I'm not sure, but your concern seems to be consent, the lack thereof, in birthing children. While it's true that there are many of us who'd have wishe...
I envy your clarity of mind! I'm in a bit of a fog you see, as regards metaphysics. The Wikipedia article says metaphysics is about first principles, ...
:up: Much obliged! An interesting tidbit of history! In all likelihood number crunching was considered a menial task (mechanical rule following). Woul...
Thanks for reminder Gnomon. This generates a kinda sorta paradox where a fool (computer) beats a sage (a person, relatively speaking that is). :chin: ...
You're on target, sir/ma'am! However, who's coercing anyone to save the world? Do you think Alexander Fleming was bullied into discovering antibiotics...
I'm inclined to agree. Just got my new glasses - the optometrist told me I'll need to adapt to it. Could it be that the world is fuzzy and because of ...
As far as I know, a definition should list ALL SUFFICIENT & NECESSARY conditions for a word to apply to an object, and once this criteria is fulfilled...
Watch your words. You could be charged with aiding & abetting suicide! Weren't there highly publicized cases of such happenings? I'd better edit that ...
The patterns have to be remembered, that's what I believe learning is. However, pure memory seems adequate to appear intelligent. You could, for insta...
In the vernacular "trend" is near synonymous with "widely-held opinion". Loose usage I'd say, but nothing to be concerned about. Sorry, I don't follow...
Danke! Much appreciated! Gracias! @"Banno" Vide supra, Relativist's post! Ostensive definitions in re Wittgenstein? How does an AI know from pictures ...
True that! That's been one of the sticking points in the issue. If you're going to be pro-life then you gotta go the whole nine yards - from conceptio...
Here's food for thought! :chin: I can sense a trend here: The gestational age at which fetuses can survive outside the womb has decreased over the pas...
I completely forgot about Kant! Thanks for the reminder. As you would've already realized Kant's people as ends in themselves is at odds with another ...
Join the club mon ami! But I have a feeling I've died more times than you! I'm a pro at commiting suicide, political, philosophical, romantic, it's my...
Every country, people, person, group, tribe, everyone has their own bullshit. The task, it seems, is to sort, categorize, file and, finally...pick one...
:ok: From a military strategist's POV, all personnel & equipment must be provided with a self-destruct button/cyanide capsule. Idea Wars! Thesis & Ant...
If time travel is like the rewind function in an old VCR then causal paradoxes occur: To borrow Carl Sagan's example, a bulb will light before its swi...
@"schopenhauer1" How about if we adopt this position: Antinatalism is false doesn't imply that natalism is true. Find the middle ground as it were. We...
Statistics? Tyranny of the majority? :chin: There's got to be an overall trend, a widely-held opinion on all matters, including antinatalism/natalism,...
The OP's query is, by all accounts, very thought-provoking? The most common question that gets asked in re identity is 1. Who am I? (As an individual)...
:up: Like second-order predictions (vide Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari) that have an effect on the predictions. A very simple idea: If I foretell your ...
Superb! That's the kind of analytical work that deserves a gold star! That says it all, doesn't it? Vide infra \downarrow How is the right to privacy ...
Aye! It dawned on me, a coupla days ago, that The Simulation Hypothesis is unfaslifiable. The reason? The Simulation Hypothesis is predicated on the i...
Actually, time moves backwards, into our past. Note how 1 Jan 2022 was in front of us, then it was 1 Jan 2022, some of us celebrated, and then it flow...
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