TheMadFool

An excellent draft for any future gun laws/restrictions. Kudos to you. :up: Yes, I think the OP was being ironic but guns were, still are, probably wi...

So, not knowing whether it'll rain or not tomorrow means you'll take your umbrella. What about if you know it'll rain tomorrow. You'll take your umbre...

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I'll take first bite. You've answered your own question. Pat yourself on the back and give yourself a treat.

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That's tax. If the government wants to keep it why give it and then take it back? Something doesn't add up.

:up: Beautiful attitude! Kudos. I want to bounce this nagging doubt I have off of you and others interested: Indian Giver Tax Puzzle Scenario 1 Person...

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Even though that's really hard for some to wrap their heads around, I can relate to it - for better or worse, my romantic relationships have been excl...

Point made, point taken! Nonetheless, sex dolls probably give a man an experience superior to wanking, you know, like as if in bed with a real woman -...

It seems I've failed to make my point. If you don't know whether it'll rain or not tomorrow, what do you plan to do the coming day with your umbrella ...

On target 180 Proof, not something new to you. I guess I'm trying to draw a rather disturbing similarity between machines - the most popular term for ...

I don't know whether to laugh or cry.

I reckon you actually mean, no identity without entity. Indeed, if the I is a process instead of an entity, it can be copied from one physical medium ...

Information - from which shade of color to apply to how my paintbrush should move across the canvas - and so, my best hunch is you think souls are pur...

Truth be told, our brains seem capable of grasping multivalent and fuzzy logic and that seems to suggest some kind of analog nature to it. However, ev...

But reincarnation requires a transferance of a metaphysical entity that, oddly, rhymes with sole - a soul - from one dead body to a living fetus. Your...

There is light at the end of this tunnel :sweat:

Please, please, don't do that. Take this as a plea, a earnest, heart-felt entreaty. :pray:

The pre-theistic moral vacuum conundrum for theism If god's necessary for morality, explain how humans got to the point, sans religion mind you, when ...

User Illusion Was it Sigmund Freud, can't recall, who used the iceberg analogy for consciousness? It basically states that what we're aware of conscio...

Then this is where we part ways...Good luck, fellow traveller.

Yes. Are you serious? Read above.

Is it me? I'm not sure but my point is there's an overlap in the traits that define slaves and robots. Commonalities tend to elicit a sense of oneness...

Expand and elaborate...please. Update Imagine if I tell you that I have an entity X and I make X work from daybreak to nightfall in my house, I bought...

So, it all boils down to how much one's able to spend - graded service with costs pro rata are available for the ill. That's the classic format for pr...

I'm afraid the brain has to be a digital computer, if it's a computer at all, since neuronal firing is all or none (on/off or 1/0).

Then what's all the fuss about? I'm curious.

Now, from the above, "definition", it might appear that there's an essence to metaphysics but I don't think there's one because the term was simply a ...

What a lovely coincidence! Good to know I'm on the same wavelength as Isaac. What can I put on the table that someone hasn't already? Let's see... It'...

It's a rather intriguing dilemma if you ask me. Either you nationalize the health sector or you privatize it. If you nationalize the health sector, mo...

No, no, I want to see it from your point of view. That's why I want to know what your assumptions are.

That's your side of the story. https://youtu.be/tfM5-pY5YXs

H-O-W-E-V-E-R (how do I increase the font size?), as Abu Hirawa, in the Misfits (2021), says,

So, Buddhism did have a finger in that pie though, it seems, they decided, for good reasons no doubt, not to open that can of worms. Good to know. Tha...

That's a nice way of putting it. I didn't know people were so lax with words though because the correct expression, in my humble opinion, should be "i...

Even I've been thinking along that line. There's something seriously wrong with the economics of this day and age. It's not that there are particular ...

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Harry Nyquist (1889 - 1976) Information Theory Your namesake was one of the pioneers of information theory.

That went over her head. How quickly the tables had turned. She went off the deep end and her opponent knew this was a cold day in July. :smile:

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@"apokrisis" I'd like your opinion on an idea that I have about the connection between skepticism and information theory. You're well-versed in both t...

:ok: :up: :point: Tit for tat

Idioms and our comprehension of ancient languages. "Hit the nail on the head" doesn't mean there's a nail or that someone hit that nail on its head. I...

So, you're saying I'm abnormal, cuckoo? What then of the tit-for-tat strategy? Is it too something only a deranged person would use?

I defer to your better judgment!

It maybe so but here's the deal. Assuming I fall within the category normal human beings, I began with a sense of guilt for eating plants, they are af...

https://youtu.be/p7rk-SXjWG8 The thing outside of itself knows the thing in itself. I've always wondered about inanimate objects and what, if they cou...

Answer: It was hideously ugly!