TheMadFool

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This in itself is a paradox: We can break the laws of nature in a simulation even though the very code, the very machine running the code for that ver...

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Not intentional. Atheists (I'm agnostic) are of the view that there's a problem - the problem of evil - and that, if one extrapolates from there, impl...

The word "etc." makes it even more interesting than it already is. Depending on what beliefs one subscribes to, the justification explanation also dif...

I'm happy with the limited version of free will we have. I call it the It could be worse argument for free will. Just imagine yourself as an ordinary ...

Good analysis! :up: I'm hoping this'll happen sooner or later. Individuals usually get tired of the toys they have - they get bored and what was befor...

If memory serves you did complain, on numerous occasions, about how bad the situation was/is on our beloved planet. You called mother nature a bitch -...

This gives me an idea. The usual manner in which aircraft pilots report on visibility is in terms of distance but I feel a more helpful way would be i...

Good for the resident artificial consciousnesses.

God bless everyone! Good day.

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What intrigues me and also bothers me is that in the simulated virtual realities we build like in video games, the laws of nature that operate in the ...

Suppose, arguendo, we constitute a committee of experts. We have cracked the problem of artificial consciousness. This committe is tasked with creatin...

6 million dead, in the most horrifying of circumstances - starved, experimented on, robbed, worked to death, brutally murdered - and Jews still haven'...

Interesting! Sad too! :up: I think we need to recalibrate our moral compasses - do away with the notion of good (it's a myth) and just have bad but on...

Apart from the fact that both can be abbreviated as MC, I don't see any connection. I'm more interested in the Galactic Year. The earth rotates and we...

The beautiful country of Oman has been obliterated!

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God knew about the exponetial character of population growth! Malthusian Paradox: Food is, at the end of the day, living organisms (wheat, rice, meat,...

It takes a thief to catch a thief. :lol:

I don't think mother nature's antinatalistic. @"180 Proof"

When humans and probably other animals fall sick, our body temperature rises aka fever. Mother nature is sick! She has a fever! (Climate change!) COVI...

When humans and probably other animals fall sick, our body temperature rises aka fever. Mother nature is sick! She has a fever (global warming)!

I propose greenification of the Sahara desert (9,200,000 sq. km) and other deserts as an excellent and practical solution to climate change. Build a f...

We're in God's kitchen, inside his microwave oven to be precise. See :point:cosmic microwave background radiation (cmbr).. The current temperature of ...

\lim_{p \rightarrow \infty} P(a) = 100 \% Where, p = potentiality, a = actuality. P(a) = probability of an actuality (something) Nothing has infinite ...

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@"TheMadFool" You don't exist.

A format for an explanation for why there's something: Even if it were the case that nothing, it couldn't have stayed that way for long i.e. creatio e...

The man who knew too much :point: @"180 Proof" The man who knew the man who knew too much :point: @"TheMadFool" :grin:

Magnetism, Gravity, and Electricity were all, I suspect, candidate mechanisms for telekinesis/psychokinesis. Spoooooky! Very, very spoooooky!

I know! I suppose you don't have the time to expand and elaborate on what your definition of knowledge is.

:up: You too like a paradox every now and then, don't you? :grin:

I don't know: Admitting ignorance. Epistemic responsibility: You're responsible for your beliefs because they have consequences, moral consequences to...

You know what, I think I like your point of view for the following reason: We stopped being as violent as we used to be because it dawned on us that a...

You may not use the word "because". The way I see it is people want to be right i.e. they want their beliefs to match facts. Clearly, a belief may not...

To use a chess analogy, we have 3 options: 1. Checkmate 2. Draw 3. Stalemate Option 1 is impossible (MAD). Option 2 is pointless (why fight if you can...

Perhaps. We have no idea what's going on, do we? Then the question is what exactly is it that flows through the posited feedback loops? Unclear! :up:

:ok: That's all from me.

Our story begins In Media Res. Record of the past is incomplete and fragmentary, the future is an opaque fog, visibility down to a few minutes.

I could be very wrong about this but it seems as though you're trying to justify your position but then you said that isn't any good? I don't mind con...

I can only speak for myself. 1. That water (puts out fires) = hydrogen (burns) + oxygen (causes things to burn) is intriguing. 2. That humans are rela...

So, I can believe anything I want. That's a relief, sorta. However, what if my beliefs are false? Won't that impact my life and those of others (epist...

I wish I had read enough and also endowed with a good memory to give some "real" world examples but, for better or worse, I'll have to do this on the ...

What is/are the alternative(s)? Do we have a choice? Plus, everyone seems to have given it their nod of approval. Not an argument I know but still. Ke...

One of them should do the trick, at least that's the way it's been for as long as I can remember. There's more than one way to prove the Pythagorean t...

As far as I know, epistemic responsibility is about beliefs and justifications for those beliefs. Does taking the stand "I don't know" amount to profe...

One way could be to attribute consciousness to any network from two nodes onwards. We would then needn't worry about threshold network complexities th...