How? All ELEs boil down to famine-conditions; flight capability (enhanced mobility) would be a big asset, would mean the difference between life ans d...
It just dawned on me that the first port of call here is to be able to tell the difference between art and non-art; once that's under our belt, we can...
One reason for the rich-poor gap, the income divide, is that we're paying for the wrong things. Why do we give to charity? Why are CEOs paid huge sala...
According to Wikipedia, the last mass extinctiom (K-Pg event) completely wiped out, pay attention, only non-avian dinosaurs. Does this mean that one (...
What I wanna know is when's the next ice age due? Can we hope for some kind of equilibrium between an ice age and global warming? Can we fine-tune glo...
Everything and anything can be used! Taking an electric blanket on an expedition to the Sahara will raise eyebrows. Taking an ice-making machine to th...
:clap: How about an artist who realizes this simple fact - panta rhea - and creates an artwork that also changes with the times? It's always art becau...
Desperate times call for desperate measures! I prefer the proportio divina to Aristotelian golden mean. It seems to be the most logical choice given h...
User Illusion (consciousness) The way I see it Dennett's position is what we experience as consciousness is processed data: for instance, light data i...
It's odd that, on occasion, what starts off as bad (for something) ends up being good (for that something) - recall Banksy's artwork that went through...
I wasn't talking about intuition alone. It's as clear as day that the universe makes sense in a rigorously logical sense - there are laws, mathematica...
Suppose, arguendo, the mind = brain. I'm now thinking about my mind. When I do, I don't see my brain. In other words my mind doesn't see itself as it ...
Isn't killing one person to save many in the grey area of ethics? These are the kinds of situations the concept of goodish (badish being somewhat of a...
You misunderstand me. It is simplicity itself. I don't know why it fails to make the right impression with you. If including a certain object (violenc...
Ethics is absolute and universal in my opinion. Thou shalt not kill means thou shalt not kill, plain and simple. Ethical injunctions are binding to al...
My intention, if it could be considered that, is to try my best to leave the notion of good, in its original form (absolute, clear, and beyond the clu...
:up: Cognitive dissonance: To hold beliefs that are mutually contradictory accompanied by stress and the aching desire to resolve the contradiction(s)...
:chin: The JWST is a time machine - we're looking into the past of the cosmos, way back to the earliest galactic/stellar nurseries (the first light in...
Which would you prefer? 1. To save your friend without violence or 2. To save your friend with violence ? There's a difference there and, for me, it n...
Indeed, these are amazing feats of engineering/science. I was hoping we could build a JWST for our mind too. Setting aside the fact that we haven't ev...
The universe, if a man, is a principled man. It's laws are just what you'd expect of something well-designed (watchmaker analogy). Nothing in the univ...
The universe, curiously, behaves intelligently, (almost) as if it were alive and...thinking...conscious...like us. The universe has no brain (or so I'...
Does the universe bear the seal/the touch of humankind? Every culture leaves its own unique signature on the things that it does - a wheel is a wheel ...
Math is knowledge. Is math discovered or invented? If math is discovered (knowledge), the B (belief) in the JTB definition of knowledge is an error. I...
Good question OP. What is real? Individual, single person hallucinations (all modalities): Purely subjective (no corroboration at all, not even a chil...
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