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During the suffering though, this feels differently... What if the suffering continues?
May 06, 2022 at 08:03
Indeed. And your mind is trained to demand a kind of proof for a claim for which no such a proof can be given, and every proof for such a claim is red...
May 06, 2022 at 07:59
What I mean is that what we learn at school or universities is science. Math, physics, economy, chemistry, biology, etc. By law you have to go to scho...
May 06, 2022 at 07:33
Just because you can't answer is it doesn't mean there is no answer. Bye!
May 06, 2022 at 07:21
Are you a troll?
May 06, 2022 at 07:16
The question is not physical but philosophical. The physical answer states that time measures growing entropy. The chance of gas particles in one corn...
May 06, 2022 at 07:14
Well, I've told it many times already. On physics forums which stick to the status quo or the convention, and here, where little help is offered, exce...
May 06, 2022 at 06:44
That depends on it's actual nature. I think everything can actually be known. Why not? From the big bangs to the mind. But why should we want to? The ...
May 06, 2022 at 06:34
The standard view on evolution, genes or memes trying to replicate, says the purpose of life is to do exactly that. Replicating genes or memes (which,...
May 06, 2022 at 06:30
I mean the random distribution of the momenta of real particles that are inflated from the vacuum. Well, maybe not all random as they all inflate alik...
May 06, 2022 at 06:11
Yes! Kind of. The vacuum contains particles fluctuating in time and from them forward time emerged, before the big inflation.
May 06, 2022 at 05:49
I guess you mean "Undercover"? The guy playing the major role, Frank Lammers, plays the role of the silly family father in a commercial for a supermar...
May 06, 2022 at 05:42
My default position was that science has the answers. But it hasn't, in principle. So now my default position is science plus gods. They provide the r...
May 06, 2022 at 05:10
With me, it's exactly the opposite. I studied physics and was tought in the books that all can be explained by physical processes (the university was ...
May 06, 2022 at 05:07
:lol: What stones do you make? I do treetrunks, which I found out after painting and photographing, is really rewarding. Nature's, around the corner, ...
May 06, 2022 at 04:55
If you have learned a math formula, like a quadratic equation, that's because you saw one or invented one in your inner world. Both the physical world...
May 06, 2022 at 04:51
:lol: Well, at least you make me laugh! Gnight!
May 06, 2022 at 00:51
Are you my mirror image...? Damned, it looks so. Seems I read my own writing. Scarry! :grin: Speaking of time... Its almost three in the night here......
May 06, 2022 at 00:47
Here, I don't agree. A memory is an active reconstruction of an experience you had. Learning is creating the right substrate for memories to be recons...
May 06, 2022 at 00:33
You have 19 other laws? Interesting thoughts. I agree, more or less. The inner universe can simulate every process in the outer, physical world. We ca...
May 06, 2022 at 00:29
I couldn't agree more! Do you need a chip replacement?
May 06, 2022 at 00:18
The point is, I don't use arguments. A belief is not based on argument. It's based on reason.
May 06, 2022 at 00:12
I am honest. With myself and with you. Children are honest. That's gotta do with science, not gods. If they don't wanna belief in gods, it's completel...
May 06, 2022 at 00:06
But not back to time zero...
May 05, 2022 at 23:42
Yes. All processes are reversible on the small level. But try to reverse it all. You won't get it done! That's why the laws of thermodynamics are time...
May 05, 2022 at 23:40
:lol: And sometimes, when I clap my hands and yell: SILENCE! I have seen a guy in English parliament smashing his writchwatch! Time's up!
May 05, 2022 at 23:30
No, it's not that I don't like references, but Alkis is right that a lot philosophical conversation is about what other philosophers say. Which is goo...
May 05, 2022 at 23:28
I don't know. But I do know Smolin.
May 05, 2022 at 23:23
Do you mean Smolen or Smolin?
May 05, 2022 at 23:19
Yes. But Im not trying to convince you. If you dont believe it then it's up to you. If I would use my believe to teach you morals, it would be differe...
May 05, 2022 at 23:12
The clock can't be stopped. There is no configuration of objects that stays the same forever. The global arrangement of matter always moves in one dir...
May 05, 2022 at 23:06
Well, not for everything. Only for the existence of the universe... which is pretty much everything... I just can't imagine we are the result of coinc...
May 05, 2022 at 22:56
Better one even! :grin:
May 05, 2022 at 22:45
Ha! Good one!
May 05, 2022 at 22:44
Sounds reasonable! I wished I could see it like that. Indeed, when all life has gone, time and space are gone. Only black silence... And then... what'...
May 05, 2022 at 22:39
Neither do I. But they showed themselves. I can't help it. Flober can tell you they don't exist but then he's lying. Did you ask him proof?
May 05, 2022 at 22:32
The existence of the universe is sufficient proof for me. Science offers no reason, only mechanisms. The mechanisms and the material it offers can't p...
May 05, 2022 at 22:20
I don't make up claims about the ontology of the material universe. Science investigates that universe and material is bound to certain behavior. But ...
May 05, 2022 at 22:15
Well said! :up:
May 05, 2022 at 22:04
I believe they do on a base of scientific knowledge. They provide a reason for existence.
May 05, 2022 at 22:03
You believe in trolls? Did the gods tell you in a dream they don't exist? How did they tell you if they don't exist?
May 05, 2022 at 22:01
I make many scientific claims. They need evidence. But gods are no scientific claim. They don't need evidence. Believe would not be believe anymore wi...
May 05, 2022 at 21:53
You promote gods don't exist. Why should I prove them in the first place? But if you want. They cant show themselves directly. That would fuck up the ...
May 05, 2022 at 21:48
How's the guitar play? :smile:
May 05, 2022 at 21:41
0 Yes. The clock to capture time with, is a human invention. But time itself, the irreversible natural processes flow from less to more global entropy...
May 05, 2022 at 21:39
It's reversed time. But why isn't this actually happening? It could have been like that. Just reverse all motion. Why was it set in motion like it has...
May 05, 2022 at 21:34
The burden is on you, dear Nickolast. Try to disprove your claim. You can't.
May 05, 2022 at 21:33
Yes you have. You consider them non existent, and just to be safe you say that might evidence show up you believe in them. Well, you need the evidence...
May 05, 2022 at 21:31
Yes, arguments from ignorance. The usual reply. I have heard the same thing from others. But the fact is, I argue from knowledge of the cosmos. I know...
May 05, 2022 at 21:28
Yes, I have read that a 1000 times already. But not being observed doesn't mean the virtual particles don't exist. The mathematical description of a v...
May 05, 2022 at 21:24