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trogdor

['Member']Joined: April 10, 2022 at 18:12Last active: November 21, 2023 at 15:461 discussions19 comments

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Yes! I've been trying for a while now to create a short comprehensive thesis, but I have a hard time finding the right one or I sound like a 15 year o...
December 30, 2022 at 23:12
Yes, that is the liberalistic argument. And I support it. But surely also something else must be responsible for this hypothetical bad dooers bad deed...
December 30, 2022 at 22:21
That kind of the point. I have a hard time wrapping my head around this. I agree the argument that it takes away responsibility is a bad one. One of t...
December 30, 2022 at 21:51
Yeah this is probably it. He probably ment that he could understand everyone on some animal level, it was a wierd dynamic and he was very macho. Sorry...
December 30, 2022 at 15:10
I mean, if you move a rock. That is manipulation of the object. If someone forces you to move the rock, that's also that (causality right?). Maybe i'm...
December 30, 2022 at 12:43
One could argue that a theory of everything can explain everything and why everything is. But the question will always be what lies beyond that. At th...
December 15, 2022 at 16:58
I see, white blood cells. What you are describing exists if you think it does. It's basically metaphysics vs materialism (is the thought real or the m...
December 15, 2022 at 02:11
So Stalin for example is unreasonable, a problem, anti-capitalist, schizo and represents the age before capitalism. I see these essences in the may 68...
December 12, 2022 at 12:53
It was not my intention to discourage you from philosophizing btw! I'm just having a hard time following some of your train of thought and that's on m...
December 11, 2022 at 22:26
Sorry, I came home after some heavy drinking when I wrote that. What I'm saying is; You should probably use a synonym. I don't trust your understandin...
December 11, 2022 at 21:38
Then your should not be basing your entire string of thought on it.. It becomes confusing and comes of as a bit dumb/ignorant. This reminds me of the ...
December 11, 2022 at 02:16
A theory of everything with one entity is basically a religious text like the Bible. It explains all phenomenon yes? Haven't read it. All from ethics ...
April 20, 2022 at 23:02
I view it as a question of pragmatism in https://www.roma1.infn.it/~anzel/answer.html. Like the machine doesn’t need to truly know everything it just ...
April 15, 2022 at 11:14
Perhaps the natural sciences can't yet but that is not their purpose. In the social sciences on the other hand there have been attempts to construct e...
April 14, 2022 at 08:42
Reading another thread i realize what i ment to write was omniscient, omnicience. I mean from a rationell point of view. Yes but can a machine truley ...
April 14, 2022 at 08:42
"In other words, we would understand more than a complex pile of isolated facts..." To add to this: facts are true because they work. Newton's physics...
April 12, 2022 at 07:50
Pragmatic rhetorical language theoretical philosophical text for you! (university stuff) I don’t know a lot about how words came about but I do know a...
April 12, 2022 at 07:50
I've met people with 140+ IQ who were dumb as rocks. Maybe the human drive to categorize everything leaks on to actual humans as well (RIP Carl Linnae...
April 12, 2022 at 07:50
What should we do about the Spartans Nicholas, we just voted 50/50? NO! I’m going to sit here and eat my olives. -Two greeks 300bc. It’s not a stretch...
April 12, 2022 at 07:50