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Comments on the Second Meditation: For Descartes, a certain truth is one that can't be doubted. It's as if there's a spectrum with absolute certainty ...

Cool. Looking forward to your comments.

There's a theory that the queen of an ant colony is the colony's sex organ. The colony is a single individual with semi-autonomous parts. Your body ha...

I thought that coffee tasted kind of ashy.

Thanks for moving ahead. I was working. :grin: I agree. It's not an argument. He's not trying to persuade anyone. An argument would be out of place be...

I hope not. I shot a few nuclear missiles at it. Is one of the moderators missing?

The murder hornets are mostly a danger to honey bees, as if they needed more stress. I saw some gigantic hornets last summer, but after careful googli...

I explained it a long time ago and you said it sounded like dog biscuits. But it has cranberries, almonds, pepitos, and oatmeal in it. It's really goo...

There's a deli near me that makes really good baked apples. It's like the inside of an apple pie without the crust. It's really good. I sprinkle crumb...

The Earth's first predator

For some people, individuality is seen as evil. Not sure why. Some would go so far as to claim that individuality is an illusion, that all there is is...

Yes. And then there's Meno's paradox: I think there might be something like latent knowledge, maybe part of the structure of mental processing, that d...

Trippy.

I think it would just resist quantization. The universe has no size. We can probably only guage the extent of a person's knowledge about a certain top...

Oh, good. They're suspended in little bubbles.

True. :cool:

I now turn to the imprisoning darkness of the problems you've raised.

Some would say knowledge is identical to actions (or inaction as the case may be.) Everything either acts or doesn't, so basically the size of Knowled...

Thanks for posting from Meditation 2. I just wanted to comment on this last portion of the first Meditation before moving on: @"Manuel" Notice how he'...

Another thing aristocracy has in common with liberal democracy is that both find that depriving the common people so they're on the verge of dying fro...

I've done a citizen's ban on you, by the way. I talked to you about your behavior and just couldn't get through to you. So, don't whine because I won'...

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Free your mind. The rest will follow.

Or you can be realistic about the times you live in and recognize that your time on this little rock is short. How do you want to spend it? And do it....

True. The government took the place of the aristocracy. To the extent that leftists want the government to ensure (enforce) social welfare, they're al...

This is a quick Wikipedia article on the medieval conception of God.

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:up: Next in the first Meditation, he presents this argument for why I might be wrong about "2+5=7" In modern language, he's just saying that it's met...

I really like the tempo of that performance. Some people play it really slowly or quickly. In this performance the notes seem to be describing a semi-...

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https://youtu.be/Qr4azoVLqL0

Next is Descartes' reasoning for why he could be wrong about whether the hand in front of him is his hand: So don't really have to be a madman to doub...

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But when we ask the world questions, like: is that a star I sense? Or an airplane? We want the world to speak, not our own intellects. All the human t...

So you choose to be like all the rest. No integrity. You stand for nothing. Jeese.

You supported the system back when he'd never been convicted of anything. Now you're saying he was convicted because he's Trump. Have a little integri...

Phenomenologically, it seems like the self and the world are two poles of sensation. if you look out the window, notice how you frame the experience a...

All fascinating! Do you think that what we call religion is one of ways we carry information about the environment without having to physically adapt?...

We ask the world questions with our senses. We listen more closely, peer with squinted eyes. We feel for texture. Is that a falling star or an airplan...

Absolutely. He goes a step at a time. He starts with this: The things I believe to be true were learned through the senses. But there have been times ...

I'm glad you're coming to it with an open mind. Continuing the first meditation: "Whatever I have accepted until now as most true has come to me throu...

One of the theories for why we have twice as many female ancestors as male is that ancient warfare was the norm. It seems like the remains of ancient ...

She was amazing!

Speaking of Nietzsche, I think he'd say your approach shows that you're from a Christian culture where a premium is placed on revealing truths. Christ...

Goodness. Somehow I managed to get your goat. :razz:

So your point was that religions make people dependent on religious traditions. A religion is a set of traditions. Religions endure because people lov...

I don't think it does. It shows that this statement: is not always true. Dorothy Day represented the Catholic Church. She worked to liberate minoritie...

She's the representative of religion here. She worked to help emancipate minorities. Could you answer my question though? When did you first hear of D...

this actually made me laugh out loud

That's weird. It does to me.