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:up: Gloomy Guses & Negative Nancies please converge on this post by javi2541997. Superb!

Fantabulous!

If you mean have we anything to brag about?, no! If you mean, can we defend ourselves from an invasion?, still no! In the latter case, they (little gr...

Good point! :up: Ethics applies to imposition simpliciter as it seems to treat human beings as robots! :chin:

Trans people: Desire (I want to be a man/woman) - Identity (I am a man/woman) confusion. I want to be good (a man/woman) but that doesn't make me good...

Even if a robot doesn't feel, you're, as the creator, foisting plain, vanilla existence on it, oui? It didn't choose to exist and that's wrong, no?

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@"schopenhauer1" Even if we could, as transhumanists wish & propose, abolish suffering, the imposition problem would still make reproduction unethical...

I see! Is your argument for antinatalism from imposition still dependent/predicated on dukkha? Odd that! I would think not!

I hope you're right! Through language, its ability to transmit lessons learned, we've transcended the limitations of biology; DNA is not the only info...

That's a fresh perspective - I don't recall coming across it till date. Awesome! Truth tends to be, fortunately/not, very mundane. Oh well, c'est la v...

How sad! My heart goes out to all, not just hindus, moslems & sikhs, who were hurt/killed/worse during the 200k years humans have been around. We real...

I, for better or worse, lack the qualifications necessary to grasp the full import of your post. I can tell you this though, quantum physics to my rec...

Pleonasms, you gotta love 'em! As for the tragic bloodbath during India's partition, I'd say it was actually a memeplex war in the ideaverse that spil...

Truth is simply a property of propositions: If a proposition describes reality, it is true and if it does not, it is false. This is, I believe, the co...

Descartes' cogito argument uses a well-known, time-tested, method of proof viz. reductio ad absurdum. I wonder if his argument makes any sense in para...

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Attribution bias: When someone from an in-group errs, the mistake is chalked up to the individual, as a personal failing; when someone from an out-gro...

An observation is sometimes a measurement itself (quasi-mathematical) and at other times, it's becoming aware of a measurement (by an instrument). Whi...

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:blush: Not exactly the kinda research I was hopin' for. Anyway, CO2 is gonna hurt us animals more than plants?! Am I right?

I have no idea what you're talking about! Nevertheless, it exudes verissimilitude/truthiness. Perhaps me too dumb to understand mon ami! Gracias even ...

Oh! Interesting stuff, eh? Speculative physics trying hardta keep it real! I like that! Heads up in the clouds, yeah, but feet firmly planted on the g...

I dunno! I guess no one's done studies/conducted research on how plants have responded (genetically/physiologically) to increasing CO2 level in the at...

I see. I still feel plants have a card or two up their sleeve. Given the rising CO2 levels, if it harms them too, they should be reacting/responding b...

Except for angiosperms (flowering plants), the older plants (the gymnosperms) don't actually need animals (for pollination/seed dispersal via fruits)....

Do you suppose we need justifications for definitions i.e. can we ask why, as herein relevant, one defines truth in the way we have/will? There are ma...

Best piece of advice I've heard in a long, long time! :up:

And the question of the year award goes to javi2541997.

Yeah, that's where all the action is, at the limits, oui? It's a trope we often see in movies and novels - machiness, people, animals are stretched to...

Clearly, if Einstein is correct, light speed/faster than light speed travel is impossible (set aside worm holes for the moment). All we can hope for a...

Aye, but I was actually referring to how, even though we have an awesome life, it's still an imposition. The point is that it really doesn't matter wh...

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Logic/Rationality/Reason is the heart/nub/crux of wisdom.

Did a quick google search. There's no consensus on what the IQ of a computer is. Some even say it's 0. I wonder what Garry Kasparov (lost to Deep Blue...

What you say is true of course - computers are, to put it bluntly, dumb but do remember they're showcased as the ultimate human invention. Odd that, o...

Interesting combo! I see!

You mean like we're supposed to pass on the baton to a better version of ourselves? :cool:

So, that means, yipee!, to be a philosopher all you havta do is love wisdom (Sophia); you don't actually have to possess Sophia (virgin love à la Lail...

Eudaimonia = Beautitudo (happiness) +/-/×/÷ ?

Virtue is about deeds, the toughest aspect of living the so-called good life. It just dawned on me that the set of actions is a proper subset of the s...

Eudaimonia?

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Delusions - can't live with 'em, can't live without 'em. We're in a tight spot aren't we? Like this SWA triad I discovered just the other day: There's...

I thought knowing that p (a proposition) meant that I couldn't be wrong if to be wrong means p is false. For a contingent truth q, there's a possible ...

Fingers crossed! Gracias for the concern.

Partly, the justification bit, yes!

Hypergraphia is usually one of a constellation of symptoms of mania, the syndrome I mentioned above, and others and these illnesses do have specific m...