Agent Smith

Here's an argument: Imagine X wants to murder Y. Options for X: 1. X kills Y in the now. 2. X goes back in time and kills Y's parents 3. X causes/indu...

Yuval Noah Harari says as much. In his book Sapiens he says something that rings true: science and trade are fast buddies and scientists and business ...

Yep, much as I hate to admit it, you're right. Equality, in fact, is very, very human. We're trying to fix the world. We've made some boo-boos along t...

The eye can see itself then, can't it? What do you mean by the "act of seeing"? Do you mean that, running with the analaogy, even if the mind can obse...

I'm gonna stick my neck out and say that emotional "pie" hasn't, I fear, increased in size. Yuval Noah Harari, in his book Sapiens claims that the sec...

Thanks for the advice. I'm working on it but no real strategy. Doing things on the fly - a book here, a video there, some pseudo-thinking between them...

My own blinspots, I guess. I'll have to work on them. Ciao!

Assange's exposé led to foreign (Russian) interference in USA? Assange's plan, if he had one (seems unlikely), backfired. If an American kills an Amer...

Not necessarily. Philosophy is, in my humble opinion, the one subject that's always relevant, negatively, never irrelevant. In fact, we can have a phi...

I wasn't aware of that facet of the Assange leaks. Anyway, it doesn't look like you have a good argument. Should I keep my mouth shut about one tyrant...

I should've been clearer. My theory is that no methodology of knowledge, science or otherwise, can penetrate the fog of ignorance. Yes, our corpus of ...

I've always wanted to ask this to Boris Johnson, PM incumbent, UK. Isn't Boris a Russian name?

The observer can't observe itself. That's your argument. Isn't there something like a mirror for that?

:ok: Just threw it out there if you were interested in some way. Back to the main page: James Webb telescope. Isn't it rather convenient that scientis...

Aha! That's what's wrong with my format. I was wondering, do you see an possibility of?, the mind being simpler than the material (matter + energy)? T...

Hi there! I'm afraid you lost your post-a-picture privilege.

Big History, if I understand it correctly, makes sense. In and around the Big Bang all there were were particles and so chronicle them. With the passi...

When we talk about deserving, we're interested in how well a person is suited for a position, position understood in the broadest sense possible. For ...

We're all God's children: If Jesus' suffering/death meant zilch, the same goes for us. If, on the other hand, Jesus' trials and tribulations had a pur...

Big History

Assange did something noble. Look where he landed up. Too, where are the mass protests, the demonstrations demanding his freedom? Something's off, don...

These aspects of the problem seem irrelevant. The thing is Jesus was going to end up on a wooden cross somewhere in the desert after being tortured. Y...

What stands out is that the Christian God isn't a hypocrite. Of course being a God, ultimately meant that the Jesus' suffering doesn't carry the same ...

:up: Good to know we've got someone so well-read in our neck of the woods.

Assange played with :fire: He got burnt. That's all. https://youtu.be/9hoSF_oY8Jw

Bravo! Excellent point! I just wonder though how much of the (old) data in our genes have been overwritten/modified to such an extent that they're com...

I'm going out on a limb and say that standardized education as it is now can be handled with ease by an ordinary laptop/PC. All you need to do is lear...

A very powerful Christian argument against abortion: Jesus Christ Jesus was destined to suffer horribly - publicly humiliated, tortured and crucified,...

The Alexander Fleming (father of antibiotics) "technique" What you gotta do is "accidentally" contaminate a viral (Covid-19) culture with bacteria/fun...

People in America are fed up with something. Democracy? It does get a bit tedious after some time.

I don't think equality is natural; au contraire, inequality is more the norm than the exception in the world. However, human inequality makes zero sen...

As far as I can tell, objective idealism is the belief that the universe is both the perceived and the perceiver (there's no issue with the law of ide...

To provide some context:

1. What are your national goals? 2. What are your international goals? 3. Do you have a plan?

:ok: :up:

To those who agree with the OP, me inclusive, try this on for size: The HARD problem of consciousness

I watched a short clip where this woman tells Elon Musk how his Mars colonization plan is interplanetary (duh!) but not international (only US enginee...

Thank you for the question OP. Peace & calm is to the real world (chaotic) as a flight simulator is to actually piloting a plane loaded wth people. I ...

Astronomers are cosmic historians. I wonder if our garden variety historians too, with the help of scientists of course, build some kind "telescope" t...

To be enlightened is to be free from suffering but life is suffering (one of the Noble Truths) and so...

Both the sage and the fool talk out of their bunghole. The difference is the sage knows that but the fool doesn't.

Just another way of asking Who am I?

The other side of the coin :point: What is Change?

Let's give the nonphysicalist what they want. Yes, there is such a thing as qualia. They contend that proves physicalism can't explain consciousness. ...

From the Wikipedia entries, it looks like we have accumulated a considerable amount of knowledge/information on stupidity. I'm sure other encyclopedia...

Answer: Now we know!

Quantum Entanglement. Instantaneous communication occurs between entangled particles. Nothing physical can do that! Vide Albert Einstein (speed of lig...

Is it possible that it's not the measurement of one of a pair of entangled particle that causes the other to behave in a very specific way? In other w...

A simple but very compelling argument for why we should be cautious of, even dread, consistency: If we are to be consistent, since we're perfectly at ...