It's simply me trying to parse your claims given what I know. That's all. I'm gonna steer this discussion in a slightly different direction. The major...
I suppose we can deepen our understanding of the matter by asking two questions: 1. What is the negation of opposite? 2. What is the opposite of negat...
Good luck to the James Webb Telescope team. There's a lot of risk involved in this launch. What if it fails? How many billion dollars and man-hours do...
Way to go! It doesn't look like I'll be able to quit anytime soon. It's kinda an interesting life for people like me (not really role model material i...
:up: So, I have problems in life. I add one more to my list: drug addiction! Oddly, the drug dependence brings relief equivalent to having solved all ...
It isn't false but...this is what some would say...it also isn't the whole truth. Damn my optimism but I owe people the truth; that goes for everyone ...
We can change minds (can make them beautiful) but we can't change bodies (can't make them beautiful). We like beautiful bodies hence. Cosmetic surgery...
I've come to the conclusion that no, drugs don't improve thinking - insights & clarity aren't enhanced in any way at all. What do drugs do then? We've...
What's fascinating about reality requiring an observer is that there must've been at least ONE from the very beginning of reality. If said observer ha...
By the way, one proposed solution to the The Anthropic principle (why is the universe such that life (observers) is possible/actual?) is there's a mul...
Conservatives, old school, old fashioned: fossil minds? Reptilian parts of our brain? I wish I knew. What I want to know is whether bits of our prehis...
Begin-ninglessness isn't something that our current understanding of infinity (based on end-lessness) can handle/tackle. A begin-ning is baked into th...
A thing and its negative (not thing) divides the world neatly into two mutually exclusive parts. E.g. apple and non-apple. The apposite philosophical ...
For some radicalized person somewhere, COVID-19, something even worse, is just what the world needs for its overpopulation problem. Such people have b...
Not all the blame falls on the mirror then, huh? Suppose a line's on the line of symmetry (flush with the mirror's surface), this line, as per you, do...
I wonder how much of the empirical world you've personally experienced but though my world is small, I've seen some pretty weird stuff - not cognitive...
A few points worth considering. 1. I did a very brief study of the etymology of "infinity" and discovered the root word is "finis" which means end; un...
I have a(n) (extremely ridiculous) theory. A person suffering from refractive eye error when he looks at me holding up 1 finger, he actually sees 3 fi...
The notion of reality includes, in addition to (let's just say) the observed, a erceiver/observer. A similar situation is a story which I consider is ...
Spandrel! So I read this article about a certain mosquito-infested region in the US. Researchers compared mosquito-borne diseases over time and found ...
A few salient points. 1. Punctuation: Man, dog ate vs Man dog, ate. 2. Direction of writing assumption. Israelites killed Canaanites (left to right) C...
If there's a giant mirror (does the mirror have to be big) that can hold an image of the entire earth, in one detailed high resolution image, the mirr...
@"Metaphysician Undercover" Lateral inversion seems to be a feature of 1D, 2D and 3D objects. A 0 dimensional object, a point, doesn't (seem to) under...
Fascinating! I was an atheist a decade ago, now I'm an agnostic, veering towards theism. I used to think religion was bullshit but now I feel that was...
The Principle of Sufficient Reason (PSR): 1. If something exists, there's a reason why it exists. (Watch this corner) 2. If something is true, there's...
The situation is rather lamentable: The way the world's structutred, it's easy to f**k, not easy to deal with (take care of) what comes after (childre...
So egoism is idiocy. I prefer a system in which everyone is egoistic, the way it actually is I believe, and it all works out. I've seen people being c...
Yeah, true that for an illusion, there has to be something that experiences that illusion but that doesn't seem to imply that that something has to be...
What's the other word now? "Immaterial" or "inconsequential"? Anyway, that they (mathematicians/physicists) have a name for the phenomenon - lateral i...
What gets me excited is if math was invented. Did we invent/create the universe? The Western extroversion as opposed to the Eastern introversion is th...
That, I confess, is something I haven't studied carefully enough (lateral inversion it's called). However, reflection symmetry is defined in such a wa...
The way I see it, ends justifying means is intimately tied to the notion of the greater good, a utilitarian idea and we know Bentham-Mill were all abo...
I (think) I know what's going on. For a theist (Christian in our case), rejecting god 1. Is equivalent to spurning morality (you might as well call gr...
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