Agent Smith

Non intellego! (I hope I got that right).

Talk is cheap. Theory and praxis are two enitrely different worlds and most of the bridges between 'em have collapsed so many times that we need to re...

This, some would say, is building castles in the air, a mere pipe dream. I'm an optimist though so, yeah!

To my reckoning, the logic of utilitarianism is as plain as the nose on your face. If 1 life is valuable then surely n lives are more valuable (n > 1)...

Wise words. Who will watch over my family after I'm gone?

Is this your theory of dark energy - the mysterious force that's causing cosmic expansion? You didn't mention the acceleratation that some say is occu...

Camusian irony/paradox: Why are there beings (humans) who seek meaning in a world that doesn't seem to have any? A wicked problem! I haven't actually ...

A painting can only be as good as the painter. Clearly, God is a human invention - God of scripture has flaws that are human ... too human. GIGO! Vide...

??? ????? (Ati sundar: Glorious/most beautiful). Accounts of God having answered prayers is total hogwash! That however doesn't mean we stop praying.

Expand & Elaborate ... please. Animals lack so-called inner awareness and they're in near-perfect harmony with the environment and even if they do ups...

It was just a pattern I saw. It isn't perfect I know, but I'm neither a mathematician nor a physicist; so all I got is a vague intuition.

My views on truth A proposition p says something of/about something. If what p says corresponds to how that something is, p is true; if not, p is fals...

Gamora : This is the one? Seriously? Nebula : The choices were him or a tree. :snicker:

Lookism? In the ideaverse? No wonder some of these memes - the aesthetically challenged ones in all likelihood - override our self-preservation instin...

The nerve! :rage:

:rofl:

Ok. My gedanken experiment failed miserably. Well, at least you got to show off your mental prowess! I'm impressed.

What, if I may be so bold as to ask, have you to report since being on the path to (self) realization?

:rofl: He's skating on thin ice for sure.

Alright, imagine this scenario: You get wind of a suicide in your neighborhood. The person, a Mr. X, has died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. It pi...

What gets me stoked is this: the skill set the OP wishes robots to have may require computing power & programming complexity sufficient to make such r...

Aye but not willingly, si?

Up to a point! Nec quid nimis.

So the PSR (the principle of sufficient reason) is not entirely correct. Although I'm no psychologist, I'd say such behavior is part of play (& learn)...

Desmet is worried to bits about what scientists once had to face - authoritarianism vis-à-vis truth. The Church used to have a monopoly over "facts" i...

Genetics confirms your statement. https://youtu.be/HftWsV-Q-fE

I know I should but I do not share your pessimism. Of course I don't recommend Panglossian/Polyannaish optimism to anyone else ... its a surefire way ...

Classifed, top secret! You'll need to get security clearance to view these docs. :smile: And disinformation had its humble origins in Moscow (dezinfor...

I'm most disappointed that you don't share my perspective on the matter! Do you sense a contradiction in my proposal to make life less unbearable? If ...

Is life = suffering? Are they the same thing? I'd bet my bottom dollar that no, they're not. From that simple realization we come to the obvious concl...

Acclimatization? Wish we could do that with sorrow, life's arch enemy (re antinatalism). In the armed forces, it's called training for ... pain/sorrow...

:chin: There's some semblance of the beyond but not quite in my humble opinion. Nevertheless, a valiant attempt which deserves a gold star despite the...

The word "absurd" seems to suggest something more than funny. I mean it seems to be saying "yeah its funny but then that it's no laughing matter". I r...

How? Can you explain?

I saw this cool video on how 4D objects "passing through" a 3D universe would look like. The presenter first shows how a 3D sphere passing through a 2...

Free will won't? Choices offered, one/more denied. :chin:

Muchas gracias. I'll read the linked article when I get the time.

I have to agree with what you say - the world's problems seem traceable back to one/more moral flaws either in an individual or of a group. Neverthele...

I vaguely recall reading and it seems possible that any statement/proposition in logic can be rephrased using only two connectives viz. OR (v) and NOT...

Since now I'll be repeating the same point, I agree, the exchange betwixt us has come to an end. Good day.

From a scan of the OP I'm left with the same feeling that I had when I meditated upon the statement "this pen is good". What does it mean? Well, that ...

Nope, I haven't seen this Sean Connery flick, but it looks interesting.

Your weltanschauung is impressive mon ami! It touches a chord in me - it's not just the rhetorical flourish in your posts, there's depth & breadth in ...

A succinct way to describe the scientific method. The 3rd step however doesn't prove the explanation (2) is true (re abduction aka argument to the bes...

:up: I thought "to lose oneself in ..." was a good thing. I can't recall where exactly I heard that being praised though. Too, the flip side of the co...

Danke for the snapshots of Schopenhauer's thoughts on the issue. Fyodor Dostoevsky wrote this book Crime and Punishment - I've had it since 2001 or th...

:up: Peace!

Well, here's an option I didn't think of until now - we're at full liberty to reject our self as not who we are and that for no reason at all but beca...