Contradictions, I was told, were inconceivable. I tried it and, as far as I'm concerned, that statement obtains. Try and imagine a square circle in Eu...
This is clearly a woman's problem. She wants to dress up, wear makeup to attract Mr. Right but then there's the risk of attracting the wrong kind of a...
Excelente! Pleasure is suffering. :chin: I suppose that's in terms of how powerful it can be as a distraction, a honey trap in a manner of speaking. M...
Is there any link between Stupidity and Sensawunda? . Definition of "wonder" (vide Google): A feeling of amazement and admiration, caused by something...
Death, from a certain, Camusian point of view, seems to the solution rather than the problem. Do you wanna be trapped in Sisyphusean samsara (round an...
It isn't impossible but do note that what applies to one human applies to all (gonna get into trouble for this) unless there are gods (omnipotent) hid...
What if the sancta trinitas (unus Deus) is meant to open the door to, à la non-Euclidean geometry, non-classical logic where the law of identity is no...
I suppose this thread isn't the right one to post this (vide infra) in but since it's a live thread, let me do so: 1. Luck. Basically inexplicable eve...
Update Tom Storm has stated something very important by proferring a "truth value" over & above the classical Aristotelian true and false viz. unknown...
But why? Given proposition p, p is either 1. True or 2. False For me to know about p, I need 3. Proof/justification for p Suppose I looked thoroughly ...
Main quest: If it's impossible to prove the proposition p is true , what truth value do we assign that proposition, p? Side quest: Why can't, rather s...
What an interesting coincidence. I was just thinking about poverty and how the poor, in terms of possessions (assets, money, and so on), are like monk...
Good responses! This doesn't make sense to me. What's a no choice scenario then? :chin: Magnifique! Being able to, in a sense, predict the future only...
Yes but that there is no reason to think p exists isn't a reason to think p does not exist. That's how things stand as of now I'm told. As one poster ...
Aether was born in the René Descartes mind, a work of genius no doubt, but...according to a lecture series I'm watching, this rather innocuous looking...
How about if we dive into details. P-zombies are about consciousness but that's not the whole story is it? We have two tiers of consciousness: 1. Exte...
Danke schön! :up: Food for thought: Imagine a lens L and a screen behind it. The lens focuses the world's (W) image (I) on the screen. Now take a mirr...
Most telescopes have been visible spectrum analyzers for a long time i.e. they were basically extensions of our eyes. The James Webb telescope is diff...
I just skimmed through the Wikipedia page on the James Webb telescope and what caught my eye is that it's a reflecting telescope (uses mirrors instead...
Apologies for the irrelevance then. Did you know that the Big Bang is deduced mathematically? Some assumptions as to the rate of change of cosmic expa...
All I'm saying is that conspiracy theorists, including but not limited to anti-vaxxers, shouldn't be dismissed as loonies/morons out of hand. Their so...
It has to be no? To be conscious is to have a unique take on the world. If one, like scientists do, claims that, for the sake of objectivity, that "un...
1. What does anyone here think of the link between Assange & Conspiracy theories? There's lotsa ammo in the warehouse, sir! 2. Assange & Anti-vaxxers?...
I read the article. It's meant for people with a higher IQ than mine. Anyway... 1. There's subjectivity we need to take into account because, for some...
No takers, eh? No prizes for guessin' why, it's a hairy problem. A few salient points to consider: 1. If not determinism, then what? Randomness, an ea...
I don't quite get the notion of emergence. To me it's like saying a child dependent on his parents is not fully a person or like thinking light is mat...
The Book is occupies the region between hypothetical & actual. Do we just have to figure everything out and compile the treatise or do we read off pro...
Compartmentalization (I'm not sure if there's a better concept) vs. Cognitive dissonance. I love you but please go through the prenuptial agreement. C...
A society is itself as good as the individuals it's composed of, no? It doesn't seem possible to look at society as distinct from its members, especia...
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