None of what you said made any sense to me, but I am fine with that. How about feeling pain due to random circumstance. A person that endures a lot of...
But I can experience that it is flat. I think it is a great case for experience not being knowledge. Maybe to your definition of knowledge. If everyth...
Nah, I can believe something based on other beliefs. I believe it will snow because I believe someone said so to me earlier. Knowing is not a requirem...
I do not believe it because I know it. I am above the threshold of certainty that is indicated by the word "believing". If you suggest that I merely b...
"absurd" why? Knowing is simply a degree higher on the scale of certainty . If my certainty drops from having known something then I may start believi...
When I say I "know" something I mean that I am highly confident, not 100% certain. So yes, my "knowing" does contain a degree of uncertainty. No, to m...
Not to me. The term “uncertain” would indicate 5-95% certainty. "Certain" would be 95-100%. Not to me, knowing is a step above believing. I think that...
This would defeat my purpose here entirely. I do not enjoy writing. I would not want to invest the time if the writing is not good enough. Although "k...
Here are my definitions. The exact % is arbitrary. Knowing something indicates a certainty of 95-100% Believing something indicates a certainty of 50-...
Being the happiest and most well-educated country on earth are big claims. If any other country thought that could lay claim to the same, they would d...
They could be. I trust them because I see little reason to present false data in this case and I do not think that researchers are dumb. Also, if it w...
It is still a result that can be known. I don't see why there would be some agenda to falsify this particular information. Guess we could visit Finlan...
Being likable does not make one right. Look no further than science and the people that perform it. They are the ones who find out what is "illusion" ...
Thinking more on it, I believe I was semi wrong. Both free will and responsibility are tied to the level you operate on. And if you are talking about ...
In the case of us having no free will: Responsibility would be a tool to help tie a person to an outcome. Good or bad. A homicidal murderer running lo...
Its relative. We may be machines, but we then live in a world of machines. Responsibility is just another tool that lets us function in larger groups,...
"I think, therefore I am" is, to me, the best foundation of logic that has ever been written. I am glad he did translate it. I just do not think it is...
Does Superdeterminism save Quantum Mechanics? Or does it kill free will and destroy science? I do not know if this is true or not but it is relevant t...
Finland is known for delaying grading until the kids are 13-14 years old. And they are showing good results in international rankings. But grades are ...
If our our creator intended for us to have free will and make our own purpose then us making our own purpose is also us fulfilling the creators purpos...
And your free will was not given to you? Do you know that your will is not governed by something greater? If free will is the one thing that is your o...
If everything one is, is given to one from someone else, does that not also give one the right to claim any of that as oneself? Genetically you are ha...
We could all be puppets playing out a role given to us. But while we live in a world of puppets, we all remain real to each other, and so do our motiv...
Only if you assume some cosmic objective definition of measurement. The scoring going on here is a measurement of the average enjoyment of the average...
If someone else come pops in later and only has time to read one story, and they want to read the best one. How should we help them? Why is scoring fa...
A lot of questions asked and assumptions made here. Is "What do We Mean By “The Meaning of Life”?" what you want us to focus on or was that just a pre...
Seems it is called Law of large numbers "the average of the results obtained from a large number of independent and identical random samples converges...
Maybe you can shed some light as to why massed randomness seems so ordered. Edit: I flagged your comment above, I don't know what that does or how to ...
A coin flip is random, yet its uniform distribution is 50% heads and 50% tails. If you flip it once the results will be extreme, it will be either 100...
A bell curve is one type of uniform distribution, yes. The interesting thing is that the distribution gets more uniform the more random events you add...
I remember having a hard time getting over this fact when I learnt about probability: The larger the pool of random choices, the more uniform the resu...
Well, if you ever want to communicate with the general population it would be easier to use words as they define them rather than having to preface yo...
In math we do have different degrees to the vastness of infinities. Some infinities are bigger than others and they can be used to cancel each other o...
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