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I agree.

I don't have a ground floor. I have a very principled lack of ground floor. It sounds like you're saying you understand Special Relativity, you just t...

Einstein said all motion is relative to a chosen frame of reference. You declare a point to be unchanging at the same time you perceive change. It's n...

Can there be change without stasis? Aren't they two sides of the same coin?

Imagine a realm of pure sensation. Think of it as a dark ocean and the mind is a flashlight, bringing this in view, focusing on that sound, or just re...

I think the 10 years of talking to yourself made it a word, though as you say, of somewhat dubious meaning. The group who hears the recordings will de...

I knew a guy named Don Mumy. He worked in a cave with water dripping down the walls. He always talked on two phones at the same time and he owned a 19...

So you're saying the whole project would implode.

We could genetically engineer shrimp so they're about 3 feet across. One shrimp would feed a whole family. Or if we made shrimps as big as cows, you c...

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I read a biography of Catherine a long time ago. I'd love to go. Some other lifetime. :smile:

Maybe. I don't know.

It's a quote from a french movie called Pandemonium. https://resizing.flixster.com/PIEvsuZptzrTwBvx9sm2-4OFG7o=/206x305/v2/https://resizing.flixster.c...

I don't know, but I betcha I know what color this building is painted: it's goluboy. This is Catherine's Palace in St. Petersburg. https://travelcultu...

I agree you can see them. Without the numbers, you would have a harder time picking one out reliably. Some people would be able to do it. Some couldn'...

I think it's more that naming helps fix the mind on something, and remember it. If your visual field is filled with color, you'll remember the aspects...

Humanity is evil by nature and must atone for its sins.

Exactly. The far right and left have become so similar that we might expect to start seeing them voting as a block against the establishment, represen...

Yeah. For the most part, the far right is not interested in reform. They believe the establishment has failed.

Criticisms from Dark Enlightenment people aren't supposed to accomplish anything. The downside to wokism is viewed as self-correcting, so if anything,...

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I think English speakers have the same thing with pink and red. It's hard to grasp that pink is light red because we never call it that. We have poten...

The human race needs that too. We temper one another.

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If it's inevitable, we should value all the more the restraint our conservative nature gives us: first, do no harm.

Fair enough. Wasn't your point that lobotomy lead to progress, and so is to some extent redeemed by that? And likewise, the mistakes made while transi...

Yes. Have you read much about the advent of transitioning pre-pubescent people?

We aren't going to be making progress on transitioning youths. Both the US and the UK (the two countries that mysteriously became manic about it) have...

Imagine that we decide to become woke about the issue of vaccines. There is controversy. It's being said that we've slept long enough, allowing these ...

It comes with a cost if it's joined to aggressive social engineering. The cost is unnecessary pain and suffering as we learn from our mistakes and try...

I think the problem is that the interests and needs of young trans people was created by woke culture. We now know that gender dyphoria is not a sign ...

Do you think of support for trans youths as something that was previously overlooked? Many (both right and progressive) now see it as a problem create...

Lord, won't you buy me a color TV?

It makes sense to me.

It's just a way to refer to the part of consciousness that isn't covered by functionality.

Life is suffering because consciousness depends on a story arc in which pain and suffering is overcome. The end of the story is the resolution. Satisf...

But if you're talking to a computer, you aren't talking to the program. The program is formal. Strictly speaking, your voice is being sampled and that...

It means some drugs will cost more. I guess the goal would be to inspire more pharmaceutical production in the US.

Yes. It doesn't follow that the answer to my question is identical my subsequent behavior. That doesn't even make sense.

Their act of rating their pain is not the same thing as what I'm going to do with the information. They have no idea what I'm going to do with it. So ...

I'm not sure how this comes in for a landing in the real world. I don't think of pain as an object, but I regularly ask people to rate their pain and/...

What is truth?

There's a big sign near my work place that was once a Trump campaign poster. People keep painting new stuff over it in a kind of billboard war. Today'...

It's a state, not a territory.

I think in my world there are opposing ideologies that both justify aspects of the status quo. Sometimes it seems like the real difference is just a m...

Maybe sometimes trying on someone else's ideology would help. By help, I just mean loosen the grip of my own ideas so I might see something I've been ...

Maybe kin to ND would be trying to see the world without an ideological lens?

It comes from Neoplatonism. These days we call it mysticism.

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