universeness

I did not suggest intellectual superiority I suggested intellectual advancement due to a legacy of an ever increasing knowledge base. The bible is mos...

I can see the usefulness of this, for discussing issues such as good and evil, as humans perceive such subjective constructs. I can see the value of s...

:up: Alba gu bràth, BUT, my earthling status means more. Braveheart is historically inaccurate, but the main story is true ........ or at least as tru...

Braveheart 12 angry men The grapes of Wrath To kill a mocking bird Gettysburg Waterloo Lord of the rings (all of them) Powder Sunset Boulevard Platoon

Thanks! Well I certainly think we humans can assume disorder, in a situation, which does have some fundamental order or very complicated underlying or...

No, I had to google it. Subtracting the non-essential to improve the chances of success at achieving a goal, seems very valid to me, in situations whi...

So, god as a mere projection of human fears and aspirations and not something that has an existent. If that's what you are suggesting then, I agree. G...

Yeah! this is not the best way to instal confidence in why you might accept the scientific assertions of the very learned and well established, Leonar...

I am not suggesting we are more intelligent than the ancients or that we will be 'more intelligent' in the future, in that sense. I am saying that we ...

Not sure what you mean by this? Example? Based on a BBC article: Several hundred people have already paid to have their bodies cryogenically preserved...

Cheers! Twas a nice evening. Only me and my auld ma in the hoose, but It was still a good wee night. I had two generous measures of a 16 year old Laga...

Ok, that's fine, but you must expect, and accept, a higher level of critique than might be fired at the work and results of scientists working in labs...

I would not suggest that increases in individual intelligence or in the collective/totality of human intelligence, is THE 'yardstick' or the only impo...

There is plenty of space for notions of reductionism and Emergentism to find common ground. I think it's basic, that complexity emerges from fundament...

This just leaves folks to assume neutral or anti, when you type not pro and pro when you suggest not anti. In science, the term 'novel,' just means 'n...

I will respond to this post tomorrow Gnomon as I don't have enough time to respond to it as I would want to, as It's now 4:20pm here and I am only 10 ...

Spacefarers could meet, who have similar tech levels. I agree that if they can visit us and we cant visit them, then the tech comparison, probably wil...

Firstly, it seems I have the spelling of his first name wrong and its Leonard Susskind. He is certainly no quack and is held in very high regard indee...

I say so, in the same way natural selection evidence suggests that reproduction, is a survival of species imperative. If there are more of us existing...

You seem reluctant to find empathy for desperate people who do desperate things and understand why cryonics has it's adherents. I think it probably is...

Forgiveness is not divine but it is humanist, so as a humanist, its part of my remit. :grin: I am not a philosopher but I am interested in the views o...

Yeah, I meant to type 'cannot' be known, sorry, but I don't value your example, as we can predict the weather in 6 months based on such as, last years...

I think the phrase 'granting wishes' in the context you use it, is poorly chosen mockery of the (perhaps forlorn) hopes of currently live people, who ...

Ok, so you are just referring to what quarks and electrons might do as fundamental combinatorials, yes? You are using 'immaterial' as a reference to '...

So have women, black people, gender variant people, indigenous tribal peoples, etc, etc and for just as long as Jewish people or much longer, in the c...

Well, the exchange between us here seems to consolidate around what credence level either of us assigns to the existence of and value of any reference...

Which parts ring true?

But why would an omniscient make such an irrational statement about the weather on July 1st 2023? An omniscient knows what the weather will be on that...

What do you mean by 'something less specific?' If we met another alien race and we 'pooled' our science instead of trying to wipe each other out, woul...

You are just referring to practicality here. The wish to die only when YOU want to, is very strong in most humans, including myself. The pragmatic opi...

You don't need to be Jewish to qualify. You would have to explain yourself much more. What caused you to choose to live life as a curse. You can't hea...

He now regrets the title 'selfish gene,' and has stated many times that it was an unwise choice. Altruism, as demonstrated in many species, does indee...

You make me sad for you sometimes. I can only send you a virtual hug! I wish I could make you see how wonderful life is, with all its shortfalls and s...

Yep and having as much personal control over such choices is what I champion. :lol: There are many clever folks out there who have many ways to attemp...

Such teleology, only has value from the perspective of human intent and purpose, through their imposition of selective evolution via such tech as gene...

Well, that's what we are discussing. 'Immaterial,' has no demonstrable existent, if it is being used to propose something supernatural. You are employ...

Yes, as it is constantly demonstrated by humans (as the best examples) and other Earth species to a lesser degree. I don't think much of IQ testing. I...

Ok, but again we diverge here, as I give no credence or value to the Platonic concept of ideal or perfect forms. I refer to Platonic forms described i...

Ok. I see where you are coming from now. I am not familiar with all you mentioned. I have heard of a Dyson sphere, (a structure that completely encomp...

I think it IS absolutely, an issue of whether to live or die. We have very little control over that issue at the moment. Future science may offer an i...

The wise fool is just a contradiction in terms imo. I like the fact that you use the term singularity, more as an indication of a pivotal point of a c...

I had read some of your stuff at https://bothandblog6.enformationism.info/page80.html. Information as a universal fundamental has to be a credible pos...

Why do you score out this one? Is it because you think it's so far away or impossible?

Yes, change continues, a system which has been performing the same input, process and output, even for millennia, can end, and be replaced/updated. I ...

I think my use of the term asymptotic is important in my suggested human aspirations towards omniscience. I also think my suggestion of considering th...

In my OP, I think I asked a bunch of questions rather than tried to 'stamp' any definitive premise. I am moving in the direction of hypothesis, yes. I...

I consider cryonics a valid act of desperation. Similar to pharaohs who had their bodies embalmed, inside large pyramids etc. due to individual 'hope ...

I think we should unite with Andromeda, in peace, and with common cause to ensure that the unison is benevolent to all involved.

Evolution through natural selection is our heritage, not our moral compass. Human intellect, intent, purpose and rationale, has the ability to legisla...

:clap: Ok. Based on what @"jgill" posted, it seems my choice of words here was poor. I was basing my words on descriptions like: Quantum entanglement ...