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In: Material Numbers  — view comment
I'm reading this book on Mathematics, The Art of More it's called, by a Michael Brooks. It gives an account of how expert abacists can work sums with ...
February 27, 2022 at 18:39
In: Is depression the default human state?  — view comment
I guess the modern approach to mental health is get used to it! or, roughly, shut up or put up! It makes sense, pragmatically speaking; after all, the...
February 27, 2022 at 18:30
In: Ayn Rand's Self-Sainted Selfishness  — view comment
The word "selfish" comes with a baggage that makes it unsuitable for use in an Ayn Randian sense which I believe is about being independent, able to s...
February 27, 2022 at 18:24
In: How do we know if we know something?  — view comment
Pray tell, edify us as to what it is that you (seem to) know.
February 27, 2022 at 10:06
In: Is perfection possible?  — view comment
One can't then expect a perfect answer to your question, oui? :point: Perfect is the enemy of the good The obvious or natural question is "does God ex...
February 27, 2022 at 10:06
In: How do we know if we know something?  — view comment
Why not? Answer me, god damn it! Answer me! :grin:
February 27, 2022 at 09:54
In: Infinites outside of math?  — view comment
I'm somehow not convinced by your words. Uncountability is, in a sense, beyond (conventional) mathematics seen as a counting activity. True that the v...
February 27, 2022 at 07:56
In: Non-Physical Reality  — view comment
:up:
February 27, 2022 at 06:19
In: How do we know if we know something?  — view comment
To be an epistemological skeptic is to invite the judgment you just killed yourself!. The things we have to do for Sophia, the femme fatale in this 2k...
February 27, 2022 at 06:18
In: Non-Physical Reality  — view comment
Yep, you could say that. I'm basically interested in broad outlines, an overall skeletal framework that gives me something to work with. Thanks for th...
February 27, 2022 at 06:12
In: Non-Physical Reality  — view comment
I'm happy just knowing that the nonphysical is possible i.e. it doesn't entail a contradiction as such. The next step would be to prove that if possib...
February 27, 2022 at 05:49
In: Non-Physical Reality  — view comment
Reminds me of the fairy tale the Emperor has no clothes. It's not that meaning and acts of interpretation are nonphysical, it's just that you're too s...
February 27, 2022 at 05:46
In: Introducing myself ... and something else  — view comment
Nice! :up:
February 27, 2022 at 05:43
In: Non-Physical Reality  — view comment
Isn't that a self-contradictory position to take? If meaning and acts of interpretation are physically inexplicable, it implies the existence of a non...
February 27, 2022 at 04:34
In: Introducing myself ... and something else  — view comment
Ok, We'll have to back up a bit. What do you think the OP wants to discuss? As far as I can tell, the OP is about holism and antireductionism, for the...
February 27, 2022 at 04:31
In: Infinites outside of math?  — view comment
Well, all I meant to ask was whether something uncountable (an example of an uncountable infinity is the set of real numbers R) can be considered math...
February 27, 2022 at 03:38
In: Introducing myself ... and something else  — view comment
:ok: I don't quite get why you think the OP is about knowledge.
February 27, 2022 at 03:34
In: Is depression the default human state?  — view comment
A poor choice of words on my part.
February 26, 2022 at 22:02
In: Infinites outside of math?  — view comment
@"TonesInDeepFreeze", is an uncountable infinity a mathematical object?
February 26, 2022 at 21:59
In: Infinites outside of math?  — view comment
:ok:
February 26, 2022 at 21:54
In: Introducing myself ... and something else  — view comment
I believe the OP is trying to open a discussion on holism (the whole is greater than the sum of its parts) and antireductionism. I don't see why you h...
February 26, 2022 at 21:51
In: Is depression the default human state?  — view comment
I like to categorize the absence of depression as being of two kinds: 1. Too damned busy to be sad. For instance, does a soldier have time to mourn th...
February 26, 2022 at 13:59
In: Non-Physical Reality  — view comment
Step 1: The idea of the nonphysical, from what I know, doesn't entail a contradiction i.e. it's perfectly possible, as possible as it is for an apple ...
February 26, 2022 at 07:52
In: Steelman Challenge For Intellectual Rigor  — view comment
Immanuel Kant would've been enough if so.
