By possibilities I mean those multiple hypotheses that square with data. For instance if I give you the sequence 2, 4, 8, ... the pattern could either...
The binary logic is just part of the process of negation. If I say "love is not attachment" then that would mean "love is detachment". I evaluated bot...
:grin: We need to think outside the box. Truth is priceless for it can make the difference between life and death; however if survival is our #1 prior...
Now that I think of it, despite the claims that fake news and its ilk started the whole thing, it's actually high time philosophy underwent a paradigm...
To locate the JWST at a Lagrange point was probably a bad idea. They're gravitational dead zones, the gravitational pulls of different celestial bodie...
I concur. We must treat computers as a distinct linguistic species - our job is to translate human ideas into machine language. If they're good at fin...
The bad news: We can get addicted to thinking The good news: If you have to get addicted to something, inshallah let it be to thinking. \uparrowLast w...
All Gods are possibilities we can't rule out with 100% certainty. Every hypothesis has a loop hole that can be plugged to stop fatal hemorrhaging ad h...
It is by now obvious that there's no way we can tell the difference between simulation and real - the evidence that we need lie beyond our collective ...
Here's what I suggest: AI is good at picking up patterns in images and also sounds too. We need to translate concepts/ideas/theories/whathaveyous into...
Time travel would be impossible if the past and the future didn't exist. Computer, take me to 10,000 BC Error! Destination does not exist! Ok, compute...
Then he spoke ... the Tao Te Ching He contradicted himself (Western verdict on an Eastern case) i.e. he first wrote Tao Te Ching and then took, what?,...
The JWST hasn't made any startling new discoveries. :groan: I expected a paradigm shift event to occur. Looks like the JWST is nothing more than an up...
Socrates speaks for all mankind. The Tao Te Ching has to be read in Chinese to understand it? I believe that's true and yet here we are pointing radio...
Most people spend their profits 1. To fuel growth (use money to make more money) 2. For conspicuous consumption (splurge on expensive services/stuff) ...
Disbelief in God, which some atheists claim is their stance, is simply reverting back to the starting line of all epistemic enterprises which is, in t...
Orient = Occident For a man of the 20th century, I'd say Western philosophy is best-suited as the world is dominated by Western meme-plexes and a simp...
Care ethics, from a drive-by of its Wikipedia entry, has as its point of origin the realization that there's more to ethics than logic (deontological ...
Indeed Jack, indeed! The modern world is no longer about truth and how to get to it but about how to lie "well". Nevertheless, in that a lie hasta hav...
Nice! As per your assessment then love isn't attachment and, flipping the sign, it hasta be detachment, but then we end up with the problem of having ...
To have machines take over, kick off the technological/cognitive singularity would be the sparkling jewel in our crown even if it means our exit from ...
The solution to technological problems, these being the royal pain in our arses, it looks like, is more technology; these in turn will have their own ...
The Luddite movement can be pinned down to sheer jealousy - machines are (getting) better than us at being us! Machines are stronger, faster, smarter,...
:up: Educators need to be given points for creativity when they use relatable analogies; nonetheless, a poor analogy can do more harm than good. Mathe...
Epimenedes was himself Cretan. If everybody's lyin', there are, intriguingly, no truths i.e. we're livin' in a world of lies. Given this simple truth,...
To me Enformationism, what I could grasp of it, manages to capture all 3 aspects of God: benevolence (stoic virtue, living in accord with the laws of ...
Excelente! All this while, for aeons on end, each living organism has been adapting to its environment, both living & nonliving and that's been the se...
Physically: 1. Internal reproductive organs. The difference between men and women is quite clear: the former have testes that produce sperm and the la...
Good observation: Women could've been, practically are, a distinct race. Men just use women for making copies of themselves (babies). Did you know, fe...
@"Gnomon" Good question, mon ami! As far as I can tell, there's no escaping harmony. Let's say we have disharmony - this with harmony is again harmony...
OP, you might also be interested in: 1. Kotov syndrome: In Kotov's 1971 book Think Like a Grandmaster, he described a situation when a player thinks v...
So the OP boils down to the query "how mindful should we be?" Is there a sweet spot for vigilance between excess and deficiency? For starters, it's a ...
Let me be honest here, I really like your EnformAction idea and its BothAnd foundation. Religion needs an update and pronto; the best way to do that i...
:up: On point mon ami, on point. I've seen people cry during goodbyes even when they knew very well the person leaving was going to return in a year o...
Why do people cry when their near and dear ones die? It can't be because the deceased is going to a, ahem, "better place". Ergo ... either nothing or ...
A very informative post Jack. I'm in your debt. Clearly there's been a lot of research since I last touched a book on biology. My files are outdated; ...
I'm no expert and I really haven't given the matter the attention it demands. If you want my opinion, I'd say contraries can be resolved usin' the via...
Comments