universeness

Don't get over-excited auld yin! :lol: Yer nuts will shrivel even mair than they already huv!

This is the year 2023. Evolution via natural selection had 13.8 billion years. The genus homo has only been here for a small duration in the cosmic ca...

I prefer the definition of democracy as governance of, for and by the people. You have some eccentric views of what might still be labelled as 'democr...

I broadly agree. Years ago, I read about (and then saw it dramatised in a movie called 'The Fall of The Roman Empire' (I think)) such an attempt by th...

I think Mr Schop1 has been able to sneak in a few new antinatalist threads since the move the mods made to put them all under 1 title. I have made a s...

I have never understood that phrase and even as a het, sis, man, I find it offensive. Housewife/husband, home maker etc, when in truth is a very deman...

Yeah, I think I get at least the main jist, of all the points made. I only cited paradox just to exemplify the notion of 'we just cant currently know....

Never have more truthful words been typed or spoken Vera!!! :clap: :clap: :flower: and repeated by so many. I damn entire 'systems of governance' and ...

Again, absafragginlootly! I think I maybe over-using that colloquialism.

How do you account for 'paradox' in your 'every possibility that can happen, will happen in time.' If I state 'The only true existent regarding Boltzm...

Picard or 'Patrick Stewart' is just too 'Shakespearian' for me. I still love TNG of course. I have finished watching Picard season 2, and Discovery se...

My dibs are bigger that your dibs :lol: The neverending claim of all historical and current gangsters/heros/nations and so called, attempts at human c...

:grin: Yeah, I don't think there is anywhere in the world you could visit, if your pre-requisite was 'the people of this land have no 'savagery' in th...

My code of law and ethics did not apply to the Nazis in the 20th century, as far as they were concerned, when they murdered lots of innocent people, j...

Absafragginlootly! and WHEN I gain full possession, the first things I will do, is drop 'Boltzmann' from the name, and go looking for a qualified Capt...

In Sparta, if you were disabled at birth, or had a mental illness as a child, they would murder you. Mostly you were thrown from a high hill, or left ...

So, why not stick for now to comparing the Spartans with the Athenians, the Thesbians and Thebes, Rhodes, Corinth, Argos etc. The influence of the Gre...

CONFORMATION????? :lol: or :scream: or :vomit: or :cool: Not sure which!

Yeah, I liked how B5's author, Joseph Michael Straczynski used the Vorlons to represent the ancient notions of gods and angels and the Shadows as Sata...

Does that mean that you could have played the part of Frasier's super model or @"Hanover"'s :joke:

Well Steven Pinker did a fairly good job of pointing out the overall improvements since the days of the ancients, with his 72 charts in the 'Enlighten...

How do you know, if you have only ever experienced one and not the other? Many on this site favour empirical evidence over theistic style fantasy. Pro...

No need to wear a uniform Vera, you can become part of the civ branch. You are never too old to be helpful and useful. The same old crap is still arou...

From a mathematical pov, does prime number theorem support or act against the Boltzmann brain proposal?

Yeah, but he had a lot to deal with, alcoholism, his best friend was killed on Mars because of his investigation, his best friends daughter (who used ...

You have already agreed that all 'numbers' are finite and in my opinion, there is no infinite volume. YES, I am suggesting the universe is spatially f...

I thought I had already answered that question with the suggestion that using my own subjective probability, I think that the universe is NOT infinite...

As John Sheridan has been known to utter, "absafragginlootly Vera." Ok, I added the Vera part myself but yes, those who cannot find satisfactory purpo...

I think the general historical view is summarised as something like: We don’t actually know what the Celts called themselves. The name ‘Celts’ is a mo...

Here is a little 10 min taster that I think is quite a good summary of the human condition projected into a possible future which includes reaching a ...

Have you replied to the wrong poster here? You did not reply to me asking about subjective probabilities, you directed that towards noAxioms and sophi...

Would you follow the Shadows or the Vorlons in the Babylon 5 universe, or would you reject them both?

The trouble is that the Star Trek prime directive was NEVER applied in our early history. Bloody conquest was the main clarion call in the infancy of ...

I remember Forrest Valkai (an online biologist who often tries to help theists deconstruct and become atheist) talking about how human cells have deve...

I think your statement above is nonsense, based in the definition of a googolplex. Thank you for your unrequested, unrequired and impudent condolences...

I really like most of your list of 12 proviso's for a better world but I would change 6 to "Universal FREE education, healthcare and a guaranteed welf...

Yeah, I watched that series when it first came out. Lucy looks quite 'Royal' when she cosplay's the role. Her strange little lisp, and the way she cla...

The sad reality is that those who really do have the power to change the human experience for the better is 'the people' united in common cause. Power...

We gorra keep trying buddy! Surely, things can only get better, when m.a.d IS the other option at the opposite extremity, of the list of options.

Oh, we could probably find good, wise, trustworthy, mad enough folks, to make up the committee. I just worry for their protection, if they choose to u...

Yep, this fit's the current notion of the treatment that Islamic fundamentalists, christian evanhellicals and merase worshiper DNA and RNA strands thi...

I don't assign much value to notions such as infinity or 'an infinite number of possibilities,' etc. A notional number like a googolplex, cannot be wr...

Oh man, YOU BLEW MY COVER! https://youtu.be/Hf0sKXhsUPA OKAY, I am not and never have been a gentleman! Wellington said the same thing about Napoleon,...

The Enzyme priesthood cites the biblical text of the one true god, Merase, blessing and peace be upon it! And verily Merase said, let there be nucleos...

Can you imagine such an attempt and such a committee. :grin: Who would you put on such a committee?

Who is having a Eurovision song contest party tonight? I am being forced to attend one at my sisters house. :groan:

Just to attempt to use some human language to invoke the language used at the level of DNA, how about this, An enzyme says to a passing strand of DNA,...

If the Universe can manifest Boltzman brains, then surely they would at least be a numerous as planets or neutrinos. What would restrict their number?...

No, quantum fluctuations ARE what space does, within tiny durations of time. Space itself, is most likely dynamic. 3D spatial perturbation, may also b...

So first consider; and from wiki: Dark matter is called "dark" because it does not appear to interact with the electromagnetic field, which means it d...