 12:07
My answer may not be what you should hear.
December 04, 2021 at 12:05
Well, as one poster remarked a long time ago, if space expands, entropy will/shouldn't max out. As long as entropy has no upper bound that it can reac...
December 04, 2021 at 11:29
Reread my post.
December 04, 2021 at 11:25
@"T Clark" Metaphysics as Utilitarian I suppose I see your point. Metaphysics is about first principles which, from a scientific standpoint, are theor...
December 04, 2021 at 07:24
Don't go patting yourself on the back for that. Everybody seems to know what I'm going to say. :grin: I should just keep my mouth shut!
December 04, 2021 at 07:09
Yes, you're on the right track.
December 04, 2021 at 06:35
I dunno. Aristotle's love of art is, for me, the smoking gun in re the possibility that he was himself a mad artist. Plato had warned us against the a...
December 04, 2021 at 06:34
Madmen are, as far as I know, unpredictable. Expect the unexpected is the rule.
December 04, 2021 at 06:19
Sorry for butting in but theia mania.
December 04, 2021 at 05:37
@"Gnomon" :monkey: :point: Me
December 04, 2021 at 05:32
I'll be waitin'.
December 04, 2021 at 05:30
How do we know Aristotle wasn't suffering from episodic psychosis and that metaphysics was what happened in one of his fits of madness. Are we attempt...
December 04, 2021 at 05:27
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December 04, 2021 at 05:01
Go with the flow is what that means to me. Very Daoist!
December 03, 2021 at 19:25
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December 03, 2021 at 19:21
Consistency is about truth. If you don't care about the truth, and you don't need to, consistency be damned! That's in classical logic though. If you'...
December 03, 2021 at 18:01
I'm consistently inconsistent! :grin:
December 03, 2021 at 17:25
In: Why am I?  — view comment
Why are you what? :gasp: Why am Monkee? We're all monkeys, great apes to be precise. You're not alone if that makes you feel any better.
December 03, 2021 at 17:18
Wanting to be consistent is a bit like playing Jenga. The tower eventually collapses, the objective is to, well, prolong the agony (torture?) :grin:
December 03, 2021 at 17:02
Enlightenment is a tangent on a circle! One might wanna look at it as a slingshot maneuver! Anytime anyone digresses (goes off on a tangent), that per...
December 03, 2021 at 14:41
While we may live differently - some in luxury, others in abject poverty; some beautiful, others ugly; some white, others black, some in-between, and ...
December 03, 2021 at 14:29
\Delta \space Law = Everything changes. If the \Delta \space Law is true, it itself should change. If the \Delta \space Law changes, C \space Law = So...
December 03, 2021 at 14:13
A perpetual motion machine is also possible if the energy required to do the same thing drops (inertia?) Suppose machine P recharges itself with 70% e...
December 03, 2021 at 12:55
That - sadness - is the key to nirvana. Feel sad, and I mean true heartache and we set the stage for enlightenment. Maybe nirvana is just sorrow in a ...
December 03, 2021 at 12:50
Hehe. This wouldn't have happened if...
December 03, 2021 at 12:43
:lol: So it would seem...so it would seem...
December 03, 2021 at 12:41
:grin:
December 03, 2021 at 12:32
Yes. Is it possible? 1 \rightarrow 2 \rightarrow 4 \rightarrow 8... We have the math ready, as it were, to find a physical phenomenon to latch on to. ...
December 03, 2021 at 12:11
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December 03, 2021 at 12:07
If 1 kg of matter can produce 2 "kg" of energy and 1 "kg" of energy can produce 1 kg of matter. 1. 1 \rightarrow 2. 2. 1 for recharge, the other 1 for...
December 03, 2021 at 11:55
Indeed but the chances are that we're daydreaming. I'm just intrigued by the mathematical model for population growth - allegedly exponential.
December 03, 2021 at 11:49
I can't tell the difference between mass delusions/hallucinations and objectivity.
December 03, 2021 at 09:07
The problem with perpetual motion machines (I suppose the holy grail of mechanical engineers): Say machine P, 1. P must produce energy, say 100%. 2. 1...
December 03, 2021 at 08:39
Change 1. Replacement change: From the little that I know of computer graphics, if you see a red triangle on screen and then it changes color to blue,...
December 03, 2021 at 06:56
The Prevention is Better than Cure Paradox The Covid-19 pandemic is in full swing. The most effective strategy is not to cure it (given the givens) bu...
December 03, 2021 at 06:34
I like the images you post. I wish we could do this for all of philosophy. Pictures have a certain quality to them that allows them to get a point acr...
December 03, 2021 at 05:58
The internet was designed by its creators for sharing information (communication) in the fastest way possible with current technology. Does easier com...
December 03, 2021 at 05:53
Wait till the government gets wind of the power of music. I haven't the slightest idea what happened between Islam and music. Islamic geometric patter...
December 03, 2021 at 05:04
1. Ship of Theseus 2. Wittgenstein's rope analogy. Identity is a sequence of overlapping stages and that's why we feel that there's some kind of conne...
December 03, 2021 at 05:03
:up: On target.
December 02, 2021 at 16:11
It's my suspicion that the apparent lack of a definitive referent for the "I" is more about hope mixed with fantasy than anything truly substantive in...
December 02, 2021 at 16:09
So, net zero growth is not gonna be as problematic as some of us would think. After all if a growth rate of 1/100th of a percent can be maintained ove...
December 02, 2021 at 10:30
To think, there's got to be a thinker. That's why Descartes' argument works. This is, as you said, an entailment. I would treat the thinker as a neces...
December 02, 2021 at 09:37
Didn't you say that it was a presupposition? Perhaps it's both but then that doesn't help, does it?
December 02, 2021 at 08:40