Agent Smith

Fairness? I was under the impression that everybody knew life isn't fair. A few ideas that seem to be relevant: 1. Deservingness 2. Equality We seem t...

Why is it like that? I mean are we machines used by...?

Thus, our bodies are like the contraptions/machines we use everyday of our lives, from your humble toaster to an advanced F-35, we can use it without ...

It's an analogy, that's all. The bottom line is this: 1. Philosophical definition (used by philosophers and other thinkers who mind their ps and qs) 2...

Is the unpredictability absolute i.e. is it impossible to predict or is it just that we don't have powerful enough supercomputers i.e. unpredictabilit...

Thanks! I believe I have that book in my e-book library. Will read it. I don't feel how my kidneys produce urine, but I do bleed the lizard at regular...

You homed in on a very important point. I congratulated you on it. You went berserk! Nec caput nec pedes.

Well, that's a possibility that I can't rule out. However, it seems the two of us are converging on the same spot. Words and the things they refer to ...

We seem to be able to download the thoughts of other folks; that's what we do, absorb information from books, articles, essays, papers authored by oth...

Point made, point taken. It's just that for some folks, God isn't just a concept like Darwinian evolution isn't just a theory. There have been attempt...

A modern-day reenactment of the Old Testament? :chin: The horrific experience of the holocaust seems to have been forgotten? :chin:

God is as much a concept as an electron is in my humble opinion.

Did I mention the following? 1. Mill's 5 Methods 1. Method of agreement A, B, C correlates with X, Y, Z A, E F correlates with X, Q, R X \to A Thus, A...

Chaoskampf. The thirst for order; the alternative is insanity.

:rofl: I wish...haven't laughed in a while except yesterday when watching They do it with mirrors (Ms. Marple), a TV adapatation of an Agatha Christie...

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Putin was probably hoping for a repeat of that when he launched the full-scale invasion of Ukraine on 24 Feb 2022 - an analysis of Russian preparation...

I read his biography & life's work on Wikipedia. He comes across as a genuine person - did extensive research on subjects that interested him, formula...

Does physical acuasality lead to (a) contradiction(s)? What does it mean when Hume claims that a (billiard) ball could do anything (attain any velocit...

Stay safe :mask:

Sorry. Carry on.

That's deeeeep, dude! Deeeeeep! :up:

:up: How to draw: Step 1: Draw the form/structure (circles, straight lines i.e. math/science?) Step 2: Flesh it out (the imperfections, too Platonic?)...

The OP's concern can be rephrased as is a world without causality possible? Let's put on our thinking caps. A world in which there's no causality woul...

@"Banno" This just crossed my mind. Being of Wittgensteinian bent (language games, meaning is use and all), I'm quite taken by surprise that you would...

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All I did was provide a (rational) basis for an age-old explanatory model viz. one God, to the Saracens, Allah. The argument gains strength under Idea...

Why, in your opinion, is the real on every occasion, portrayed as being worse than the illusion. Too good to be true is the taekeaway here, oui? You w...

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Indeed, the kill switch. I completely forgot about that! Always comes in handy when things go sideways! :up:

I feel sometimes that humans are Peter Pans (re neoteny as seen in salamanders). We never achieve maturity. I suppose we did get our wish, even Tithon...

This, I guess, isn't related to anything you said; nevertheless, it's in need of some pondering. Why do men have nipples? AND Why do women have clitor...

Have you looked into 1. The Principle of Plenitude 2. Modal Realism Both, more or less, claim that possibile worlds, all of 'em, are actual. If it cou...

Well, that's great, but I feel it's advisable to get the opinion of an immortal before we get all busy trying to upload our minds onto all kinds of st...

You say it better than the mathematicians! :up:

Nevertheless, a nifty move! Of course the problem doesn't go away. Even if F = ma, why should it it be that and not F = \frac{m}{a}? I suppose I'm see...

It just seemed a viable explanation. From a woman going "I like (other) women" to the same woman thinking "I'm a man!" is a highly plausible scenario ...

I believe Wayfarer and unenlightened are on the right track, as suggested by them bringing up mathmematics (The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathemat...

If causality isn't deduction-apt, explain how we land robotic rovers on Mars and how Russian missiles are laying waste to Ukrainian cities.

To Mathematicians Is Chaos Theory (math) an admission that the calculations involved are too complex for humans and current top-of-the-line supercompu...

How do we tell the difference between lesbians and trans men? This is only a hunch but I feel trans men conflate a (sexual) preference for women (lesb...

It's quite convenient actually. You can do harm to Jesus and the Holy Ghost and you could still be in good terms with God (they aren't the same) and, ...

Yep! That's it! Most of Christian doctrine were voted into "truths" (Councils). A lot of time was spent/wasted on trying to then put these "truths" on...

Well, if what I said doesn't do the trick, I don't know what will. Maybe if we take induction in a mathematical sense (deductive), it'll help.

Well, from classic definition of induction as an argument from particulars to generalities and back.

Très bien, mon ami! Simple! To add, we may need to transplant our GI tract too. You know, to not lose our gut instincts! :grin:

:lol: Yup, à la Socrates although his death was by hemlock. What's a hangman's rope anyway, a plant product after all. :chin: Plants...they have a way...

Hume only points out that one can't come up with an a priori deductive argument for causality. However, a posteriori deductive arguments for causality...

:up: Good, even if somewhat idiosyncratic, definitions. Well, it's definitely much better to maintain a flexible attitude when it comes to definitions...

What about net ethical points as commensurable by means of positive and negative valences assigned to one's deeds? So I might've done +3 good and -2 b...