You underestimate us, mon ami! You also fail, quite paradoxically, to understand human nature - wealth, fame, and power drive us and you, of course, k...
It's impossible to know nothing. Below, I offer an excerpt from a book on apples: Apples are not rocks, they don't grow in tar. They're not found in t...
Evidence then that panpsychism is false (no discernible change in behavior of matter/energy despite patterns/laws in their conduct being public knowle...
Nice! I recall saying that any book, the Bibilia Sacra included, that makes the reader go huh, WTF? is either many or one giant Zen Koan(s), meant to ...
Si, señor! Everything can't exist (MAD - mutually assured destruction - of things and anti-things) and nothing would result. It is possible then, if e...
A perfect rational being (unbiased) aka God is going to be an authority on everything, including ethics, oui? Divine Command Theory? I'm referring to ...
Why is there something rather than nothing? We need an argument that demonstrates that nothing is impossible or that something is necessary, same thin...
Have you heard of Punctum Archimedis aka God's-Eye-View? God, on this reading, is the perfect rational being (free from all biases, known and unknown)...
Is this a discussion on (the pricking of) conscience? What is conscience but the realization that one has done wrong even when one has gotten away wit...
Nice! EnFormAction General ideas: 1. Primum movens aka EnFormer/Intender 2. BothAnd (yin-yang) Specific ideas: 1. Information-based theory 2. EnFormy ...
There's this paradigm, quite ancient, that reason (mind) is at war with emotion (heart) which seems to have dropped out of favor in modern psychology ...
Well, it is fascinating is it not? If we could somehow prove that -\frac{1}{12} can take the place of \infty in every calculation \infty pops up in, w...
I see. So, you mean to say reason is better than emotions. I concur - the former seems to be a means of sussing out genuine reasons to be happy/sad/an...
I wish we had data to work on. Methinks happiness & wealth are strongly correlated which makes the paradox even more baffling. Happy people don't want...
This (\sum_{n=1}^{\infty} = -\frac{1}{12})"nonsense result" has applications in science, in string theory to be precise. I thought mathematicians like...
Here's a rather curious paradox. Educated, well-to-do folks are opting to remain childless or have only small families. A fortiori the poor should be ...
I see now the import of your question, but as I said earlier, the assumption I'm making in my mathematical formulation of the issue is that we exist p...
If the odds are in favor of a pleasurable existence, the person who decides to play the game of life wins :party: . If the opposite, the player loses ...
The math assumes it's possible to decide whether to be born as a human on Earth. The catch is the veil of ignorance - you have no control over those f...
All that comes to mind is Russia/Putin isn't a nitwit - war must've been always the last option. Why would you send thousands and thousands of one's s...
The low hangin' fruits are godless utilitarianism (hedonic) and also godless Kantian ethics (consistency). What about the famous Euthyphro's dilemma? ...
Probabilistic, game-theoreric analysis natalism-antinatalism: What and how much are the charges for playing the game of life? Say it's -p (entry fee i...
From my own bag of simple experiences: A thief was shot twice - once in the chest and once in the butt - by police. He was brought unconscious into th...
Nice! I have a rough idea of what you're gettin' at. Your is what I'd call a variable-based theory. It generalizes the intuition/rationale of the mult...
I see. So I'm not exactly wrong in saying some experts object to \infty. Do you know any reasons why? As per some sources, the Greeks kept \infty at a...
Ok, it's obvious now that antinatalism is false - the reason for this is its scope - it advocates for universal cessation of births which is impossibl...
The Greek notion of metempsychosis doesn't include karma (moral causation). Everybody reborn is given a fresh start, there being no such thing as a ka...
Sancta trinitas unus deus. Hallelujah! (The Father)\frac{1}{2} \equiv (The Son) \frac{4}{8} \equiv (The Holy Spirit) \frac{6}{12} (The Father) \frac{1...
Gracias for answering my question. Most of your reply went over my head; nevertheless, I sense an agreement on your part that other branches of math, ...
The temperature data fits the climate change hypothesis alright, but what/where are the other hypotheses? There should be at least one other which the...
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