Agent Smith

Reflection symmetry, is a relation between two halves of an object. I don't think there's a need for any third party involvment. Here: A, B, D, E, T, ...

Here's the deal. From a video on youtube: We like to see measuring instruments as extensions of our senses. In a sense, like a poster once remarked, t...

Like lying to your friend about why you didn't show up at her b'day bash. There's perjury though, a legal equivalent. Also, gluttony ain't a crime but...

Is there a crime that isn't immoral?

The most important urgent problem facing the earth and all life on it :point: Humanity. Why? Has to be human nature! Which aspects of it? Others have ...

I don't think there's such a thing as a personality type and yet I've seen consistency and patterns in preferences (likes & dislikes) and behavior of ...

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Here's a way of looking at it that, to me, weakens if not completely destroys Lewis' argument of disproportionate punishment compared to the offense. ...

Indeed. From a book: The nexus between royalty, science, military, and traders (the Imperialist Quartet) is an old story. Go against science and you m...

:ok: Whatever floats your boat Miller. See ya!

Plurality: Nature (as in life) has to do a fine balancing act between heterogeneity (increase the odds against external threats) & homogeneity (decrea...

Infinite? :chin:

If I look at a human as I would a machine, it makes sense: There's only one specific permutation of component parts that makes for a healthy person; c...

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Agree! https://youtu.be/N2Ammu8a3hQ

Why not! Relativism. Old ideas deserve more attention than they get.

That's fine by me but what about the problem of (more) evil (than good)? You know the self-appointed moral police of society seem to be lopsided/asymm...

Why wouldn't I understand? How do you know I don't care?

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Simple? Why?

I wonder whether Descartes ever read Buddhist philosophy, specifically the part where it talks about anatta (no-self). The self, as per Buddhists, is ...

https://youtu.be/PIU9u8lc_mU The icescape wallpaper in the short clip above is not real. It's just an illusion that makes us happy. Could it be the sa...

For a mortal person, suicide means actually dying. For an immortal person, suicide is simply wanting to be mortal! When an immortal person commits sui...

For a mortal person, suicide means actually dying. For an immortal person, suicide is simply wanting to be mortal! When an immortal person commits sui...

The Anthropic principle The universe (its properties: physical constants & laws) is such that life is possible + actual. It's half-a-refutation of the...

Restricting myself to philosophy, I'd say for every thesis there's an antithesis; necessarily so since philosophy deals with unanswered questions (iss...

As much as I love science for its inherently logical structure, it's too objective with respect to value i.e. it can't parse (apparently) subjective w...

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Could we consider such people d-zombies (drug zombies)? P-zombies suddenly become a (scaring) possibility. I'm an s-zombie (suffering zombie).

Lucid tripping! A rare feat 180 Proof. It's nigh impossible for some if not all to be that aware when under the influence of a psychoactive/neurolepti...

Vide Anthropic Principle. There's only one world that's possible. All other worlds are impossible. There's only one world in which life is possible. A...

Update In a totally chaotic (patternless) universe, Boltzmann brains may form i.e. Life \nrightarrow Comprehension/Comprehensibility

Update Life \rightarrow Comprehension Life \nrightarrow Comprehensibility

The word "meaning", it seems, has different meanings. Comprehensibility (meaning-wise), as herein relevant, has to do with patterns. Meaning as purpos...

@"180 Proof" Clarification Not any ol' pattern is conducive to carbon-based life. Let's keep it simple and subscribe to carbon-chauvinism for the mome...

I mulled over this matter as best as I could and here's what came out from my that: Comprehension requires a thing (C) that can be comprehended and (O...

Please weigh in on Janus' post and my reply to him/her (above) - I like his/her argument. It's a variation of the Anthropic Principle.

1. If the universe didn't make sense (to us), we wouldn't exist. 2. We exist. Ergo, 3. The universe does make sense (to us). The Anthropic Principle (...

In what sense is logic subjective. What I've been told is identifying and avoiding biases (subjectivity) is a critical aspect of logic and rationality...

Thanks for the warning! It is a big decision, a matter of life and death actually, but then I hear there are ways to defuse the principle of explosion...

I see. So, would I be right in saying that our, especially a philosopher's, attempt to make sense of it all is, in a sense, misguided as it is not at ...

I dunno! You mean to say "everyone has their own logic" and that there's no such thing as universal logic. Are you conflating agenda with logic? Possi...

I get it wrong sometimes. :blush:

Well, I was hoping to cause the same amount of dismay in epistemologists as the problem of induction (vide Hume) caused scientists.

I don't quite get mirror symmetry. Positive and negative numbers are mirror images of each other and yet they do something that other reflection trans...

Lumen naturale: Light is a metaphor for clarity, reason, sound judgment, knowledge, truth, etc.

Why not? Is illogic always involuntary? :chin: That's a tautology (I think). Why?

1. I'm not really sure about that because the violation doesn't seem to carry over into the math i.e. the equations or whatever mathematical propositi...

How many ways can you slice a pizza? 1. With 1 cut, you get 2 slices 2. With 2 cuts, you get 4 slices 3. With 3 cuts, you get 7 slices 4. With 4 cuts,...