Agent Smith

Then it's been deleted. :sad:

It was there just a minute ago, now it's gone! It's probably in the lounge. Try there if you would like to post.

An attempt at a resurrection of our discussion. I believe you're on the right track. Items 2 and 3 on my list are a bit off, but I tell myself all mor...

I read that argument somewhere, probably in a half-read book on philosophy. It does have a point to it - the extension of the word "equal" is the same...

Superb! I really am happy for you mon ami. Few people can say that, loneliness killing them off. Have you tried looking at it from an evolutionary sta...

That's there, true. I don't deny there are some coming-of-age rituals in many traditions that involve solitary trips into the unknown. However, the ob...

https://youtu.be/e4lI8e33U2A Jannat = Summa Cooperante! :rofl:

Neoliberalism obviously can't surgically separate, for it, the conjoined twins (economic growth) and (guns, drugs, suicides, mass shootings).

Al-haqq (The Truth), what is it?

Danke! I recall saying that Schrödinger's =n is not a mathematical contradiction but is an English (natural language) contradiction.

I like it nevertheless.

Somehow I believe you. :up:

:rofl: Absolute evil is the reflection/mirror image of Jesus in Christianity and the Buddha of Buddhism. Moses and Muhammad, although good, were quite...

Well then what explains all the Sturm und Drang mon ami?! Why the hullabaloo if the cat is simply dead OR alive?

:up: Like philosophy is one.

The Hard Problem of Consciousness! :up:

One has to understand oneself and reality in a way that is unique to onself. We're all wearing, how should I say this?, a pair of unique-to-us tinted ...

Any thesis is significant to its antithesis and vice versa for a simple reason: they contradict each other. In terms of the ideaverse, the mental coun...

I should've worked harder in high school.

As we can see whomsoever it was that, long time ago, claimed nuclear weapons are pointless, is right on the money. Nobody can use it. It's just there ...

@"180 Proof" The map-territory idea is vital to our discussion. Gnomon, your interest lies in an idealized map (pure abtraction) and as 180 Proof poin...

@"Jack Cummins" Humans are social creatures and there's an instinctive desire for company. I believe there are psychological studies that show those w...

I thought that superposition is a fact and not just a hole in our knowledge. In other words the coin is heads and tails and not that it's either heads...

Being alone is stressful, as I said.

Looks like a quickly-written list mon ami. Were you in a hurry to get somewhere?

Superb analysis. :up:

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Indeed!

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To resolve the contradiction mon ami, that's one way to look at it. Schrödinger's cat (call PETA asap) is both dead and alive (this is impossible in o...

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Pseudoinfinity? Boundless but finite?

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https://youtu.be/jaGLDKBE8Ho There are enough-plenty dollars in homeless folks. It's just that no one has seen 'em ... yet!

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May I share some more of my mathematically profound intuitions ... again? :smile:

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C'est la vie, eh @"schopenhauer1"?

:up: Good exchange. What was your goal, if I may ask, mon ami?

Then we're off-topic, oui?

:up: I know mon ami, it's just that in the real world, an omelette in the pan means a (hopefully) few, broken eggs.

The notion of ends justifying the means is incoherent (to me) without the end having more weightage than the means.

Well, you seem to think so. Save your son. The point you're trying to make has utility monster undertones.

Please save your daughter.

:up: Exactly. The subjective nature of our experience of our selves precludes any attempt to analyze it objectively. I feel most studies on Being end ...

The ends justify the means, that's what we're discussing here mon ami.

The question doesn't make sense. 1. Good means, good ends 2. Bad means, good ends 3. Good means, bad ends 4. Bad means, bad ends

I could easily respond to that by saying ... 2. Kill 100 (bad subgoal) to save 500 (good goal) 3. Saving 100 (good subgoal) to kill 500 (bad goal) ......