Agent Smith

The problem with climate action is that if the appropriate steps were taken, the result would be a global economic meltdown. The aftermath of this :po...

Ad nauseam seems, is rather, related or is the same as ad infinitum. Next time you're intoxicated by alcohol and feel the irresistable urge to hurl, y...

What I said is probably not the whole truth.

For people: Privacy For governments: Transparency :brow: :chin:

I don't think I can come up with the right answer to that question. It's like asking how is water bad for plants? :chin:

Yes, I got to that part. For better or worse, from a secondary source. A little bit of both, I have to confess. Aristotle is the seed crystal in a man...

@"tim wood" Please bear with me. I'm trying to figure something out. Question: 1. Is the golden mean of morality (good & evil) a) All good, no evil or...

You're conflating two distinct ideas: excess good and good. Understandable. I did too. I have more to say, if you're interested.

I'm afraid I can contribute nothing more to the discussion. Adios!

:grin: Gotcha!

Not convinced, sorry! You get points for trying though.

:ok: I never said anything that would imply I was comparing apples to oranges. The other, more pressing matter, is that you're under the impression th...

It's one of the simplest ideas in circulation. Every culture/civilization has its own version of it. Why would you say I don't know what it says? How ...

I don't think I said that. Was it implied?

I see no difference between (AB)×C and A×B×C and (A×B)×C. :chin:

Ex nihilo nihil fit. Where's your argument?

:up: An noble objective, no doubt but what's our strategy, economically?

I haven't, unfortunately. Yes, that's what I was getting at.

C'mon! Heaven: Too much happiness. (too cold) Hell: Too much pain (too hot) Earth: Just right! (pleasant) Goldilocks zone? Epicurus fails to notice th...

What keeps me up at night is a simple fact: our minds and our tools (e.g. logic & math) seem capable of at most binary operations. As an example consi...

Please ignore the previous reply. I was in a hurry and didn't read your post carefully enough. My sincerest apologies. To my knowledge, phenomenology ...

:grin: Jokes aside, what's wrong with my argument? Isn't 0 evil and \infty good, to put it mildly, a "little" too much? Too much of a good thing (Goog...

The Golden Mean Solution to the Epicurean Riddle Me: Wouldn't you agree that a world with 0 evil and \infty good is an extreme? Epicurus: Indeed it wo...

Walking in different ways, yes. Kama Sutra-like, different sex positions; no, as luck would have it, I'm not an expert on sex although I do enjoy an o...

And you're the last word on all such matters. :up:

I'm waiting patiently...bitten-off-all-my-nails patiently.

Just curious, what is the "big picture"?

Why split hairs when you don't need to to understand the point? Anyway, corrections made.

Wordplay. People say the darndest things these days.

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Enforcement of morality is the wrong way to look at it. If history proves anything, we're a band of miscreants - those same gangs of juvenile delinque...

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:up: I hadn't thought of it that way. A lesson learned. Thanks.

It should be obvious to someone as smart as yourself. I'm serious, not kiddin' at all.

Have you ever seen one idea collide with another in such a way that momentum was conserved? The mind world has its own thing going on, quite distinct ...

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Not all 3 divine attributes are equal in significance with respect to how essential each is to divinity/godliness. Power (potency) and knowledge (scie...

"More real reality" One would need to analyze what it is that makes something real. Does it come on some kind of a scale with a dial which we can twis...

I'm gonna havta agree with you (for the time being). :up:

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https://youtu.be/lobxxegPfaI

Phenomenology is as legit an approach as any other that describes itself as objective. You don't consult a physicist on matters of personal relationsh...

Wigner's friend! I remember that!

@"Wayfarer" Like I shared with you once before, to be conscious, broadly speaking, is to have a unique (subjective) point of view. This is either an e...

I would've liked it to have been the other way round! Die and eat shit! :rofl: A missing comma?

I think it's become a habit, a not so helpful one. How very unfortunate. Reminds me of the drunkard's search and Maslow's hammer. The good news, it is...

Good advice but then philosophers can't afford to be finicky, right?

As per you, Digestion = Cogitation Products of digestion (nutrients) = Products of cogitation (thoughts) My thoughts can be about thoughts. Check. Can...

:up: I'll check it out when I have the time to do so.