February 26, 2022 at 07:34
In: Steelman Challenge For Intellectual Rigor  — view comment
:up:
February 26, 2022 at 07:33
In: Pessimism’s ultimate insight  — view comment
Boredom reflects, among other things, a change in our lifestyle, speaking in terms of humanity as a whole and not as individuals although it ultimatel...
February 26, 2022 at 06:24
In: Is Dishbrain Conscious?  — view comment
Interesting story, OP! This rather disturbing experiment goes to show that neurons are like wires and synapses like logic gates in a circuit board. In...
February 24, 2022 at 07:22
In: Need Help to Move On  — view comment
February 24, 2022 at 06:56
In: Infinites outside of math?  — view comment
1 apple + 1 apple = 2 apples 1 infinity + 1 infinity = 1 infinity :chin: Infinity broke math. Leopold Kronecker 1, Georg Cantor 0. Sorry Cantor old ch...
February 24, 2022 at 05:59
In: Need Help to Move On  — view comment
Your story should be adapted into an Agatha Christie murder mystery featuring the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot. As far as I can tell, it has all t...
February 24, 2022 at 05:57
In: Is there a wrong way to live?  — view comment
That's the whole point to anything at all. I don't see why you would find anything wrong with it.
February 24, 2022 at 05:53
In: Romanticism leads to pain and war?  — view comment
:fire: Align expectations with the real!. You phrased it differently last time. I liked that one better. Anyway, beggars can't be choosers! :grin: I'l...
February 23, 2022 at 15:52
In: Reality does not make mistakes and that is why we strive for meaning. A justification for Meaning.  — view comment
Reality doesn't make mistakes! https://youtu.be/s7RmcdHrYuk
February 23, 2022 at 15:35
In: Romanticism leads to pain and war?  — view comment
@"180 Proof" How did you put it? Align expectations with reality? Please repeat what ya said for our collective benefit. I quite like romanticism, if ...
February 23, 2022 at 15:25
In: Are we responsible for our own thoughts?  — view comment
Here's when I'm not responsible for my thoughts in my brain/mind/whatever! :point: When you put it there! :grin:
February 23, 2022 at 14:15
In: Are there thoughts?  — view comment
:broken:
February 23, 2022 at 14:14
In: Epicurus is the Single Most Influential Philosopher of all Time  — view comment
:grin:
February 23, 2022 at 14:13
In: Are we responsible for our own thoughts?  — view comment
I'm not thinking! Seriously! This isn't thinking, I tell you, it just isn't.
February 23, 2022 at 13:27
In: Are there thoughts?  — view comment
Miseram pacem vel bello bene mutari! :zip:
February 23, 2022 at 13:24
In: Are we responsible for our own thoughts?  — view comment
:fire:
February 23, 2022 at 11:51
In: Are there thoughts?  — view comment
:rofl: Now, now 180 Proof, be nice to the religious nutcases! :rofl:
February 23, 2022 at 11:47
In: Are there thoughts?  — view comment
Requiescat in pace! :death: :flower:
February 23, 2022 at 11:45
In: Epicurus is the Single Most Influential Philosopher of all Time  — view comment
:smile: I make you laugh, huh? God has answered my prayers. Praise the lord!
February 23, 2022 at 11:42
In: Epicurus is the Single Most Influential Philosopher of all Time  — view comment
O how I wish that was a description of me! :sad:
February 23, 2022 at 11:40
In: Non-Physical Reality  — view comment
:brow:
February 23, 2022 at 06:58
In: Epicurus is the Single Most Influential Philosopher of all Time  — view comment
What kinda laugh is this? :chin:
February 23, 2022 at 06:55
In: Epicurus is the Single Most Influential Philosopher of all Time  — view comment
I would say all these isms and whatnot are a mere smokescreen, a blind for what's really going on under the hood so to speak. If you disagree, here's ...
February 23, 2022 at 06:55
In: Are there thoughts?  — view comment
:confused:
February 23, 2022 at 06:46
In: Epicurus is the Single Most Influential Philosopher of all Time  — view comment
Epicurus got straight to the point. Stop trying to rationalize/sublimate; he cut through all the BS/noise that most other thinkers/philosophers were g...
February 23, 2022 at 04:04
In: Epicurus is the Single Most Influential Philosopher of all Time  — view comment
I'm persuaded, via what I've experienced and the little that I know, that the OP is on the mark. My hunch is that the history of the world, humanity e...
February 23, 2022 at 03:31
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