Father I have sinned. I like porn (a lot). You might find this interesting. :point: Does Nature Have Value? An excerpt: The purpose of an individual's...
Where's the time? What are the pay-offs? As long as reputed journals are willing to publish your results and the accompanying hypothesis or whatever, ...
If I drop a tiny piece of paper on the spinning wheel, will the paper not fly off at a tangent? Yes, it will. What causes the paper to fly off like th...
Since you seem to be interested for some reason...hopefully, a good one...I'll let you know what I think of this problem with justification - it is ab...
You can do work with the spinning wheel i.e. the spinning (of the wheel) is energy - it's physical (matter & energy). A thought on the other hand can'...
Here's another way to look at it. Biology, the youngest of the sciences, is reducible to chemistry, chemistry to physics, physics to...here's where it...
From Star Trek Beyond (2016) Lt. Commander Leonard McCoy: Spock, wake up, damn it! Spock: I am entirely conscious, Doctor. I'm simply contemplating th...
My two cents. Suppose I assert the proposition Q. This proposition by itself can be either true/false, Q v ~Q When I assert Q, I mean that Q is true. ...
Exactly! You're under the impression that there's a distinction and even if there were one, it didn't matter to your decision - both were on the same ...
Why is it wrong but not cruel? I'll set up a scenario for you. You're the good guy! Yaay! Imagine yourself walking on the sandy dunes of a desert some...
:sweat: :sweat: Phew! You can't have it both ways, you know. Either there's been change (for the better :sweat: :sweat: ) or no such change is discern...
That's an outdated idea as far as I can tell. The modern outlook is holistic in charater. Gone are the days when it was us vs them. Now, it's only US ...
We're missing half the picture @"Banno". Of course the other half (the immaterial) maybe pure fantasy, a figment of our imagination as some might say....
Symmetry, in the context that you seem to be concerned about, seems limited to the number 2 (binary). Hence, your objection since you seem to detect a...
Let's begin small and a few billion years ago, shall we? In the primordial oceans when life first took hold on earth, the flagellum corkscrews its way...
Hold on a minute! That's precisely the point. You can't tell the difference between randomness and determinism (sorry, I can't find a better word). If...
Expand and elaborate, please! Dualism/yin-yang, as I explained to tim wood and baker, doesn't exclude the grey zone. Yin and yang are a dynamic duo ea...
You mean to say a bad person can't come up with a good argument? Do you mean to say bad people are bad precisely because they don't know what a good a...
Short answer: Ignorance Long answer: Ignorance elaborated. We don't or for some, like myself, can't comprehend realize the full import of our actions....
You would be contradicting yourself. To intuit the world is like and individual implies that you see a resemblance (analogy) and according to Leibniz'...
Good advice. I'll take it. That said, my intention was to point you to a reference on the dynamic nature of Yin and yang since you were implying balan...
Sorry but there's been a mix-up. I was under the impression that you were talking about the world as a superorganism like colonies of ants and bees. I...
I need to work on my observational skills. Either it's talent or practice and I lack the former and I'm just too scatter-brained for the latter. Woe i...
Bingo! We talked about this on another thread. I know this is going to make Albert Camus turn in his grave but I have this feeling that he's been crem...
I've seen theoretical probability matching experimental probability in less than ideal conditions. I guess what comes into play are errors (+/-) inste...
@"fishfry" Randomness, patternlessness, can be generated with an algorithm. Say, I'm the Cartesian deus deceptor (the evil demon) and I see someone ab...
Ebb & flow, ups & downs, wax & wane, crest & trough, peak & valley. These are all descriptions of the universe, life, everything that take into accoun...
I share your sentiments on that score. I'm actually surprised that physicalists/reductionists find this a hard pill to swallow. They have a very good ...
Hot-cold, Good-bad, Tall-short, Big-small, male-female, up-down, left-right, but more importantly, something you for certain will understand: is (p) a...
Rationality, for better or worse, is the self-proclaimed infallible authority. I'm merely testing it on itself. Fail! :chin: This isn't me justifying ...
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