The David-Goliath Paradox As we go bigger and bigger (cosmic scale), to extract any information that maybe useful (e.g. alien life), our instruments m...
From theories of gravity, something which I'm more familiar with, I'd say that scientific theories seem to progress in such a way that the older ones ...
Another thing: How does the logic of biosignatures work? Did the Mars rover "think" 1. If life then so and so biosignatures (scientific hypothesis i.e...
Signatures, distinct signs, of life! We all seem to have vague ideas about what light-spectral identifying features of life are. Details, anyone have ...
The phenomenal power of logic! What scientists are able to do these days could've been easily mistaken for sorcery a few hundred years ago! 1,500 ligh...
Yes, yes, and yes! Space and time are properties. Missed that completely! So, is for every predicate P if Px & also Py, x = y with especial care taken...
All I can say is that given how a host of inexpensive contraceptives (for men & women) are available off-the-counter and in reproductive clinics, beco...
Yeah, you can trust science/philosophy to mess up our crisp, sharply defined categories. Before science/philosophy: A human was simply someone who had...
& @"jgill" I wonder what Max Tegmark would've said about my query. I'm neither a mathematician nor a physicist so you'll have to cut me some slack her...
If we construct a hypothetical scale for suffering then there's a point beyond which the sign flips and suffering goes from pro-life (for existence) t...
Well, that went over my head, but what caught my eye is that what you seem to be saying is our options aren't \infty i.e. we may restricted to finite ...
Your post has Martin Rees written all over it. A compliment, not a put-down. Mankind in particular, life in general, has been reinstated, put back on ...
Merci beaucoup for the warning! Graham's number appears in a mathematical proof but what about calculations that use actual measurements such as mass,...
Astronmers are there to put us in our place! :snicker: The irony is that Copernicus was working for the Church, an organization that's all about how h...
:fire: Holistic approach. There's an excellent reason why we can reason and emote. It's an old cliché that the former hasta be isolated and guarded ag...
Antinatalism gives me AI vibes! It's the kinda solution to problems (herein suffering) an AI would come up with. It also reminds me of Stalin (vide in...
The problem with Penrose's hypothesis is that microtubles aren't restricted to brains, the purported thinking organ. It's a step backwards in that sen...
Morality is built around 2 concepts: 1. Algos (sorrow/joy) 2. Thanatos (death/life) Pro-choicers may get themselves off the hook by saying the fetus f...
So, happy folks are there to, inter alia, rub salt on sad folks' wounds, to intensify the suffering, to double the pain as it were. Are happy folks th...
A more benign/less toxic meaning of ego then. I dunno, the ego seems to straddle the worlds of the imaginary and real? Is the ego/self the brain/mind?...
Suffering has more weightage than happiness - i.e. even if it's unlikely that I could go to hell, it's still a cause of much anxiety. I can't take any...
When face to face with uncertainty and the future of children are precisely that, we must/usually assume the worst (outcome). Hence, antinatalism. Thi...
:ok: What exactly are we talking about here? 1. Suffering, its excessiveness (even from a stoic perspective). 2. Happiness, hard to come by and fleeti...
How about we look up some statistics? Are people rational? Look around and, well, smell the roses shit we're neck deep in. One requirement for being a...
Let's go Aristotle and find the aurea mediocritas betwixt faith (belief sans evidence) & reason (belief only on evidence). I see reason extending a ha...
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