No human being is an island. These ideas didn't magically pop into Greta's head from nowhere. She is influenced and continues to be under influence by...
Tim Wood, it's not that i'm necessarily condoning that behaviour, I'm just saying this is the way it goes. If you enter the political arena and take a...
Ofcourse this debate is ideological. There are two sperate things here. One is the question whether climate is changing and what the causes and effect...
One thing that is missing in your rant is maybe the social/moral dimension. Intelligence relies on doubting. You only get smart by questioning things ...
But who decides what is important? Who get's to determine what is valuable. The killer and murderer will think his life has value… You seem to be impl...
"Intrinsic value" is a bit of a problematic concept. We value things, or give a value to somethings as human beings. There's nothing really intrinsica...
Yeah I got that, but you wanted to add "conventionally considered" because you seemed to think that was necessary to make some kind of distinction the...
Right, 'It's morally permissible to do x' in the mouth of someone, is then the expression of the moral feelings of that someone. 'It was morally permi...
I'm sure Terrapin Station can answer for himself, but I do want to give you my answer too because I think it's an important question, and our meta-eth...
Political and military action usually isn't decided by one person. There may be exceptions sure (especially for smaller interventions), but usually th...
Ideally yes, I would certainly prefer it if the world could mature in such a way that this is a viable strategy. But I don't know if, historically, th...
It think governments allways try to do what is in their best interest of their country in the first place (as opposed doing things that are in the int...
To clarify, I'm not saying I believe it's true, I'm saying a lot of people believe it's true. I'm with you on this, I think, that true and false don't...
Sure. I happen to think it's a vital aspect though if you want to understand how morality and the world works. It's also the reason why a lot of peopl...
And.... people agree on certain dispositions and enforce those agreements. Those agreements in turn influence what moral stances people adopt. Moral s...
Why do we think US interventionism has been anything but America first? Isolationism or interventionism is only a matter of strategy on how to best at...
Yes I think it was a bit of politcial postering mostly… in reaction to Trump saying all kinds of things like treatening to cancel the nato-agreement i...
None of that matters all that much, we come from the same catholic cultural root. And seriously, Europe borrowed most of it's cultural icons from Russ...
I don't think that will change that easily. I think a lot of people have known for a very long time what the US was up to… the Marshal Plan wasn't exa...
I'd start from the opposite assumption, that future people have as much standing as currently existing people, in theory at least. Because if you woul...
Some things appear to be kind of cyclical, some are definitely not, like say technological progress. I didn't mean to imply some sort of general deter...
I think, on the face of, it doesn't imply that, there's nothing in the picture that says that that is the only contributing factor. And there's certai...
I think the US will be fine. Economic power determines geo-political power, because among other things, it funds the military. And a strong military d...
Yes, this was Humes point, or one of his many points... that we want to see causes even if they are not necessarily there in world. That's a psycholog...
I'm pretty sure this is just wrong, the apple does falls to the ground because of curved spacetime. The surface of the earth is not excluded from Eins...
How could you possibly know this, are you a theoretical physicist? Even they don't know if unification is possible or not. Sean Carroll thinks "quanti...
You're ignoring the important point, that Hume didn't say what you think he said. Hume only made a sceptical argument about Causation, namely that (on...
You are arguing against a strawmen, Hume didn't deny the world can be split up into causes and effects for practical purposes,... he was after capital...
It is a complex problem because self-labelling also becomes a factor... i.e. it's not merely true because "social forces" make it true, but also becau...
Brexit is about sovereignty I think, more then specifically neoliberalism. A bureaucratic EU that is notoriously hard to maneuver, has been a torn in ...
We don't know how long it actually took to develop live from existing complex molecules, and i'm no biologist, but yes, that seems a plausible hypothe...
3.5 billion years ago, which is actually pretty fast after the earth became somewhat suited for life. Then it took a very long time to evolve multi ce...
Consider the following : - Abiogenisis is probably a very rare event, which may or may not require conditions that are very different from the conditi...
Ok fine... it's not that important for the discussion. What I meant was that experiments have verified the math, and that however you want to interpre...
No it's not. Here an excerpt from the link you posted in response to my first post : But—and this was Schrödinger’s point—the quantum theory of Bohr h...
I think I do, it's about quantum indeterminacy, not necessarily about the measurement problem. The absurdity is that the cat would be in a state of su...
As I allude to in my post to Artemis, there is uncertainty on different levels, yes. But on the other hand, we can be relatively certain about most th...
Shrödinger thought it was absurd, hence his cat-example yes. But nonetheless his equation has been empirically verified time and again, it really seem...
On objective reality and illusion, let's take something simple, like say a table. Is the table objectively real? Or is it the molecules the material c...
Wait a minute, what is an actual colour? Colour is the result of light reflecting in a certain way from a surface into our eyes, right? Why then would...
It is possible, Nietzsches work was an attempt at that. You 'just' need criteria, like health or life-affirmation in N's case, which you can use as a ...
The short answer is, yes, entropy is a fundamental law of the universe, and humans are part of the universe... meaning that unless we put in tons of e...
As I understand it, yes. Once a measurement has collapsed the wave-function, it is exceedingly probable that it will be observed there again. It seems...
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