Scope Insensitivity The time scales involved are too large for people to fully grasp the magnitude of problems like global warming which has taken rou...
That's what I'm talking about! Everyone wants to be an übermensch! It is, truth be told, an irresistable impulse! To deny/reject is a bigger deal than...
True! Like I suspected, there's evil (openly malicious) and then there's evil evil (mimicking good, doubling the sin). I wouldn't say they're my favor...
Hear! Hear! Yep, it appears we've been asleep at the wheel. Someone, there were nearly 4 billion of us on the planet back when we could've taken some ...
I wouldn't say that. Which is more impressive, a sinner trying to be good or a saint doing good? That's a good one! Epoché! The assumption being knowl...
Wanting to be übermenschen is a natural instinct - we all desire it and spend a whole lot of energy and time trying to be supermen. In other words the...
We're born sinners, (slightly) more evil than good. Evil it seems is the default (re selfish genes); plus the good too are ultimately selfish (altruis...
There's more than one way to skin a cat. The solution to the fossil fuel catastrophe (imminent or already in progress) isn't necessarily finding an al...
:smile: A particle feels more real than a wave function. It's got that tangible quality that (say) an apple/rock has. That should, in my humble opinio...
@javra To my understanding neither multivalued logic nor fuzzy logic deny the LNC. They seem to be about truth value, how many of them are there or ne...
You'rr correct! The properties of the whole tend to be inexplicable from a parts point of view (holism: the whole is not just the sum of its parts). T...
@Harry Hindu I have mixed feelings about irrational numbers. They've been proven to exist from the time of Pythagorss (\sqrt 2) but it's an open secre...
Interesting to say the least. I don't know if this is related or not, but I recall reading that electrons/particles are only a fuzzy probability distr...
Good point! You understand teachers, math teachers to be precise, well! To All Consider the cancellations in a math calculation problem in an examinat...
Muchas gracias for the illimuinating explanation. I think I already said this before and it was probably to you that I said it to you. There's an alte...
So, basically, we have to use x (a variable) for all (efficient?) causes of all events. The variable x can take on any value; the effect (the event in...
The implausibility of a claim X is a function of, is directly proportional to, the improbability of X. When an improobable event occurs, there are two...
We're more in control of ourselves than animals i.e. relatively speaking, we do possess free will; plus this control can be improved with praxis. Mora...
I'm just amazed at how Tertullian or whoever first said "certum est, quia impossibile" and "credo quia absurdum" antcipated Popperian science. Surely,...
1. Animals are moral subjects (they can suffer and enjoy). 2. Animals are not moral agents (they either lack free will or are less free than us; ought...
Understand: It makes sense. Incoherent: It doesn't make sense. These concepts seem important: Apophenia & Pareidolia. To get right to the point, incoh...
A lot of very peculiar usages of terminology that have very specific conventional meanings - any attempt to establish a connection betwixt the two is ...
:snicker: From a Darwinian standpoint, the passions are not devoid of reason; as I said, there are very good reasons why one loses one's temper, or fa...
@noAxioms It's a bewildering labyrinth of ideas if you ask me. Merci beaucoup for the informative post; my suspicions were proven right, instantaneous...
:up: Here's a thought: Suffering/Pain (avoid) and Happiness/Pleasure (approach) are kinda like a guidance system that keeps life, including humans, in...
Let's not control anything, guns or whatever else; let's free our minds! I think the effect is gonna be the same (less violence, but the way we're gon...
Not to contradict you but here's the deal. 1. Existence is inseparably linked to happiness & suffering. It's kinda a package deal of sorts: If you wan...
I don't understand why there's (usually) such a strong emotional bond between mother and child? The mother's immune system attacks (to kill) the fetus...
The only difference between Covid and Monkeypox is that we have a vaccine that works for the latter (Smallpox vaccine; efficacy 85%, not bad, oui?). K...
:snicker: We were all once lumps then. You have a point! The placental barrier without which the mother's immune system would attack the fetus like it...
Same here! Einstein's worldview didn't allow for spooky action at a distance - it just didn't gel/jibe with his other ideas, whatever they were. The l...
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