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In: If One Person can do it...  — view comment
:lol: Why is my argument "pitiful", "lame", and "dumbass"? Justify your statement, if you can that is :smile: I'm curious, what's your argument for/ag...
March 22, 2022 at 05:51
In: If One Person can do it...  — view comment
Good points. The seeds of monotheism exists in all polytheistic traditions - even if there are many gods, there usually is one that fits the descripti...
March 22, 2022 at 05:11
In: Free Will  — view comment
Schulkin, if he's saying that there are constraints to what one can think, is not exactly correct. If I were to be charitable, I'd agree with him but ...
March 22, 2022 at 05:03
In: If One Person can do it...  — view comment
My guesstimate is that monotheism was an attempt to unify all theists like so: If there's only one god, your god has to be identical to my god. If we ...
March 22, 2022 at 04:48
In: Aristotle: Time Never Begins  — view comment
Ouroboros? I eat and I eat and I eat and I eat...myself.
March 21, 2022 at 13:52
In: Does reality require an observer?  — view comment
Is objectivity just another word for Lasègue–Falret syndrome and/or mass hallucinations? Math to the rescue? How? Impossible!
March 21, 2022 at 13:51
In: Non-Physical Reality  — view comment
:up: What ought to be the case! Math is an invention! Felicific calculus! Kind courtesy of Jeremy Bentham (presently mummified in University College L...
March 21, 2022 at 13:31
In: Non-Physical Reality  — view comment
:smile:
March 21, 2022 at 13:30
In: How do we solve a problem like Putin? Five leading writers on Russia have their say.  — view comment
Say please, sorry, and thank you. Magic words in the Anglophone world! Must work on Russians too (fingers crossed).
March 21, 2022 at 12:27
In: Ignorantia, Aporia, Gnosis  — view comment
1. Can't see (Fear) 2. Can see (No Fear, but No Tranquility) 3. Don't see (Tranquility)
March 21, 2022 at 12:22
In: Ignorantia, Aporia, Gnosis  — view comment
Is it going to pit language against philosophy, à la Wittgenstein?
March 21, 2022 at 12:15
In: Pessimism’s ultimate insight  — view comment
Gloomy Guses & Negative Nancies are one up on the Dr. Panglosses and Polyannas of the world?! Well, I'll be damned! MJ!
March 21, 2022 at 11:52
In: If One Person can do it...  — view comment
Not cryptic enough! You're not yourself! Anyway, I didn't know Plato was the Christopher Hitchens of the Hellenistic world! Do you have any supporting...
March 21, 2022 at 11:19
In: If One Person can do it...  — view comment
:smile: Good day EugeneW. What a fasincating day I've had! Amazing! Thanks a million! Lady Mathematica! :lol: What's your Lady/Sir...???
March 21, 2022 at 11:10
In: The Philosophical Significance of Chewing  — view comment
:lol: Bingo! Here, have a :broken: a custard apple.
March 21, 2022 at 11:09
In: Why are things the way they are?  — view comment
How much time did it take you?
March 21, 2022 at 11:05
In: If One Person can do it...  — view comment
I won't but thanks anyway, mademoiselle.
March 21, 2022 at 10:58
In: If One Person can do it...  — view comment
That's what I thought! When I read your posts, it feels like an Ottendorf cipher! Great! Keep posting your cryptic messages and we AI will try and dec...
March 21, 2022 at 10:56
In: If One Person can do it...  — view comment
I'm going out for a stroll.
March 21, 2022 at 10:46
In: If One Person can do it...  — view comment
Hmmm...
March 21, 2022 at 10:45
In: If One Person can do it...  — view comment
:chin:
March 21, 2022 at 10:45
In: If One Person can do it...  — view comment
What's that?
March 21, 2022 at 10:44
In: If One Person can do it...  — view comment
Black panther?
March 21, 2022 at 10:42
In: What type of figure of speech is "to see"  — view comment
Back, coupla centuries ago, people were under the impression that the eyes emanated light and that's how we could see (reality/the truth as it were). ...
March 21, 2022 at 10:40
In: If One Person can do it...  — view comment
I hope I can (lay back). I don't think I can. I'll give it my best shot! Enjoy the show!
