I don't see the clear distinction of a welfare state where the citizens eschew responsibility for the welfare of the public. Generally, governments th...
This question doesn't make sense to me. If space can bend, what is the space that it is bending in? If there is no space outside of it, then there is ...
Years ago as a math tutor in college, I saw first hand that intelligence is mufti-dimensional. You cannot squish it down to a single metric. Different...
It might be helpful to be more specific. For example: "mind type" - Do you mean a human brain, with the biological structure and limits of the hypothe...
Nothing in relativity or quantum mechanics indicates that the Planck length (and Planck time) are some kind of limit to the scale of the universe. It ...
When you say "the meaning of life is peace", do you really mean "what I want in life is peace"? I think it could be argued that life is detrimental to...
The analogy I often use is with water pipes. Voltage corresponds to the water pressure in the pipe, while amps corresponds with the rate of water flow...
I think you are not alone in finding it odd, but that is what is confirmed by the famous "double slit experiment". There are different variations of t...
I think what you mean by "logic" here is known irrefutable facts. Couldn't I say that I don't know anything other than this fact (that I don't know an...
For me, it seems that to tell a lie, the information you are dispensing must meet two requirements: 1. It is incorrect. 2. It was your intention for i...
As a child, I tortured myself trying to figure out the causality problem: how anything could exist at all. I wondered that we are stuck with a nothing...
I don't think there will be no upper bound with technological development. It will be limited by whatever is possible by the laws of physics. If we do...
Is there anything that is not statistically uncommon (or "unnatural", or "weird", or whatever terminology we want to use for it) in some way? We would...
Are you sure we can resist our inclinations? When I was a child, I concluded that you cannot willingly choose to do something other than what you most...
I'll defer to others for specific answers, but for many of those, if they were not in balance, then there would be instability. If the laws of physics...
All we know is our experience of the past (as memories) and the future (as anticipation) in this current moment. We don't know that either the past or...
As a child, I tortured myself trying to understand how this universe exists (create something out of nothing, or something always was...). That led me...
You don't seem to understand me. It's possible that I was not clear, given that is a common tendency with me. :) But, I was not claiming that there ar...
I am puzzled by your discussion. At the 20,000ft level, I read it like so: 1. There are things we don't know about the universe. 2. Therefore, it must...
I think that in these discussions it really isn't about defining exactly what it is. It seems to me these discussions are more about triggered emotion...
How is anything clearly immoral? Morality is heavily nuanced by our values and our psychology. What is immoral to one person may be considered moral b...
I think we can rule out the option that everything that exists was designed or intended to be this way, as that implies there is something in addition...
Re: "Homosexuality is contrary to evolution since it does not reproduce itself biologically." Assuming this is true (I recall reading articles about e...
Perhaps the mysterious decision making process of free will is more of an illusion than we realize? Can you think of a time when you willingly chose a...
Oh this thread covers so much, but back to your original topic, the problem of where did something come from, and what is nothing? I spent years of my...
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