Nagarjuna's Tetralemma Either something is or it is not. 1. It is. No! 2. It is not. No! 3. It is and it is not. No! 4. Neither it is nor it is not. N...
Speaking for myself, if I were an old-school scientist - the kind who are hardcore physicalists - I'd be worried about Quantum Physics and how it seem...
:up: It looks like every pandemic scenario spawns it own strain of nutcases who, forget about trying to solve the problem on hand, actually make the s...
Correct and I suppose people back then had more faith in their governments than now. You mentioned some high-profile scandals and, to my reckoning, en...
Just like Dumbo is certain that the magic feather makes him fly, we too are completely convinced that it's the brain that thinks. The feather isn't ma...
My personal opinion is that if we have free will, rehabilitative and deterrent aspects of justice will work because a criminal has the ability to chan...
I'm inclined to agree with what you said if only because the same symbol e.g. C can represent the chemical carbon, a test grade, the first note in an ...
You disapprove. Why? What I said is congruent to what you've been saying, no? As an example, look at how civil engineers (I just met one outside my of...
@"Alkis Piskas" https://youtu.be/M-SNjVu5Ryg Dumbo thinks it's the feather that makes him fly but no, it isn't. Likewise, we think it's the brain that...
What I find both interesting and lamentable is that COVID-19 isn't the first pandemic the world has faced - there was the black death, cholera, and th...
Ok, I'll accept that you didn't say that but just imagine how pretty it would've been in if the founder of Judaism, Moses, were a Hindu, the founder o...
Matriarchy-Patriarchy In The Animal Kingdom (BBC) Some of the "...handful..." are hyenas, elephants, and bonobos. Anyway, mother nature is the wisest ...
Yeah! Fuck 'em all. The problem - Texas and the idiots in the Supreme Court migh just give birth to more Texas and more idiots at the Supreme Court! :...
I hear ya. Nevertheless, one of humanity's biggest problems is not getting our priorities right. For instance, save for a few enlightened countries, t...
Perhaps you'll feel more comfortable with the physicalist version of the skepticism advocated by René Descartes :point: Gilbert Harman's brain in a va...
I feel it's a case of poor memory and the Buddha's spotless image as a preeminent sage. Someone who recalls a quote but not the person to whom the quo...
What puzzles me is that cycles, the very essence of time keeping, is ubiquitous at atomic, planetary, solar system, and galactic scales but there's no...
Now that I think of it, what about the earth, the moon, and the sun itself viewed as one giant timepiece? It's mechanical alright and measures time ac...
I have a feeling that the sentence "nonexistence exists" is not well-formed. Nonexistence exists = Nonexistence is a thing AND that thing exists. What...
I'm sure it had something to do with accuracy and standardization - nonmechanical clocks were too unreliable and the units varied from region to regio...
Haven't you contradicted yourself there? That the ends justify the means implies you can throw people under the bus to gain "love." Some would say tha...
Of one thing we can be certain - minds. We can't disprove that there are no minds for to attempt to do so requires a mind, kinda like shooting oneself...
All that I'm saying is what happens if I take a modern text - a novel, a scientific treatise, a poem, etc. - and take it back 2,000 years into the pas...
It would depend (a lot) on how literature compares historically. Did people have a word like computer back in the old days or did they use compound wo...
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