Agent Smith

One of me all-time favorite ideas is The Principle of Sufficient Reason, abbreviated as the PSR. It asserts ... 1. If x exists, there's a suffucient e...

I see. So, if I may ask, what's the German model? Are we talking about the bureaucracy or education here? Did you know America is #1 in tertiary educa...

We should put the above short, sweet, & pithy paragraph in a time capsule - a message for our children on what's important in life (how to "live toget...

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Really? I was dead sure you'd say yes to that.

@"Shawn" Surveys, we need surveys i.e. data is a sine qua non if we 're to make inferences. 180 Proof has evidence that supports the existence of some...

Am I right to say that science has room for religion, but the converse is false? In other words, the animosity/antagonism is one-sided. Too, the OP do...

So, I'm not sure who you have a beef with - the bureaucracy or politicians? The question Hannah Arendt asked is critical to the plot of course. I'd sa...

That hurt! I'm not a professional philosopher, but that hurt! I'd say to those scientists who hold a dim view of philosophy (there a quite a number of...

I see. Exploring science is going to go a long way towards settling the matter; if not, it'll explain the situation we're in. Gracias for the clarific...

Will and choice to be delinked, si! Causation, again si! As for Plato's cave, really big cave if you ask me! After 2.5k years of dedicated effort, we'...

An excellent question OP. We're all somebody as in each one of us is unique - there's a something that makes me me and not you or somebody else and th...

Now that I've had the time to consider your question properly, I'd say it's a profound question. Parmenides, I was told, claimed that if one even talk...

The arguments for climate change aren't watertight - that's the problem. Also, you might wanna review the claim scientifically. In other words, climat...

I don't know much about education. I don't have the relevant qualification. I remember, rather vaguely, attending classes in high school and then a fe...

P(H/E) = \frac{P(E/H) \times P(H)}{P(E)}

Climate change. What's the latest? COP26 was a hot topic around 6 moons ago ... the fire fizzled out in a about a week. If climate change is true and ...

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Glucose + O2 \to Thoughts + CO2 + H2O

Also related may be forgetfulness, amnesia, etc. associated with a constellation of psychiatric illnesses.

It would be interesting to do a lexical analysis of writing - which groups prefer which words to express what is essentially, in Buddhist terms, dukkh...

Aah! Gracias for the clarification. Pandeism has residual elements of religion while pantheism doesn't. The latter is basically naturalism, but viewed...

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I really haven't had the time to develop a nuanced view of the sciences and it shows. However, as far as I can tell there's a fundamental difference b...

Good definition of evil and the linked post, another well-considered position. Is it advisable to explain evil?

:up: So it's simple. 1. God is imaginary, let's stick to the facts. 2. God is harmful. Let's not go down that road. Pandeism fits in your worldview. Y...

A list of relevant words/word phrases: Pain, unhappy, sad, sorrow, anguish, agony, grief, loss, glum, gloom, doom, excruciate, torment, angst, the blu...

Mushin no shin Empty yer mind ... :party:

Do you really believe that theism is false (atheism)? Do you also think that having a god would be a bad thing (antitheism)? Questions that have been ...

As usual, a superb post. You never disappoint do you? @"Benj96" seems to be suggesting, not quite the opposite, but nearly so (of what you, so wisely,...

Ok. It makes sense alright and I have a feeling you'll find many takers with regard to self-organization. It also seems to square, quite perfectly, wi...

I haven't given the matter enough thought mon ami. All I can say is, it's not at all clear to me why opposites would be needed to prop each other to e...

You should ask @"180 Proof". I'm aware that some people think light doesn't make any sense without dark.

I don't see anything theistic in the OP.

I would ... according to 180 Proof.

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Again, on target OP! You've done your homework and it shows. Transactions, that's all there was/is/will be to life. How disheartening it is, oui mon a...

What would I do if I were God? @"180 Proof"'s answer is the best!

Your theory doesn't require minds then - information is self-sufficient and yet ... Did you read Gnomon's latest post (right above yours)? I sympathiz...

Interesting argument.

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Something like that, si! Will is then linked to choice and as you say, we can drive a wedge between the two. What does the world look like now?

Weirdly, yeah! I had something else in mind but I seem to have forgotten what it was.

:up: Science! Yep, that's how it works, but no scientific hypothesis is true is it? Does that mean anything? What they are is not false until, of cour...

What do you make of the QM claim that consciousness is vital to physical processes e.g. in the double slit experiment?

The Fibonacci sequence 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, ... The Negative Fibonacci sequence 4, 6, 7, 9 10, 11, 12, 14, 15, ... Could we use this to g...

Modus ponense (IF x THEN y/x//y) .