Agent Smith

Every time you hold a tennis ball in yer hand, you're feeling its mass (0.056 kg) × acceleration due to gravity (9.8 ms-2) = weight (0.56 N), which is...

Danke for the clarification. I made the same mistake ... twice (I have another thread on modal realism, it's equally hopeless).

Wonderful! What I find interesting is you removed truth from the equation. That's a grandmaster move in me book mon ami. What is the criterion for tru...

I get the gist of your Enformationism and I for one would gladly subscribe to your channel and I believe I am. @"180 Proof", for my money, has one gri...

You know the so-called hard problem of consciousness, as I understand it, boils down to the inability of scientific methods/instruments to access, a n...

I watched the trilogy, only twice though; still haven't figured out how it all hangs together.

Nyet, just a follow up comment to yours. Hi, long time no see. What makes numbers more tangible than ideas like god, souls? Also, you already know tha...

Gracias. You're right. Apologies, I believe I posted in haste (makes waste). Yes Leibniz has been credited as the first to propose possible worlds; De...

Gracias for the comment. I concede yer point. Excepting contradictions, am I correct in saying any other kind of proposition is true ... in some possi...

I will if possible. Currently I'm involved in another more earthly project. Danke.

I'd have no choice, based on how possible worlds are defined.

Gödel's theorems? Math is axiomatic, oui?

Something like that, yes. Good point. That statement is self-contradictory. Also, sheep could have wings (it's possible) i.e. there has to be at least...

I've rediscovered an old philosophical technique, it's called List Method. It's illustrated below: 1. Definitely exists: The Eiffel tower, The Uluru r...

Lovely!

Ok. It's just that after the worldwide trans phenomenon, the ability of straight peeps to tell man from women has been brought into question. The onus...

So by religion you mean something else. Pray tell what that is.

@"180 Proof" is of the view that religion is puerile (childish) - some of us then, I presume, never outgrow our childhood (imaginary) friend aka god. ...

This just a hunch but since having a male/female body isn't what a man/woman is (as per trans folks), the obvious next step in solving the mystery is ...

@"Banno", would you be so kind as to leave a comment. I have a feeling you'll take this discussion forward.

On the face of it, you're flip-flopping between two definitions of man/woman. It's an interesting fallacy you commit, there should be a name for it (i...

:up: I :pray: for god.

What is it exactly, do you suppose, that we want from God? We pray ... for what?

I was thinkin' the same thing, but not exactly in a Nietzschean sense. He did declare God is dead and I suppose we could interpret it in the way you'v...

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What draws people to religion? Is it just a verbal pledge of a safety net to catch a believer's fall? Religions tend to be factually barren and yet, p...

God made us (re Christianity) in His image. I don't what's the deal with Hinduism - Vishnu took, as per vedic sources, the form of fish and a boar, an...

:lol: Well, for the sake of all standup comedians out there, I hope so! Danke! It's taking shape, most definitely! :up:

@"Cuthbert", @"jgill" What do you know of subjective probability? We use words like "likely", "unlikely" and I've been trying to map those words onto ...

The Drake Equation N = R_* \cdot f_p \cdot n_e \cdot f_l \cdot f_i \cdot f_c \cdot L N = number of civilizations in our galaxy we could come into cont...

The best female trait (as a man) - they can be as bad or even worse than men. Just saw a probably bogus video of a woman yakuza boss in an airport. :f...

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After what scientists say is roughly a 10100 years, the average temperature of our universe will be a but a few points above -273o K.

That's actually quite clever. I suggest you examine justification more closely.

How different is JMAOJB from JTB?

Don't the (scriptural) inconsistencies prove my point?

Science, as some sci-fi novelists have theorized, is ultimately going to make religion true by ... creating (AGI) God. So this success science has mad...

Which is to say nonvegetarianism doesn't make sense and that given how scripture defines God, He is completely within his rights to eat us.

Despite no evidence people believe in god(s). Despite so much evidence scientists, not anyone else, doubt their very own painstakingly developed hypot...

The OP says I know ... How come, especially when he ends with ... ?

:chin: You have a point. Hence, thus, therefore, ergo, as you were, soldier!

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Bartricks' noise is our signal, Don't you get it? :rofl:

Interesting. Care to expand on that.

Great! Report what progress we've made.

I enjoy this stuff, yeah! However, there's always a however, eh?

Bartricks says really interesting stuff. He cuts through the noise to get at the signal. I only hope there's a signal waiting out there for him. Good ...

Something like that ... yes. As some other posters have already highlighted, progress is subjective and/or illusory (perhaps they both mean the same t...

Well, as far as I can tell, so I was told, we're not fully self-aware (there's stuff going on in our brains, like for example when I'm writing this po...