Agent Smith

I'll get back to you later Nickolasgaspar.

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I agree. Everything.

I have no idea what you're talking about. Here's the deal: Hypothesis: House E is haunted. Testing the hypothesis: Visiting E to find out if it's haun...

I don't quite get positivism. It's supposed to be the stance that only verifiable claims are in aany way important or truth-apt. Any and all claims th...

Why would you think that "it is something else"? Have you read/seen the Mahabharata? I recommend it, with subtitles of course. Opens up a new window o...

Yeah, unethical it is!

Like I mentioned elsewhere, to another poster, we're all humans i.e. we share a biology that would, in my humble opinion, mean that my experiences (in...

What's wrong with what I said? There's this house. I want to know if it's haunted. Don't I have to go inside the house to check if it is or no? Likewi...

How true! Did you know that the Krishna - avatar of Vishnu, the supreme god of the Hindu Trimurti - is less well known for his miracles than his cunni...

I was referring to DNA relics, if such exist, the kind that could be reactivated in order to express long-dead phenotypes. What did humans look like 2...

I wish there was a named effect/problem I could use here. Here's the deal: I want to know if there's ghost in a house. I can't know unless I go inside...

Maybe a sampling bias. You seem very much interested in metaphysics which is, from what I can tell, yet to mature philosophically like, for instance, ...

Some say that philosophy and psychology are joined at the hip.

So you're of the view that most of what's on this forum is pseudo-philosophy? I haven't actually studied the threads on here but from a drive-by they'...

:up: Right there you've done an exposé of religious scams. All the religions of the world piggyback on fun things to do. The Trojan horse, my friend. ...

The question of all questions is: Is life funny? The existentialist Albert Camus thought life's basically a waste of (precious) time - Sisyphus rolls ...

What's the difference between philosophy and pseudo-philosophy? I don't mind people using philosophy as a psychological crutch, to validate their own ...

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Exactly! I can, any intelligent being can, generate true randomness. Imagine I'm sitting behind a screen (you can't see me). On your screen is a virtu...

:ok: Merci beaucoup.

I sometimes feel my body's a machine and there are things, like lighting up my coffin nail, I can do apparently as easily as clicking a button. I dunn...

In other words, justifying the PSR is beside the point.

So there can be no consensus on pain? What about analgesics like aspirin, paracetamol, etc.. They seem to have a good track record; why else do they s...

So, a person who's in pain but alone, isn't in pain? When a tree falls and there's no one around, does it make a noise? :joke: I never quite understoo...

Do you think that's a good thing? You know, evolutionarily...?

Correction! Aryan...apes? :up: Rings true!

Would the real hurt more than the simulation? It frequently pops up in discussions on Wittgenstein. Pain presumably collapses the pereceived boundary ...

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:up: That's what to me is a joke that stands out from the rest.

I don't want to insult your intelligence by doing something you can do effortlessly. Coming to satire, I find it very stimulating, intellectually that...

I don't usually do things Google can do.

Not we, you have come full circle.

A cliché simply means overused to the point of no longer being interesting. It doesn't mean it's false. There are many comedians who can make you :rof...

There are ways... We could calculate using algebraic techniques. In the case of squares, Pythagoras' theorem shows us that the diagonal is \sqrt 2.

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This is poor logic. I've used a block of wood on nails, when I couldn't find my hammer. When I did find my hammer, I threw away the wood. True measure...

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An accident is meant here as a random event.

So, the basic idea is that science has two components: 1. Description: How matter & energy behave, detailed in the laws of nature, some of which are m...

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Well yeah, but that's too narrow a definition in my humble opinion. Satire comes closest to what Wittgenstein said about how serious philosophy can be...

And I'm saying we don't have an option. Infinity and infinitesimals are the best available tools we have to study curves. Maybe some day we'll discove...

As far as I can tell, you're mistaken about the Null Hypothesis. It's a statistical tool applied to populations and is designed to assess causality. T...

Greek thought peaked roughly 2.5 centuries before Jesus preached his first sermons in the Levant. This puts Jesus in a time when Greek civilzation was...

I don't know who it was, probably Yuval Noah Harari (Israeli historian), that said that our DNA contains a record of the past experiences of our ances...

We must possess data that at the very least suggest the possibility of objects (animate/inanimate) having souls. We can't let our imagination get the ...