L'éléphant

Fine. True, there is a 'pressure' put on businesses to go cloud storage rather than giving businesses scale options. Most businesses are small enough ...

Is this good or bad?

You got the right trajectory of events, but incorrect insight. Semiconductors have increased in production -- but maybe not in the US. Do you know who...

No I do not see your concern. First, you did not just discover human psychology. Maybe you have an epiphany, an insight. But no, you are not introduci...

Do tell.

A lot to unpack from you post. I wish you had created a thread somewhere in the forum. I can totally dismantle your concerns and show you the bright s...

So, you are a realist! Good analogy.

Good analysis. So servers will become obsolete? Big companies use a hybrid of their own servers and public cloud. I truly don't understand the sentime...

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Good! I think of the things outside of our immediate awareness as scaffolding necessary to hold our attention to what's within our means to perceive t...

Good point! I'm glad you're pointing this out. I've stayed away from -- not even reading-- threads about war because the topic becomes a series of pos...

Check for apps that can read handwritten notes. You would need to scan the pages of course. OCR - optical character recognition.

You're supposed to dig deeper into the philosophers' work you cited in your OP. Then you can make an argument for or against it. This is what I wanted...

Not the way the hermeneuts would do it. As I said, philosophers try to avoid reinventing the wheel. If you believe we should think anew, you are essen...

One way to open a thread on this topic is to define "presence" the way it is defined within the confines of philosophy. Philosophers do not re-invent ...

Happy new year, everyone!! Good line. I think for a lot of people, the "nothing" is not something to plan about. But oh yes, that's what I actually pl...

The experimental stage should be as important as the application itself when considering ethics here. Yes, many many trials are possible, but at whose...

In a manner of speaking. We ourselves are an object of inquiry. But it doesn't mean we are mere objects like rocks and chairs. I think there is a diff...

Okay, then we disagree.

Understood. Which has been used as a counter argument many times before. This is like saying, how could there be consciousness when we live in a tempo...

I like it when people say this. I feel I'm closer to humanity. I also did nothing on Christmas. I couldn't drink anymore, so there's that. I did minim...

For ethical considerations - whether the editing is done on somatic or germ cells, the first thing we would want to see is regulation of research and ...

Merry Christmas, everyone. Hmmm. Interesting.

Examples of biodigital convergence should be provided. 1. pace makers 2. genetic manipulation to produce desired behavior or charateristics 3. wearabl...

Please see my post above in response to Janus as to why I disagree with your post. In philosophy, the justification for any belief-- moral, scientific...

@"AmadeusD" please see below for my response to Janus: I'm not sure we are on the same page as far as the meaning of universal moral truths. The worki...

First of all, Tom, your OP makes a very good point. But to @"Janus" -- you touched on the heart of the argument between foundationalism and other form...

You could get arrested or investigated. It's in the context of that moment.

Good luck! Though it is for Christmas, here's the lunar new year good luck: https://images.seattletimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/01242017_LunarN...

Did the OP abandon this thread?

:up: For the codfish.

I like cod a lot. :up:

I'm confused. Do we both agree that natural and normal are two different things?

Brutal! Yes, it's in their eyes that all the expressions are displayed. That cat is relaxed, in a stealth mode. Funny you say that. Cats are calculati...

Approved. Their lack of facial disgust against humans is due to the fact that they lack the proper muscles to contort their face accordingly. This is ...

Natural in the sense that something is natural in a subject due to the subject's existing conditions -- negative or positive environmental factors. Th...

You just pinpointed what is Hume's empirical observation -- it's not about theory or logical deduction. It's about an ordinary person's direct experie...

There is a pattern here in this thread. Rules are made up as we go.

Normal has a scientific and critical foundation, often an organic, developmental, or evolutionary progression. Natural is a trend in a given time peri...

I'm still having a hard time putting it this way. It's the same as saying that the infrastructure in place now is discriminatory towards and/or dismis...

Is there an R?

I understand what you're saying about the uniqueness of person's subjective view. Yes, I will not completely understand being you because I cannot be ...

Ah! Well, it's about Christmas time -- so attitude is appropriate.

Scurrilous?

This is a short-cut to my reply. "What do you need to thrive" is what our societies have been communicating by putting in place the regulations that h...

What's wrong?

Good meditation on the subject. But I disagree with the use of the word contradiction when considering both the objectivity and subjectivity. The obje...

First, I do not agree with your use of the word 'historically' when referring to human anatomy. To say historically implies that it is a practice put ...

I wanted to say the word is solicitous but its definition doesn't sound like it matches the hint given.

Pardon me, but I didn't think you meant morally when you asked that question. And why is the word normal in quotes? Is this a bad thing now to have no...