Agent Smith

Opposite is closed i.e. it specifically identifies another thing e.g. the opposite of hot is cold. Opposites are knowledge-apt i.e. I can construct kn...

The JWST's secondary mission is to look for habitable planets. I wonder how that works. Spectroscopic atmospheric signatures (O_2, H_2O) seem the easy...

Theists ignore the spatial dimension although they seem concerned about time. In other words, God's location doesn't seem to figure in theistic argume...

:chin: While philosophers argue about free will, the legal system and the legislature are busy laying down laws, really restrictions on our free will,...

Google Definitions etc. /?t?s?t?r?/ adverb used at the end of a list to indicate that further, similar items are included. "protect seedling from dama...

Here's another, albeit mathematical, way of experiencing \infty: Live! If one lives for even just 5 minites, \infty moments from t = 0 to t = 5 mins w...

Overpopulation paradox: Increase in numbers indicate there's more food to go around. However, the demographic (poor folks) that's registering highest ...

Once that word pops up in a offices (government/private), everyone takes a moment to (re)assess their work/performance. I've seen remarkable changes i...

Science wouldn't be wrong per se. It could restrict its applicability to the physical side of reality. The nonphysical would require its very own cout...

I've noticed something quite wondrous about social constructs like governments (democracies, autocracies, whathaveyou). They operate at different time...

I had an epiphany (a Buddhist one): More people is a positive development: sinners have been cleansed of their bad karma and now, with enough merit po...

I realized a job is kinda like a relationship. It takes a whole lot of blood, sweat, and tears (hyperbole) to keep the flame of desire burning. One ha...

I've never encountered fate; all my information on this mysterious force, fate, is second-hand. I can imagine though: I'm sitting in the airport loung...

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Perfect Sphere! https://youtu.be/ZMByI4s-D-Y

Antiscience: The Tenth Man Rule! What you believe is light is actually darkness!

To live, it seem, we need to straddle both worlds, that of fact and fiction. Deconstruct (is that the right word?) the worldview of successful people ...

This caught my eye. It has very interesting implications on the East-West dichotomy. Mechanizing thought, reducing thinking to a calculus has largely ...

Everything has its pluses and minuses. To lower the bar for goodness would mean a deluge of false positives. To raise the bar for the same would resul...

Moral character of Christians. Finite offense, infinite punishment: Offense << Punishment The law is usually such that Offense > punishment except in ...

Where I work, no one is considered indispensable. There's a long queue of people willing and able to fill my and my colleagues' shoes. No one precious...

The OP's main intention is to see if there's such a thing as nonmathematica infinity. Infinity, as far as I can tell, is an exclusively mathematical o...

Reminds me of Avalokite?vara, the thousand-armed bodhisattva who, according to some Buddhist traditions, vowed to lend a helping hand to all sentient ...

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Meno's point is enquiry implies you must know (something) about what you're enquiring about - a starting point so to speak - but that's what you don't...

I wouldn't be so certain about that. As I said, the two (good & beauty) have been wedded together ab antiquo. Representations of gods/goddesses have a...

:up: I couldn't parse that so I left it out. You explain it well. I edited my post to accommodate your point. Memory, it seems, needs to be included i...

Truth 1. Correspondence. 2. Coherence. 3. Convenience.

I see. :up: The problem still remains though. Cookies = Original, impressive, brainwork. You get an A either way. Professors aren't able to tell the d...

Meno's paradox: Either I know what I'm enquiring about OR I don't know what I'm enquiring about. If I know what I'm enquiring about, there's no need t...

I suppose my way of looking at the issue (life, suffering) is more because of a lack of alternatives than due to solid reasons to back it up. After be...

I have nothing more to say (for now). I'll get back to you later.

It seems, as always, mine is a case of one-sided love. Math, for some reason, refuses to let me unravel its secrets. Cosmic censorship or I'm just pla...

Have you seen gods, the good ones and even the bad ones, ever portrayed in paintings, sculptures, etc., as ugly/grotesque? To behold beauty is to catc...

Off the top of my head, infinitesimals. Yep, the formalism is necessary to ground what started off as an intuition, in logic; a necessity no doubt; af...

I'm currently reading a book on mathematical philosophy. I'm no good at math although I'm fascinated by the subject. I noticed that math, its various ...

You should edit Wikipedia. We need Wikipedia and Wikipedia needs you i.e. we need you! No offense intended AgentTangarine. I don't think your're guilt...

Do you suppose you could help me out here. I'm trying to bring some precision to these concepts and the only discipline I know that's known for that i...

I don't know how far this is true but I was told that professors give an A grade in return for sexual favors. It's illegal but that doesn't stop eithe...

By the way, fun fact: The JWST's design borrows from the ancient Japanese art of origami (paper folding).

Russell's teapot. If we're asked to prove a negative, the problem is we will have to sometimes try and prove that which is essentially unfalsifiable.

@"180 Proof" @"Wayfarer" The JWST reminds me of Russell's teapot!

There's a lot of work that needs to be done. The devil is in the details. My intention is simply to open up a new branch of enquiry, a much needed one...

The point is a hedonic measure for the worth of a life may not do justice to the full richness that is life. On the face of it, that's bollocks of cou...

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Yep! It would be fascinating to find out how dinosaurs might've left their mark on our minds; even more marvelous would be if we have a reptilian mind...

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Don't celebrate too early! I'm only gonna stop worrying after NASA releases the first "pictures", complete with an analysis.

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Is the game worth the candle? Suffering, in some circles, is seen in a positive light. Religions usually make a big deal of, for instance, austerity a...