universeness

I remember in my youth, having a chat/debate with a homosexual man who at one point exclaimed. 'I don't care about biology! I am not a man and I never...

I think all you say here is valid, as some of the negatives associated with social media. I think there are many positives as well and that overall, t...

Almost all school subjects have 'logical progression,' at their heart. In computing, for example, ADITDEM is key. Analysis (understand the problem) De...

Certainly, women have experienced oppression and so have men. Slavery was not gender, or even age specific. But I don't see any connection between opp...

Recently watched an exchange between Jonathan Haidt, Steven Pinker and Jordan Peterson, titled Enlightenment and the righteous mind. I think it relate...

The point is that your claim is easily checked and verified, we don't have to just accept your word. Moses parting the red sea is not verifiable, unti...

Ok, It would be great to travel from the position you cite here from Nietzche, but I want to highlight the word 'Profound,' again as part of the analy...

I hope I can always take the 'fair and balanced,' approach towards others that you have demonstrated towards me since our small earlier spat.

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Now that you have thrown your last two toys from your pram, your poor mommy/dada will have to go pick them all up. :naughty: Tom

I don't think there is any single quality that would suffice. 'Wise' is vital but I can suggest many labels that might be applied to those who I perso...

By personal judgment! Please don't attempt to talk down to me, I will respond in kind. Your sentence above just comes across as you throwing your toys...

Misunderstanding between contributors to a particular thread is often more prevalent than understanding is. The typed word is a clumsy tool at best. Y...

Why are you attempting to test my understanding of the term, perhaps it would have been wiser to offer your own. It would have been less petty. It's a...

Well the obvious answer is yes, because humans are a subset of all animals. Do the 'next most intelligent species to humans on Earth' experience profu...

We have no current control over extinction via natural disasters such as a big rock from space or the Yellowstone caldera erupting and causing massive...

My personal answer would be by how much the posit challenges my current conclusions.

Well, such 'warning bells' of caution are well made. I think we must globally unite, no more countries, no currencies, no rich, no imbalances of power...

Is this somewhere between false modesty and wordplay? If you contribute to conversations such as 'why are we?' and 'where did the Universe come from?'...

Well, I was the one who was 'setting up the scenario,' so who else are you suggesting is 'hand wringing,' if not me? Differences in nomenclature and a...

I sooooo recognise this, first as a 'now and then' recurrence in myself and in almost all of my friends. I love the 'ask for more' bit firstly in the ...

I think your true position here runs far deeper than you reveal but I will spare you any amateur attempt at psychoanalysis on my part. Do you think yo...

Perhaps it's a natural initial reaction to suspect the intentions of strangers. I am certainly engaging in moral rumination, your opinion that its unn...

Any more detail? Can 'I did it my way,' ever be the madman's final insult, which is more like an evil 'so f*** all of you,' I don't care how many died...

Ok, I understand what you have typed but I don't personally see much value in the 'twice born' description you offer. In the OP I asked the question, ...

I agree.

I also get 'frustrated,' because my current answers seem flawed to me. I will try to 'word' them here but I can feel the frustration rise as I try to ...

Offering a little order to a perceived initial chaos, is beneficial to all readers, I'm sure. But to what depth/breadth/length? Awareness of self may ...

If that's the case then, Sorry Yohan! I'm sure you agree, the best solution to misinterpretation is further explanation and clarification.

When you say 'choice I make.' Could you have chosen otherwise or was the compulsion too strong to pursue wisdom? I think I NEED to pursue such to give...

Ok, but no, I don't think that covers all my questions at all, but if you think what you have typed via Dan Dennet closes the thread for you then, fai...

No, I don't think it's anything to do with Deepak Chopra. According to: https://www.edinburghskeptics.co.uk/skepdayJan/Deepity The term was "First coi...

Ok, but you use the words 'might be,' so you must have an opinion about their reasoning? Are the individuals you are typing about just malcontents? Do...

:lol: Perhaps you could offer me a little trust that my intentions are honorable and offer a little more depth of your own personal opinion towards th...

Yeah, I agree. There are many nefarious groups/organisations but I don't think there has ever been a group that is so well structured, that they have ...

I have at least a hundred questions for you based on these words alone Agent Smith but can I at least ask: In your opinion, was this an accidental/del...

Wetwear is just a buzz term that currently belongs more to sci-fi than computing science. We don't have any technology that you could call an 'organic...

But if a group did choose to set up an Epicurean communal system, I assume that they would do so because they thought that was a better or superior wa...

To me, this thinking is based on a very old bias. The notion that up is in some way superior to down or right is superior to left. This is mathematica...

Another line of thought might be, in your opinion, is the capitalist free market economy 'superior' to the Epicurean commune?

Can there be a modern physics without Newtonian physics? Modern physics has the larger scope due to Newtonian physics. Are scientists smarter now than...

Evidence?

I was not going for absolutes. I was going for a level of comparison between a current AI system and human thought processes. An electronic knowledge ...

I don't see them as combative. 'Standing on the shoulders of giants,' is how new science should forever view old science. To me, the term 'new science...

I don't really subscribe to old ways or new ways of thinking, especially on a website that is forever quoting from ancient thinking and thinkers. Ther...

Perhaps that's why I included the words 'kind of' and put them in quotes for emphasis. I don't have the qualifications in cognitive science or in the ...

Yeah, I have the Twilight Zone box sets. I remember the episode well. I wonder how long it would be before the physical joy of an eternal orgasm would...

I think our best attempts algorithmically are 'object oriented' approaches combined with the idea of 'methods.' The autonomous vehicles we have sent t...

There are many varieties of panpsychism, such as cosmopsychism etc but I don't think the initial 'ingredients' or quanta or initial composites of cons...