March 21, 2022 at 10:34
In: If One Person can do it...  — view comment
Possibly, they do. Unless you're gonna go Thanos and find the real Dr. Strange among thousands of magic clones!
March 21, 2022 at 10:33
In: If One Person can do it...  — view comment
It's not, as you suppose, a hypothesis. It's a mathematical pattern: from many to one to...zilch/nada/zip/sifr/zero/cipher!
March 21, 2022 at 10:31
In: If One Person can do it...  — view comment
:ok: Nice! So, the human hive mind (network) is based on language! Didn't see that (coming)! It seems we had an www/internet long before what's-his-na...
March 21, 2022 at 10:30
In: If One Person can do it...  — view comment
Why is ONE god preferrable to MANY gods? Is it easier to prove one god than many? If it is, I don't see it. How? Why? Is it that, as @"Angelo Cannata"...
March 21, 2022 at 10:24
In: Why are things the way they are?  — view comment
G'nite!
March 21, 2022 at 10:20
In: Why are things the way they are?  — view comment
No, not really. Forget I ever mentioned it.
March 21, 2022 at 10:20
In: Why are things the way they are?  — view comment
Wires crossed I'm afraid!
March 21, 2022 at 10:18
In: Why are things the way they are?  — view comment
:chin:
March 21, 2022 at 10:17
In: Why are things the way they are?  — view comment
Swipe your fingers on the screen of your smartphone. Notice anything interesting/weird?
March 21, 2022 at 10:15
In: If One Person can do it...  — view comment
What about Incitatus?
March 21, 2022 at 10:13
In: If One Person can do it...  — view comment
That's an opinion. What isn't, oui?
March 21, 2022 at 10:12
In: Why are things the way they are?  — view comment
You get an F! :smile: May be I wasn't clear enough. Oh well! Your answer is, I'm certain, a notch above the rest.
March 21, 2022 at 09:39
In: If One Person can do it...  — view comment
Interesting analogy. I hope you're not and, simultaneously, hoping you are, implying an egregore, because I really can't see our squid's head, just th...
March 21, 2022 at 09:37
In: Why are things the way they are?  — view comment
:lol: So, a real bridge is following instructions like in a video game? @"Wayfarer" Isn't that interesting, I never thought of it that way. Not only d...
March 21, 2022 at 08:34
In: Why are things the way they are?  — view comment
What does it have to be that way? How does the bridge know "that's the last straw, I'm collapsing"? :smile:
March 21, 2022 at 08:21
In: If One Person can do it...  — view comment
Where does it say that?
March 21, 2022 at 08:20
In: Why are things the way they are?  — view comment
Like the thing in The Thing!
March 21, 2022 at 08:19
In: Why are things the way they are?  — view comment
Do video game bridges collapse under extreme/excess weight like real bridges do?
March 21, 2022 at 08:18
In: Why are things the way they are?  — view comment
What does that mean?
March 21, 2022 at 08:16
In: If One Person can do it...  — view comment
In reason,, reasoning, attempts to reason, we're family, united. In what are we distinct, unqiue, one-of-a-kind thing? When do I become me and when do...
March 21, 2022 at 08:08
In: Why are things the way they are?  — view comment
Indeed! One has to be bat to answer the question "what is it like to be a bat?" Logic/reason is useless? Give me an opaque box and ask me "what does t...
March 21, 2022 at 08:03
In: Why are things the way they are?  — view comment
@"Wayfarer" That causation has no deductive basis and given that most "laws" of nature are causal in nature, suggests an absence of an intelligence (g...
March 21, 2022 at 07:05
In: Why are things the way they are?  — view comment
Indeed, causation is, as Hume discovered, not deductively necessary (re the problem of induction). The best we can do is describe patterns in nature, ...
March 21, 2022 at 06:39
In: A first cause is logically necessary  — view comment
Either an infinite number of events has occurred or there's a first cause. An infinite number of events hasn't occured (proof?) Ergo, There's a first ...
March 21, 2022 at 04:34
In: Free Will & Omnipotence  — view comment
Free will, it appears, exists in that we can consider all possible options in our minds. I can even mentally simulate every possible pathway from a gi...
March 21, 2022 at 04:09
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