Agent Smith

If you simulate a cannonball, the computer has to perform actual calculations for the trajectory. Is our universe (also) a computer?

:100: The spiritual is essentially, by its very nature, all the proof we need of the nonphysical, kinda like how being able to feel pain is proof that...

Indeed, decidely computer-like, using a brute-force search algorithm.

Read the link. Hubert Yockey's position resonates with my own in that the transition from chemistry to biology is one of type and not degree (life isn...

:up: The retracing of the steps back as in Ariadne's thread is a feature of sequential processing. Nature's a parallel processor, like you seem to be ...

W + W = W2 W + W = W2 Ergo, W = 2 :cool:

Here's food for thought: Cold isn't really a thing, as much of a thing as heat is and darkness is also not really a thing, as much of a thing as light...

It appears that nature's strategy is Ariadne's thread. Go down one possibility branch. If it doesn't work, go back to the node from which it originate...

I was hopin' for errors to lead to correct results. I believe @"punos" made a reference to accidental discoveries. For example, Roentgen carelessly le...

Danke for the link. Much appreciated.

Two wrongs make a right? 2 + 184 + 453 - 2 = 637. I thought 2 was a 7 and I added it; I made the same mistake again (thought 2 was a 7), but this time...

:lol: Trial and Error?!

By mistake I refer to genotypes that cause morbidity and mortality e.g. sickle cell anemia which is a case in point because the sickle cell trait is s...

:up: To make the long story short, we're in the dark about the conditions on earth (temperature, pH, chemical content, etc.) approx. 4.5 billion years...

Hi Jack. That's a lot to digest mon ami. I suppose there's method to (nature's) madness. Does that sum up your thesis?

Allah Rahim (God is merciful) mon ami, Allah Rahim.

Genes keep making the same mistake (mutation) over and over again ... that's life's little secret. :zip: don't tell anyone.

Panspermia is problematic in the same way as the argument for God as a cause is - simply kicks the can down the road.

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How true! I've seen some pretty ugly male singers though. I guess males have other things on their mind, like e.g. pretty women.

@"180 Proof", make the correct mistake.

Indeed, pornography is a gateway activity - the first domino to fall or the first link to disappear with the anchor into the abyss. Kinda like C2H5OH,...

I wasn't exactly talking about learning. Close enough nonetheless.

Ethically, it's suspect in the eyes of even those who earn their daily bread from it.

Nice! The happy mistake, the blessing in disguise, the lion that scared away the wolves. :cool:

I always wanted to be a comedian. No luck, perhaps I ain't sad enough! :lol:

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We're all (genetic, re mutation) mistakes. Mistakes making more mistakes is what explains the population explosion.

Agnosticism isn't a lack of belief.

Where does a 600 pound gorilla sleep? Any damn place he wants to! :lol: :monkey:

It must be quite disheartening for philosophers to hear someone say "This? This is merely real!" What's priceless is the unreal and we do an about tur...

If censorship becomes a normal everyday affair, we must learn to listen to the silence! :cool:

Is there a philosophy of porn? If there isn't one, I'd be happy to collaborate with anyone who wants to socratically examine the subject. By the way, ...

:lol: Witfarer! For me "singularity" is interchangeable with "revolution". A transformation in type and not in degree. There's no such thing a human g...

To answer the OP, pageantry was always part of the act; it just wasn't as spectacular as it's now. I believe it's called presentation, in this case th...

We seem to owe nothing to animals - we eat them without as much as a twinge of guilt/remorse.

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Evolution is trying to understand evolution. Marvelling at nature is nature blowing its own trumpet. Humans can do better and that's a (technological)...

China copies America copies Nature. Nature doesn't think. Quite the role model, eh?

:lol: That's exactly the point I was looking for. Rocks lack belief. So are rocks atheists if atheism is, as some claim, a lack of belief?

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I don't know if I should be thoroughly impressed or utterly bored of such achievements. As a human it sure is amazing how we've built robot birds but ...

It's sad that our ideals don't include our nature - we have to discard that which makes us us to be any good in some people's eyes. Sex is a case in p...

Has anyone mentioned the Kama Sutra?

:up: There's sex and there's Tantric sex. Part of the Mahayana Buddhist tradition is to come to an understanding of our sexuality or so I was told. I'...

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I'm just curious about a fact that's obvious given but a moment's reflection - why are there no aesthetically-challenged female singers?

I'm sure every teen in me stretch of the neighborhood has watched porn, but when I talk to them, they seem like normal, good people. As far as I can t...

I'm left wondering whether this isn't just some kinda mistake we're making. If there is a connection between e.g. philosophical nonphysicalism and rel...