Agent Smith

:rofl: Holy mother of God! What will aliens think of us? We've managed to sully the heavens with our shit! The past is so full of mistakes/gaffes/goof...

Poatmodernism is, I was led to believe, a reaction against the enlightenment zeit geist; probably not in toto but in part, to be precise a specific in...

I never could wrap my head around this alleged self-refutation that happens with logical positivism(?). It's a meta-empirical statement and so to brin...

My only worry is that we could be barking up the wrong tree so to speak. There's a really good correlation between CO2 levels and global average tempe...

Arigato gozaimus for clearing that up. Some should, some shouldn't ... have children!

In a sous rature (under erasure) kinda way or in some other way?

An opinion, regurgitating the official position, is peculiar to the person, his/her bias causing a distortion of the truth which is, taking this to it...

Raise the bar and there's no self; lower the bar and there is a self. Clearly the Buddha was bang on target, vita is dukkha - we're obviously dissatis...

:up: If antintalism is false does that mean natalism is true?

To answer the OP's query we would have to 1. Figure out the hallmarks of a simulation. Just like how NASA looks for biosignatures, we too must first s...

We can be as evil as the devil; we can't be as good as god. Still wanna find your true/authentic/whatever self?

Pragmatic, I salute you! Re Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz & his law of the identity of indiscernibles. As you can see, if I can't tell the difference betw...

You can say that again!

:rofl: Cuckoo bird?

:up: :party: You da man!

Good people are glorified in society - books, poems, biographies, medals, certificates - but, here's where it gets interesting, also pitied and ridicu...

:rofl: You can do it! C'mon!

Christianity has an explanation: Original sin which God punished by issuing a death sentence to Adam & Eve and their descendants viz. us. :snicker: Th...

Isn't there a workaround for that? 10 Print "Take that \infty!" 20 Goto 10

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:up: Epic fail!

:grin: Forgive us mon ami for giving you this enormous responsibility, for assigning this disgusting task, to you but you are ... the chosen one!

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:up: A quick solution, I like it; quite unfortunate that it doesn't appeal to you or to me. The 3rd world will have to be the bigger man so to speak. ...

Silentium est aureum.

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Oh! Banno is the resident Wittgenstein scholar. I thought that was the explanation for his cryptic posts.

On point! Like the famous chiliagon (1000-sided polygon) .

How do we know nobody observed? Wigner's friend? :chin:

Fallacy wise what we have here is the association fallacy. Even so there's this old adage: A (wo)man is known by the company (s)he keeps.

Street smarts trumps book smarts, eh? :up:

It looks like though Sikhism is a syncretism of Hinduism & Islam, it's more saffron than green.

I know! It's a messy business and I don't see a light at the end of this tunnel. Pagliacci scenario and also Woozle effect (Piglet + Pooh lookin' for ...

You're only looking at mortality stats; what about morbidity? Dying of an overdose is just the tip of the iceberg, oui monsieur?

Diffraction?

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Something ... something ... going on here.

:chin: Wittgenstein does that to you! Oui?

Yep, that's a possibility. We're, well, inedible/ignorable! :snicker: People do disappear under mysterious circumstances though. :chin:

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Reminds me of the recent Batman movie (2022). :snicker: A title for a research paper: How movies shape mindsets.

An aspect of being a human (self) is to be virtuous (good) and yet we stand apart from the rest of life as being capable of the worst, we can go toe t...

Ubi vita, ibi dolor?

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You hit the bullseye! That's why... Why do you think it's the way it is? What's so incomprehensible about QM? Is it because when we translate the math...

I'm no good at that! All I can say is that to impose one's wishes, including but not limited to thinking on someone's behalf, herein the child to be b...

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I sense a pattern here (in the classical logic sense). The idea is to come up/discover a proposition whose falsehood would entail a contradiction. The...