Double Slit Experiment & Wigner's friend The facts (as they stand): When only God's observing the double slit & we're not, electrons behave as waves. ...
TATA, for all its money and human resource, may not be quite be the quality benchmark it has to be to make your case. I hope we're talking about the s...
There are (2) different kinds of simulacra: 1. Partial Cartesian : Yuval Noah Harari calls them "imagined orders" e.g. religion, culture, governments,...
That gives me an idea. log_24 = 2 Therefore... 2. The Riemann Hypothesis is true.] Now, when some comes up with the actual proof and asks me "is this ...
A difference subtle. Not my cup of tea I'm afraid but I'll give it my best shot: How about if I say it's a matter of degrees and not type and so destr...
I wish we we were all like artists; not letting our emotions muck up our work. In fact it seems as though an artist's creative spark is ignited to ful...
Criteria for promotion: 1) Flat rank up: Promotion to general from brigadier rank means you have to be a competent brigadier. Peter principle applies....
Inanimate objects can be beautiful. To defile that which is beautiful is evil. Morality is not just about life, humans or animals; it's also about the...
X is logically necessary iff ~X is/leads to a contradiction. Is nothing i) in and of itself, a contradiction? ii) a prelude to a contradiction? Please...
I defer to your superior intellect o wise one! :up: Excellent point. You echo the late Christopher Hitchens! The rest of your post, :up: Women, if you...
I'm afraid Yuval Noah Harari (re his book Sapiens) wasn't as right as I thought he was. He makes the claim that the gobal pie has increased in dimensi...
I'm so glad that you have image posting privileges because they're always good images allowing us to see at a glance the heart of an issue. A picture ...
CO2 emission reduction due to Covid (1 year)= 2.3 \times 10^9 tons. 1 person emits 2 tons of CO2 per year. Death toll from Covid (humans as individual...
Some can! Of all the people in the world, these are the ones that arouse my envy. My usual reaction/response is to use my finger and draw on the groun...
Non-human CO2 emissions per year \approx 34 \times 10^9 tons (34 billion metric tons) 1 human produces around 2 tons of CO2 per year. In terms of CO2 ...
The only conclusion that seems reasonable to state is some kind of categorical relationship between Ayes and Seas (Bees being the middle term). There ...
Sorry for butting in, but you seem to have raised an important issue here. Morality/ethics is rather feminine (soft, yielding, passive, and so on), yi...
Children 1. Creation. 2. Nurture. 3. Release (into the wild). It takes a team: family (parents, siblings, uncles, aunts, cousins, grandparents) + frie...
We can come up with a sensible answer to this very vexing question the OP asks. After death The body (brain included): Decays and, as some spiritual f...
Nothing is more relatable e.g. I have 0 dollars in my bank account. :sad: Infinity, nobody's seen an actual infinity save in math but there too it's o...
Definition of will: A legal document containing instructions as to what should be done with one's money and property after one's death. https://youtu....
:up: Have you read The Quantum Zeno Effect (QZE)? There's a Wikipedia entry if you're interested. It's basically The Observer Effect (OE) in the quant...
Men are as vital to (pro)creation as women although this :point: "It may come as a surprise to some of our male readers, but you all actually started ...
I didn't realize this before but it seems that just like one picks up a habit like smoking, one also becomes accustomed to think in certain ways. Auth...
I call it as I see it. That's all. Watch any movies lately? Most actresses have only supporting roles. Men still rule the roost on screen; hearkens ba...
A robot will intend to follow Asimov's laws, but then that means it doesn't have to follow Asimov's laws. Kavka's toxin puzzle: I intend to drink the ...
Some kind of overhaul & revision of our values would be necessary, one that justifies equal and good pay for a doctor, a mechanic, a barber, etc. you ...
I was led to believe that the right to bear arms has one and only one purpose - to enable the people to fight fire with fire in case of a government, ...
:ok: Women, they were once, how shall I put it?, support staff. Mohammed had many wives, Moses too practiced polygamy, but Buddha, on the other hand, ...
Lovely question. :up: Which is worse/better: Electric chair/Firing Squad? I haven't really given these matters as much attention as I believe they des...
While I am interested in knowing more about Asimov's 3 laws, how they stand up to deeper analysis, I'd also like to know a short phrase/name for such ...
:smile: I'm a chain-smoker. I know the feeling. This is anecdotal but a colleague of mine told me (today) that his friend tested negative for Covid fo...
A robot to which the 3 laws of robotics applies is one that is sentient enough for the 3 laws of robotics not to apply to it. What's a name for this k...
Krishna was a man. Buddha was a man. Moses was a man. Jesus was a man. Mohammad was a man. . . . But... Hitler was a man. Stalin was a man. Mao was a ...
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