Agent Smith

I don't think Kant would've agreed; unfortunately, he (Kant) is no more and all we can do is guess his responses. I'm too ignorant to comment on that ...

Indeed! Oh! Sorry, didn't read universeness's post. S/he seems busy...

If you say so...

Truth is Wittgenstein, nec caput nec pedes. Universeness? The only discussion I had with him/her I can remember was on antinatalism. S/he's a natalist...

World GDP = $80,934,771,028,340 World population: 7,000,000,000 That works out to $1.32 per hour. Minimum wage (USA) is $7.25 per hour. Middle class? ...

I get what you're trying to say, but you're committing two errors: 1. Mistaking your ignorance for fact. 2. A network is still amenable to a referenti...

Kant and Bentham-Mill would've never formulates their theories sans a definition i.e. answering the question "what's ethics?" is first and foremost. F...

So, you can't :point: (point) at a part of the brain and say "here, this is the memory" (perhaps memory is a diffuse network); nevertheless, there's s...

Try picturing stuff! I suffer from aphantasia too if that's what ails you.

I'll get back to you (if I can).

Brain localization of function. You're on point though! :up: Will get back to you if I think of anything interesting.

Of course, of course. We wouldn't want the whole world to find out the truth. Imagine what would happen? Some people can't be unplugged from The Matri...

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There are limits of course; exert enough pressure, for long enough, and minds collapse (zombies/automatons). It's happened before, so you're on target...

You can't tell a person (science) whose motto is prove me wrong (falsifiability) that she's wrong! That's a compliment and not an insult! :grin:

You've lost me.

:up: :up: So if I see people applauding and cheering as a toreador sinks his blades into a bull's sides, that's not schadenfreude-like? These expressi...

One upside of Draconian laws, if such even computes, is that people become (under duress) highly creative and put their wetware to work in earnest for...

Solar clocks (sundials)/Water clocks \rightarrow Analog clocks (pendulum/spring/quartz) \rightarrow Digital clocks \rightarrow ? Digital clocks are mo...

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A good question OP as far as I'm concerned. What bothers me is that being in the dark about other (unmentioned) alternatives has rather unsettling imp...

:sad: Oh well, let's not spoil the fun! This is the best the world has to offer by way of enjoyment! Schadenfreude is all we got, take it or leave it!...

Negate +\infty (God) and you get -\infty. No?

Many suns ago, I was quite impressed by all these reportedly "life-saving" transplant surgeries (my friend J, lucky chap, had a kidney transplant), un...

Chemistry (pharmacological products) and physics (machines) are big businesses. Biology, back in the day, was mostly a substitute for physics (slave-m...

Nothing is mine. :sad:

Don't mess with Fortuna! Don't even think of it! By the way, in epistemology, very recent developments going by a lecture, but not so if you take into...

I believe that's an oxymoron. Maybe not...I ain't sure.

Retirment age in USA: 62 - 66.7 years (Wikipedia) Joe Biden: 79 years old :chin:

It's always possible...

I'm no linguist, but it's time to make a statement à la Wigner (re the unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics in the natural sciences) and so I wil...

You're right, but then you're not.

We know more about hell than paradise if descriptions of both in religious texts is anything to go by. If someone knows more about Paris than London, ...

We'll all find out at one time or another, won't we? Perhaps...truths, assuming Laozi was into that to begin with, is not as effable as we supposed. N...

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No wonder it's a nightmare!

Suffering can't be denied! :chin: Why I wonder? What makes suffering some kind of marker for reality? Bitter truth! Sweet little lies. Hard facts, con...

Suppose time doesn't exist. If so simultaneity is meaningless. Contradiction: A proposition is true & false 1. In the same sense 2. At the same time (...

Is it true that when it comes to such advanced engineering as the JWST, given the extreme constraints at play, that backup systems aren't part of the ...

We only get one shot at this, eh?

Well, humanity is down with viraemia (resembles septicaemia). (A little) fever (global warming) is expected.

Ok, this thread's about Wittgenstein. I hope I'm right. If I am then, 1. Meaning is use! Question: Is anything that can be used (e.g. a hammer, a nail...

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:up: Suffering makes it real. Why?

I'll get back to you later (if I think of something). G'day!

Democracy provides the perfect conditions for pandemics. Covid-19 can be used as an index/indicator of how much freedom people (if democracy means fre...

All theatrical. One thing that puzzles me is why the universe is more a nightmare than a wet dream?

The Law of Noncontradiction only makes sense if contradictions are well-defined.

Movie theaters?

It's rather confusing, the relationship between time and logic. If S = Agent Smith is a cat, S & ~S is a contradiction only if simulateneity is meanin...