Syat, I quite like the idea of evolutionary humanism. Despite the fact that Yuval Noah Harari (Israeli historian who penned the sutra titled Sapiens) ...
Syat, subjective opinions tend to cancel each other out while objective facts tend to last, quite literally forever. Dialectics is the setting in whic...
Sy?d ... Corporations trump the state (business lobbies). The state trumps the church (separation of church & state). The church trumps corporations (...
Sy?d, if governments can play around with taxes to win votes, it means taxes have no logic to them. I would recommend that taxes be well-reasoned to, ...
Taxes, they say, are required to run the government, for upkeep of basic services, to finance (new) projects that benefit the community, you get the i...
Sy?d, post-Agrippa('s trilemma) life has been tough for dogmatists. The quest to find a firm foundation for knowledge, the epistemic bedrock as it wer...
:rofl: Sy?d, on point! Nevertheless, we're unable to distinguish real vs. unreal which is, to the coder/programmer behind the sim, a compliment, oui m...
Sy?d, on point! My view on the matter was based on anecdotal evidence, valid for only one individual, viz. the experiencer. I guess one's experiences ...
As the apocryphal narrative goes, Isaac Newton made two separate doors, one for momma cat and one for her kittens. We should, nay, we havta, do that, ...
Sy?d ... Foreknowledge, how does that work? Does it necessarily imply determinism i.e. negate free will? Can I predict what a person x will do in a gi...
Sy?d ... Good call OP. You don't really blame a computer, call it out, for storing, processing, for instance, Nazi ideology. We humans are, to some de...
As per a(n) Indian/Sri Lankan lady who did research on what matters to people (search TED talks), 1. Love 2. Health 3. Happiness (in no particular ord...
Sy?d, all this Sturm und Drang about QM reminds me of a problem faced by string theorists - there are multiple models that are all acceptable and ther...
Sy?d, suffering is to mind as bath is to body (re self-mortification, flagellation, asceticism, etc.). Sy?d, suffering is linked to existential threat...
Sy?d, fools & geniuses are indistinguishable which kinda means that he who promotes worship and he who opposes worship are both both (wise fool), oui ...
I was thinkin' more along the lines of ODDS is GODS. Miracles are highly improbable, not impossible (re the problem of induction), events and they're ...
There's a lot of ideas floating around in the ideaverse to start a discussion on. I for one will grab every opportunity to participate in your threads...
That would be a translation issue, oui monsieur? They just used different words to convey the meaning snow is white. Anyway, as I said in my last post...
Perhaps, deep down in our subconscious, we all know what's gonna happen and all these attempts to forestall the inevitable is a mere formality we just...
All I can say is there's a paradox: We all care for our children, willing to even lay down our lives for them and yet, we're least bothered about huma...
Well, ignoring romance scams perpetrated by young women on old but rich men + those Russian girls on Tik Tok saying all they're looking for in a man i...
@"Jack Cummins" :lol: I'm sure you've heard of (hyperbolic) skepticism. Do we really know any truths? You might wanna refresh your memory on the the D...
Excessive Thinking produces the same effect as a Zen Koan and Zen Koans are supposedly good for one's mental and, surprise, surprise, physical health ...
I would have to defer to your good judgment on this one! It looks like God is the square peg in the round hole of reality - just won't fit! Either we'...
Rituals can be 1. Social. Many people perform the same set of what appears to be causally irrelevant actions before/during/after a particular task. Mo...
The definition: The statement P is true IFF P. An example: "Snow is white" is true IFF Snow is white. Argument A 1. Snow is white \to "Snow is white" ...
To approach the issue of what reality is/isn't on the basis of mind dependence/independence is, as you can see, a dead end. It seems impossible to tel...
Why? There are many definitions of God - from the OOO God to a malus Deus - and all of them jibe with or can be made to with what we know as reality. ...
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