It might seem that there's more to a person than his intelligence but who in the hell decided to call our species homo sapiens (wise man)? Let's overl...
Odd things happen given enough time. There's a post somewhere in this forum where a member remarks, paraphrasing, "if time is infinite, anything that ...
I hope so too. COVID-19 might become just like the common cold virus - the worst that can happen is a few days in bed and that's it. From what I could...
I don't know why I used a computer analogy in my reply to Bylaw but it seemed relevant at the time (half-an-hour ago). Lemme see. It has to do with di...
Indeed it does but, the correlation between time and experience is not all that strong or, better put, years lived doesn't seem to guarantee experienc...
You're assuming too much. Years lived do not necessarily translate into experience. Look at Greta Thunberg, just 18 or so, and she's talks/acts like a...
Evil geniuses, the smart ones never get caught! True. However, this means that we need to take into account mental vs. physical age all the more. Afte...
So you would treat a progeria child patient as an elderly citizen? So, again truth is sacrificed for convenience and that's just the tip of the iceber...
I say don't be so/too quick to judge. Did you know that human offspring require, comparatively, the most care if they're to "make it" in an evolutiona...
:lol: So you don't care about what you said viz. luck (Gettier cases) explains stupidity (I like sushi's razor)? Ignorance is (some times) mistaken fo...
Should IQ tests (\frac{Mental Age}{Body Age} \times 100) be part of criminal law? People with low IQ are basically children trapped in adult bodies an...
Update In Buddhism there are The Three Poisons: 1. Moha (ignorance, pig) 2. Raga (greed/sensual attachment, bird) 3. Dvesha (hate/aversion, snake) In ...
No, no. I have a recollection of wanting to make an argument about a fictional character about 6 months ago but I couldn't figure out how because of t...
Update Epistemology, logic, morality, and avidya (deserves to be mentioned separately from the first item in this list?). What's the connection? Siddh...
:up: Like someone in the old forum said to a rather persistent/tenacious theist, paraphrasing, "you're privy to information we're not." Good to know s...
Free logic, as far as I can tell, seems to have an issue with the existential quantifier because, taking the fictional statement "some unicorn ate my ...
:up: I like that (attitude)! Please do. I'm all ears...er...eyes...and also...all thumbs. Don't expect me to endorse your point of view but if you fee...
Me too but I haven't seen much action for quite a while now, if you know what I mean. :grin: Guitar, I've tried and...failed (miserably). I'm tone dea...
Your position is, well, pixelized. It's rather vague, perhaps even too vague. You field a lot of never-before-heard (at least I haven't encountered th...
A couple of months, perhaps half-a-year ago, I had a thought about man-made stuff. You know as well as I do that economics - money really - runs the s...
This'll be my key premise. All things that fall under the category natural are recycled by the forces of nature - living/nonliving - and these process...
Food for thought: Why there is something rather than... \lim_{p \rightarrow \infty} P(a) = 100 \% Where, p = potentiality, a = actuality. P(a) = proba...
How is it not a paradox? A gravity-obeying machine can generate a world (the simulation) where gravity-defying feats can be accomplished. I can use th...
My idea is too simple to be incoherent. My challenge to antitheists/atheists is to get together a team (what kind of experts you pick is at your discr...
What I want to go into, inter alia, is virtual physics - it enables magic (fantasy games) and über-advanced technology (superhero and space genres). V...
I never claimed that simulated "agents" can break the rules of the virtual world they're in; nevertheless, I've seen hilarious and annoying as hell gl...
That's a good point! So-called random thoughts may actually be linked, Think of faucets - there are many in the house and prima facie it would seem th...
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