Agent Smith

X: Where are you going? Y: Nowhere, I just like walking. All this fitness craze that's taken the entire world by storm, there's something to it, eh? B...

Ok. A question: Do you mean to say that h. sapiens suffered the most during the course of evolution? After all we are the ones most adept at metacogni...

Antinatalism makes zero sense: Pain/suffering is important only to the extent that it delays/prevents death (nonexistence). To then prescribe nonexist...

I hope this whole climate change affair isn't a detective novel - all the evidence points to one person but in the end the culprit turns out to be an ...

Death can be meaningful, oui mes amies? Martyrdom in a secular context.

Gracias for the good wishes.

I must beg to differ unless someone's managed to find a solution for the amount of stress involved in being mindful 24×7. Trust the gods of evolution ...

Karma, though it's an extrapolation of Newton's 3rd law of motion (action = reaction) is unscientific - it can't be falsified since e.g. if you buy a ...

To say the scientific method works simply means it has produced many (scientific) theories that do a good job of a) explaining phenomena and b) predic...

:grin: It's true, it is!

Algos is your ally, it saves you from Thanatos Thanatos is your ally, it releases you from Algos. Frenemy! :snicker:

Danke for the explanation. Do you see any connection between 1 & 3?

I see but wouldn't it be better to say we don't know if p or ~p instead of we know neither p nor ~p. There's a difference, no?

Doesn't it make more sense to say the truth value of unproven statements is unknown (it is true/false, we just don't know which) instead of neither tr...

There are probably many ways of dealing with nothingness, yours is one of 'em. Another way would be at the very least grapple with it in an attempt to...

X: Don't be scared, it's nothing! See? Y: You fool, nothing is precisely what scares me! :rofl:

Indeed, the scientific method requires what Einstein himself went the extra mile to convey to neophytes and veterans in the field - imagination.

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Reverse racism! Yeah, kinda like where an illness is used as treatment for the very same illness. You can't rectify discrimination with more discrimin...

Something not quite right there. Did you mean (the Goldbach conjecture is) true XOR false? Any proposition is either true or false (principle of bival...

Where do moles, nocturnal critters get their vitamin D? :chin:

Kinda...but it definitely isn't working.

Remember the good times, remember the good times.

I was one too! Now circumstances don't permit me to maintain that lifestyle. Forced extrovert, that's me! (Some) Women marry the weirdest of men! I do...

Yeah, I second that. There's another thread here on what truth is?

Sounds very vitamin Dish. As an alternative you can just go sun bathing - the skin manufactures vitamin D in the presence of sunlight, kinda like phot...

What I would say is 1. Not that force is mass times acceleration (metaphysics) 2. But that force is equal to mass times acceleration (mathematics)

By works I suppose you mean that predictions (made by scientific theories) come true which is to say we have some semblance of control over our enviro...

I don't understand what you're saying. :blush: Can you elaborate...please?

Well yeah, any human can with the greatest ease out-Devil the Devil; as for being better than God, dream on!

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This, is it a definition?, breaks down when we take into account the following facts: 1. How do we determine correspondence with reality? Via observat...

Oh! But he can't say thaaat, can he now?

The correspondence theory of truth - necessary but not sufficient, ok, but in what sense? Logically, aesthetically, spiritually, for no apparent reaso...

Ok but aren't you rainin' on my parade and on others' parades too? Is there no other way than to just poop at someone's party? Beauty, to me, is the v...

I trust the mods, they know what they're doin'.

When you heat up coke/pepsi, the CO2 bubbles out!

Human Rights in Islam What if someone had killed Adam or Eve?

The so-called generation gap manifesting via your dad in so embarrassing ways that it's hilarious = Dad joke!

Well, here's the deal. 1. Fiber optics: we can change the direction of light (EM radiation) by playing around with medium (making it flexible). 2. Hig...

There you go, from the great Keats himself!

Until later!

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I was/am one of the vipers! :sad:

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Muchas gracias 3017amen (banned)! :chin: I was close then.

Bonam fortunam.

It was rhetorical! He didn't expect an answer. I didn't provide one; too dumb!

To give the devil his due, this isn't deliberate and though this is not good, it ain't bad either. I second that! Like this young fellow once asked my...