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As for this project of bringing to life an extinct species, even if only a hybrid, it's a technology demonstration/proof of concept, giving us a taste...
September 14, 2021 at 04:58
It was you who said it. Search your feelings Luke Wayfarer.
September 14, 2021 at 04:46
Church?!! Oh, the irony!
September 14, 2021 at 04:44
Well, all I can say is we are great, in some relative sense and also in being, as Yuval Noah Harari says in his book Sapiens, the planet's most prolif...
September 14, 2021 at 04:41
How do you know ghosts and the like are fictional? What if you added a sense organ to the existing five and with that detected the presence of what pe...
September 14, 2021 at 04:30
First off, I don't treat criticism of science as adversarial i.e. pointing out the flaws of science is meant to be constructive rather than the destru...
September 14, 2021 at 04:25
Why are you dismissing the paranormal world, calling people who report encounters with it as "...suggestible people..."? My take on it is that, as I s...
September 14, 2021 at 04:14
Right! However, don't you think that just like having infrared receptors in your eyes can help us see in the dark, acquiring a novel receptor could op...
September 14, 2021 at 03:44
Another good point. Reminds me of the following example conversation that appears in the definition of the expression, "speak for yourself": X: The mo...
September 14, 2021 at 03:39
I was thinking of how, no matter what the sense organ is, old/novel, the perception from it ultimately ends up in the brain and therein lies the rub -...
September 14, 2021 at 03:16
A bodhisattva who leaves (samsara) is not a bodhisattva. I fail to see the relevance.
September 14, 2021 at 02:51
:up: Interesting!
September 14, 2021 at 02:45
Aye! There's this misconception that knowledge is passed down from parents to children, ancestors to descendants in a perfect manner - completely and ...
September 14, 2021 at 02:44
Fair point but I was trying to point out that if you comply, your free will is meaningless, it doesn't matter whether you have it or not.
September 14, 2021 at 02:28
One word, bodhisattva. I'm told their primary goal is the liberation of all sentient beings. As for "no child left behind" policy, never heard of it t...
September 13, 2021 at 16:56
Not in the format I gave, no.
September 13, 2021 at 16:50
Watch and be amazed! Niel deGrasse Tyson's take on animal and human intelligence. https://youtu.be/y3z-Nr4q19M
September 13, 2021 at 16:49
Thanks. I learned something today although I vaguely recall reading it somewhere. :up: In my defense, the northward migration of plant species only ev...
September 13, 2021 at 15:22
Yep, intelligence can be hard to define. I sometimes wonder if there are species, aliens perhaps, who deliberately/intentionally/purposefully gave up ...
September 13, 2021 at 15:16
You just described "lagom" in English! Plus :point: lagom (Wiktonary). Fit the bill? Just what the doctor ordered? Perfect?
September 13, 2021 at 14:06
I'm not sure how to parse your comment but I know some plant hobbyists, not exactly real gardeners, but I don't recall them complaining about the seas...
September 13, 2021 at 14:03
Name some and do they make predictions, have these been verified?
September 13, 2021 at 12:47
Agreed!
September 13, 2021 at 12:14
You never know what people are up to these days, just like it was in the past and will be in the future.
September 13, 2021 at 12:13
Straw man. I never mentioned the level of precision although it will matter to the quality of the prediction climatologists make and thus will also de...
September 13, 2021 at 12:12
In a way legitimizing drugs.
September 13, 2021 at 11:14
I would hope not. Their mistakes can have far-reaching effects, no? Induce mass panic for instance.
September 13, 2021 at 11:13
I rest my case.
September 13, 2021 at 11:04
Not funny but a good attempt. There's a thread :point: Is Climatology Science? and the condition that I stipulated - the predicted rise in temperature...
September 13, 2021 at 11:03
September 13, 2021 at 10:28
Not much of an explanation.
September 13, 2021 at 10:27
Yes, the person who utters the words, "I don't exist" is lying but the reason why you came to that conclusion is because it's self-refuting or self-co...
September 13, 2021 at 10:27
Equivocation! Interesting, explain please.
September 13, 2021 at 10:13
I'll only believe in man-induced climate change if the observed global warming (rising temperatures) perfectly matches that predicted based on human-a...
September 13, 2021 at 10:12
:lol: Where's the evidence for climate change? :chin:
September 13, 2021 at 09:59
It's self-refuting, it amounts to saying: I exist AND I don't exist, a classic contradiction!
September 13, 2021 at 09:58
I'm not a climate change denier myself but it doesn't seem to enjoy the same level of certainty like, say, the existence of the sun. Nobody denies the...
September 13, 2021 at 09:56
I have my doubts. Firstly, is it real? Secondly, have we found its cause, are humans to blame? That said, my point is, let's give the naysayers their ...
September 13, 2021 at 09:23
CO2 scrubbers Artificial photosynthesis https://youtu.be/wY3oW80muEQ Let's say climate activists haven't been able to make the case for global warming...
September 13, 2021 at 09:13
You maybe onto something. Did Aldous Huxley take a page out of Indo-Aryan culture. What if, what Huxley predicts already happened, a failed social exp...
September 13, 2021 at 08:34
:smile:
September 13, 2021 at 08:30
Sounds like a plan! :up:
September 13, 2021 at 08:16
Doomsayer!
September 13, 2021 at 08:15
This is the paradox of psychology. It takes a human brain to realize that the human brain is an animal brain after all - trainable just like animals. ...
September 13, 2021 at 08:13
There will be byproducts, some beneficial, others harmful beyond imagination. It's impossible to predict what the future holds. What now?
September 13, 2021 at 07:50
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September 13, 2021 at 07:18
I'm not sure but desensitization/habituation understood in terms of causal ineffectiveness seems relevant. I mean, we're, as per biologists, products ...
September 13, 2021 at 07:09
:up: Not transcending it; rather steering it.
September 13, 2021 at 05:39
I was talking about dreaming & daydreaming.
September 13, 2021 at 04:52
See Paradox Of Self-reference.
September 13, 2021 at 04:50