Agent Smith

Which is never! @"schopenhauer1" is correct when he points out life is game invented by a psychopath who creates people like us to play it whether we ...

Is "feel" the keyword? Most perceptive if it is!

Magnifique! On point mon ami, on point! Veganism is the half-open flower of morality. We still have a long way to go, oui monsieur?

I haven't updated my neuorology files since 2004! Can't afford it any more. So I'll take your word for it although some references would be a big help...

The electron cloud (?) represents, if anything, our ignorance. A particle can't be in two places at the same time, period! When someone's lost, his/he...

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The demand-available problem. Tom: Why do you kill animals? Dick (butcher): Because Harry eats meat (meat demand). John: Why do you eat meat? Harry (n...

In our endeavor to understand death scientifically, NDEs are the next best thing to actually crossing the river Styx! I recommend more research on thi...

Nice! Potential energy is simply stored energy we can tap. The word "potential" isn't to be understood philosophically, as antipodal to actual (vide A...

Nihilism seems inevitable given the realization that despite what we say about ourselves, we're animals at heart, oui monsieur? We're beasts with post...

What if the purpose (meaning) of life is to be purposeless (meaningless)? :snicker:

In my humble opinion, if reason is brushed aside and that is exactly what Christianity does, fidei being its sole truth-bearer, there really is no poi...

Not necessarily.

Merci beaucoup mon ami! We have work to do monsieur, the two of us. Consider me your cheerleader. :cool:

Ok, but what about chemical energy, allegedly resides in the bonds between atoms?

:zip: https://youtu.be/wENehOU1jTA

Chaoskampf!

A rock perched on a ledge 300 ft above the valley can do something - kill/maim/destroy/etc. "By virtue of what?" asked the scientist.

Great question Jack! Apart from not wanting to give people nightmares (I'm Quasimodo), I haven't the slightest clue why I selected that particular pic...

Well, as crazy as this sounds, we could short circuit the brain; you know, use your brain spinal cord! :chin:

Sic infit ... Experiment, experiment, experiment! You only live once! Right guys & gals?

Me two cents ... As per my high school physics sutra, energy is the capacity to do work. No energy, no work; explains why we have to eat almost contin...

What are your views on reflex (action)? There's more to simple reflexes than meets the eye, si señor/señorita?

Isn't there a quote that goes before I'm a Palestenian or an Israeli, I'm human? Run with that and let the magic happen! :cool:

We havta ponder all the negative aspects of life; it's a necessity if we're into selling life tickets (making babies). Explore all angles, every which...

I'll take first bite! Good call OP! "Carnism & basic human rights just don't go together" ... said the girl to her exasperated boyfriend.

The answer to the OP's query would depend on what kinda a cognitive abilites are required for science and where they're localized in the brain. Fun fa...

It doesn't look like merit-based anything is going to work, at all, right @"180 Proof"? Because we all know ... https://youtu.be/R4pRe8ul7KQ :chin:

Yes, but vide infra, Tom Storm's comment.

Rogue AI? A lion that's (only) a hallucination can't kill you or can it?

Possible ...

Now we're on the same page mon ami!

Locked in? Synced? Not impossible. Therein lies the rub, si señor/señorita? Like you said, in another thread, we have to demonstrate that it's impossi...

Subjective Identity is not the same as Objective Identity. Hence, in my humble opinion, sancta trinitas unus deus. :cool:

Idealism is true ... to an extent! You really don't want to doubt the external reality of a a 3-ton boulder rolling down the hill, straight at you. Th...

Physics, I feel, needs to make existential claims when hypothesizing, the stock-in-trade of the subject, and by doing so strays into philosophical ter...

I thought we're just pawns in the game. :chin:

Ati sundar (most beautiful) mon ami, ati sundar. Like I once said, @"Jack Cummins", human history seems to be about the misses, not the hits.

I don't quite see how it's a science or religion situation?

Ok. We can do better.

:lol:

The "things" worth owning cannot be owned! :rofl:

We (humans) do stand out from the rest of nature! We're not satisfied with how nature works (dukkha) and much of our literature and religions, beginni...

Is p is true IFF p the simplest way of expressing the correspondence theory of truth?

:up:

If (conceptual) confusions could be sorted out, they would've been by now - philosophers have been at it, day in day out, for now 2.5k years - and sin...

You took the words right out of my mouth mon ami! There really was no pre-scientific epoch in human history unless science isn't really science.

:lol: It's not over until the fat lady sings, oui mon ami? No fair! Are these the best of times? Are we all lucky folks? As an example, slavery is in ...

We must imagine Sisyphus happy!

Just curious, is there a poem about poems?