I think that the horrors of Marxism naturally followed from their doctrine. Same for Nazism. There was absolutely nothing unexpected to what happened....
A good number of people successfully managed to get out of the Soviet Union before it was too late. Same for Nazi Germany. SE Asia -- where I am now -...
I believe that there is always someone who is going to benefit from what they do, because otherwise, they wouldn't do it. Seriously, otherwise they wo...
There are quite a few psychiatrists who write in their posts that in their experience spirituality truly assists with mental issues such as depression...
I am a digital nomad slash nomad capitalist. A country is to me just an alternative jurisdiction competing with 200+ other ones. I have no stake in an...
I am not necessarily a historicist, even though I certainly acknowledge the importance of history. I have a very simplistic view on politics. At the t...
The ruling mafia wants more power. Welcome to the real world. The feudal lords are a good example of how society really works. In comparison, the bour...
Is this meant to be practical advice? They can keep you afloat while you evaluate your options. Sometimes it is indeed preferable to start all over ag...
I think that Stalin spectacularly succeeded because he had as much power or even more so than the imperial feudal lords that he replaced. The goal of ...
The goal of the system is not the pursuit of happiness. Karl Marx correctly pointed out that the ruling mafia has the political power and is therefore...
I personally think that Marx misunderstood who exactly was going to benefit from the revolution. He argued that the proletariat would. Of course, the ...
People at the bottom of society or other vulnerable individuals do not always choose to suffer from deep mental anguish. Their social or financial cir...
In absence of spirituality, generalized pessimism is a very valid rational answer. It is now even the norm in the most atheist country on earth, China...
You are probably too impatient. A century or two is nothing in the history of mankind. The ruling oligarchy has always owned and controlled the means ...
This merely means that you cannot make use of spirituality to address deep mental anguish. If you ever happen to need it, it will not be available to ...
Unlike philosophy, spirituality is not related to rational inquiry. Spirituality is a non-rational tool to stimulate survival instinct by connecting t...
Philosophy cannot replace spirituality. In fact, philosophy causes a lot of damage whenever it tries. What the poor and other people in desperate situ...
Redistribution is never from the (truly) rich to the poor. The ruling mafia will never use its power to redistribute away from itself. That is just a ...
It generally does happen. Two social classes always exist. The ruling mafia, by virtue of its power, will always top the income ladder. It does not ma...
A utopian society, or more generally, a utopian universe is not possible. The answer to this question is spiritual, however, and not rational. Any att...
Quite a bit of philosophy from antiquity is still perfectly valid. I don't believe that it will ever be overturned. But then again, the environment ha...
Here we go again. Have you found a job already? Or are you going to keep living off your mother's welfare benefits? Is there anything that you can do,...
Aristotle wrote interesting things which were essentially about recursive algorithms. If an algorithm f(n) has two parts: func f(n) { part1(n); part2(...
There are entire areas in philosophy that are dominant elsewhere but will never get mentioned in a philosophy department. For example: There is nothin...
Mathematics does not have direct practical applications, mostly by design so. That is often a good thing, but it also means that the academic consensu...
The actual or detailed particulars of spirituality do not matter in this context. The only question is: Does his capacity to spirituality help the suf...
In very difficult circumstances, there is no rational justification for the choice to keep carrying on, instead of throwing in the towel on life itsel...
Rationality is a tool. Spirituality is another tool. If your only tool is a hammer, then the whole world will start looking like a nail. Rationality i...
Because of the vagaries of life, people may end up in need of faith and hope. The ability to keep going will then have to come from a spiritual source...
I am probably not the right person for electronic freedom outreach or advocacy. The undisputed ideological admiral ship of the free software world for...
You can counter this practice by rejecting the use of proprietary software and by insisting on reproducible-build free and open-source software only. ...
Zakaat is in principle not enforced by government (even though in some countries it loosely is) but by religious self-discipline. If you don't want to...
This post is not about you. It is about Godel numbering being indicative of philosophical textual content. I haven't been able to find a converter of ...
Someone who never does anything else besides criticizing others, will inevitably have serious problems hanging on to a job. It's the same situation as...
Yes, agreed. It may often be necessary to analyze the situation again, until you can finally blame yourself instead of the environment or other people...
Yes. It points to the existing practice of using specialized engines for object recognition. Music recognition, for example, is carried out with other...
There is no definition for the term philosophy. There is merely a collection of partially failed attempts. My own definition may be suitable for compu...
It is about metaphilosophy and computational philosophy based on the philosophy of mathematics. For you, however, every thread is ultimately always ab...
Of course, it doesn't. First-order logic -- in absence of arithmetic -- cannot express sentences about its own sentences. It requires Godel numbering ...
If you ask ChatGPT about face detection, it will advise you to try OpenCV. https://medium.com/@vdkolekar/face-detection-implementation-using-chatgpt-6...
Actually, they are. It is not in the form of natural language sentences, but in the form of a numerical data structure. For example, in the following ...
One major problem with any definition for philosophy is the following remark: There is no definition for philosophy. There is only a collection of par...
The idea revolves around a statement making use of the Godel numbering capability in its language to refer to another statement or even to itself. Thi...
The term can be traced back to Russell's criticism on Frege's publication on the foundations of mathematics: It is Godel's incompleteness theorem (193...
I actually did not invent the term "foundational crisis of mathematics" by myself: They even write entire books about the foundational crisis of mathe...
It was a direct answer to your question. Your question about dog behavior may indeed not be directly relevant to the definition of philosophy. All of ...
They have managed to convince the Ministry of Health that the project is worth doing and therefore worthwhile for them to fund it. The thing with gran...
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