I had to look up Biodome with Pauly Shore, (I did like Jack Black's tenacious D!) I like to listen to someone passionately talk about a book or song o...
Yep, could be worth a read, based also on the wiki comment: Leon M. Lederman, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist and current Director Emeritus of Fermila...
Loved that Star Trek episode, but I don't think we will be able to throw a future ASI into a shutdown by behaving randomly illogical. :lol: Although i...
No, I am interested in the personal credence level you assign to posits such as deism, or the actual existence of a prime mover, creator of the univer...
I know that, based on the thread you authored on the topic. I was responding to your more general point that it's more important to discuss the substa...
There is NO more evidence for a non-intervening god than there is for an intervening one. I am interested in the credence level you would assign to de...
The basic means of survival must become free, as a human right, from cradle to grave, alongside free high quality medical care, and free, efficient po...
But don't underplay the significance of that event. That is approximately when the universe was called the universe. What's in a name? HUMAN INTELLIGE...
I do experience personal incredulity towards others, yes, but I still remain very interested as to why a persons believes as they do. I try to balance...
Well, a little more detail in your 'speculations,' may help more of your readers understand where you are coming from. Is your 'deist creator' analogu...
I broadly agree, but 'what the word means,' IS a very substantive issue imo. God, science, universe, metaphysics, transcendent, sophist, liar are all ...
Why? Spacetime positions are relative. I don't see why its position would be important, if the purpose is to represent any 'up-quark' using something ...
As I said, sometimes, you seem a little bit crazy. :lol: Then I hope you will fight or have already fought for justice for your grandmother in the Net...
I still think you are a nice person noAxioms but you might also be a bit mad! :joke: If those who you would have labelled as 'on the correct side' of ...
I don't understand your logic here. Exponential growth and linear growth are both growth, why does 'the number of descendants per capita, in the long ...
From a Quora discussion: as shown in peer-reviewed reviews over the last 10 years, to be the result of the conversion of deuterium to helium, and that...
It's really quite simple. Love is a human label and it's manifestations and consequences are demonstrated everyday by lifeforms such as humans. So, th...
So based on this 'I don't know,' admission regarding the origin story of the universe or answering the hard problem of consciousness, your musings has...
Well, I wouldn't try to fill that gap with something as bland as deism, as it's irrational to do so, imo. Darwinian evolution has nothing to do with a...
Hello Gnomon the deist. Deism's belief that a disinterested creator, created us for no confirmed or understood reason, makes such a suggestion irratio...
But what we must surely be highly credited for (especially by lazy minded theism), is, that we WILL continue to grapple with and try to grasp such ide...
The 'void' has no thinking agent. No! atoms don't experience love! whether they are entangled or not. 'Hot' and 'cold,' are useful human labels and co...
:lol: I appreciate your gently delivered insult. Aristotle was a theist and Plato seemed to believe in some sort of creator or prime mover. Aristotle ...
We can only continue to raise our objections to his approach and continue to probe to discover if he is in fact a theist trying to pose in scientific ...
:grin: Two great sources to post Aliks! Yep, even the so called AI systems don't agree with each other. As has always been the case, each of us must d...
I think your detailed OP could simply conclude that it's unlikely that any god posit, has an actual existent, that we humans can scapegoat, for all th...
Perhaps not religious, but it is theistic or theological or theosophist, to suggest a first cause, external to THIS universe which had 'intent' to cau...
:clap: Very well said Athena! I have came across many great thinkers on many interactive internet sites. I really enjoy and value TPF, but I also love...
Fair enough, but is this not an argument from ignorance? Its like "I don't know the answers, so, it just is what it is and that's all that it is!' I d...
This is just a 'first cause' analogy. There is no first cause necessity imo. If something like CCC is correct then a first cause is pushed back so far...
Not forget about it, but we can certainly put it to one side for now, in our exchange. Only until friction brings the ball to rest. At any instant in ...
I enjoy the debate and I am grateful for those who take the time to contribute. I learn from all of you in many different ways. I improve my knowledge...
I think an objective reality exists at the biggest reference frame of the universe but I have no idea if humans or future transhumans will ever be abl...
I would certainly give you my full support on that one. But not your ideas on how to deal with excess population. Great question! By negotiation, base...
Yeah? I will send you one of my skin cells and you can deliver my clone to me when you have finished creating it! :joke: I was referring to sentient l...
Abiogenisis may have happened in water and at some point moved on to land and into the air. Life now exists on land sea and air. Off planet is the nex...
The justification seems obvious , in that, there is a lot more room in space than there is here on earth. I don't mean to downplay your perfectly corr...
Less and less and finally zero. The target is E=ER, which is far more important that efficiency issues. I would rather have a less efficient global en...
:lol: I see you both in your individual dodgem cars. WATCH OUT Gnomon, he's right behind you! Try to enjoy the tussling between you, it need not be so...
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