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Elon Musk is developing astro-mining. It's a several trillion dollar-industry calculated as of late. Exactly, but the reason is that politicians are d...
February 08, 2019 at 17:21
You are making conclusions based on data that proves you "to know the truth", when in physics we still don't have data to complete a unification theor...
February 08, 2019 at 17:11
But we are living in a time when technology is in a whole other place than back then. The problem we face now is that technology will outperform us, t...
February 08, 2019 at 16:51
Does this even apply to the era we are in at the moment? It seems that we have flipped this on its head and that we now have a natural tendency to not...
February 08, 2019 at 16:46
I would say that epistemic responsibility is the first thing. That is a virtue to follow in the now. That responsibility demands that you do not make ...
February 08, 2019 at 15:10
I'm more with Sam Harris when it comes to moral, in that we can find parameters around moral that does not have anything to do with the reasons found ...
February 08, 2019 at 14:30
No, it is of interest, maybe this far I've seen too many objections without any relation to my actual argument, so I'm a bit on a defensive side. Thou...
February 08, 2019 at 01:53
I'm always careful using Freud as a source for definitions as most of his ideas about the mind, consciousness etc. are outdated and updated with a mor...
February 08, 2019 at 00:32
Original argument has been updated.
February 08, 2019 at 00:09
The point of that premise is not about dissecting their points, but to illuminate on alternatives to belief in which you might even be agnostic, but y...
February 08, 2019 at 00:00
You are attaching attributes to what's at the end which is assuming you know what it is and how it works, which isn't a logical conclusion to the argu...
February 07, 2019 at 22:39
That's why I am of the strong opinion that knowledge in fact-checking should be a primary thing in school. Read my new version of the argument above. ...
February 07, 2019 at 21:21
Thanks, alright let's see if this one is better: No argument has ever been able to prove the existence of God or gods through evidence. Religious beli...
February 07, 2019 at 20:38
No, they need to check the peer-reviewed material and look at falsifiable results. Standard methods for a conclusion. Because only doing the experimen...
February 07, 2019 at 19:24
The conclusion of the uncaused cause could mean anything, it could be a substance of particles that are unbound by spacetime and in that higher dimens...
February 07, 2019 at 18:58
Of course, but as my argument points out, epistemic responsibility has nothing to do with specific institutions. It is about every person. If you choo...
February 07, 2019 at 15:45
Faith was never a door, faith was the result of trying to explain the unexplainable, corrupted into ideas with less relation to rationally explaining ...
February 07, 2019 at 14:00
You haven't done a proper argument, you either intentionally or unintentionally confuse what philosophy you are discussing here. You mix metaphysical ...
February 07, 2019 at 13:48
Do you mean that "belief" in my argument is limited? Essentially here's my definition of different beliefs: A) Belief without support: You do not care...
February 07, 2019 at 13:28
There is no such thing as personal belief because everything you hold personal gets projected externally and therefore it isn't personal belief anymor...
February 07, 2019 at 13:18
Would you say that it's a logical induction that the probability of harmful belief and harmful consequences of belief is very high over a long enough ...
February 07, 2019 at 13:16
But I would argue that it did not need the science to be 100% correct. - If you believe whatever you want and that ends up killing someone, you had th...
February 07, 2019 at 01:25
Is your counter-argument that if there are any doubts to the conclusion of trying to falsify a belief you hold, then you don't need to falsify or try ...
February 07, 2019 at 00:57
Sorry, reversal of entropy so that the arrow of thermodynamics is turned around, making the energy go backwards, into the water from the high entropy ...
February 07, 2019 at 00:23
No it doesn't, it depends on the common methods of deciphering if the belief you have has any truth value. If you disagree that there are ways to find...
February 07, 2019 at 00:19
Alright, let's break them down. I mean, I may need to revise them to clarify them better. This is simple logical probability. If X has a probability o...
February 06, 2019 at 23:56
Then why ask something about something that is known to you? Almost all my premises are based on previously established arguments in philosophy. Yes, ...
February 06, 2019 at 23:32
Because adding energy require you to add energy with something, converting energy into new less form of energy along the line of thermodynamics and en...
February 06, 2019 at 23:01
You might want to look up Epistemic Responsibility first. Not really, I'm making an argument against belief that is corruptable due to the lack of wil...
February 06, 2019 at 22:53
The difference is the foundation of the ethics in this. To act like a belief is true versus understanding something is only belief and shouldn't be ta...
February 06, 2019 at 22:13
So if I believe that killing my neighbor is a good thing. Because I cannot prove this to be true its silly not to kill my neighbor? If you get caught ...
February 06, 2019 at 22:01
You are making a straw man out of this. Hypothesis = an idea about how something might be, never acted out as truth. Belief (religious, spiritual or c...
February 06, 2019 at 21:31
I fail to see how this relates? My conclusion is that belief without rational explanation or evidence that support that belief, is dangerous. Someone ...
February 06, 2019 at 21:21
Religious faith and belief, or other beliefs that are held without caring to rationally explain or have evidence for them are not the same things as s...
February 06, 2019 at 21:08
How is this an example of belief? It seems you don't know what a hypothesis is? Or how it is used in science? A scientist does not act upon a hypothes...
February 06, 2019 at 20:48
That belief as a justified existence has been made by Pascal's wager and Kierkegaard's idea that faith/belief should exist because it isn't proved. Es...
February 06, 2019 at 20:34
Do you add energy to the water and heat it up again? No, you travel back along the line of energy, backward thermodynamics. The water starts to heat i...
February 06, 2019 at 19:59
Need an example of what you mean.
February 06, 2019 at 19:34
I'm talking about Pascal's wager and Kierkegaard argument that belief is supposed to be without any evidence. This is the road most religious people t...
February 06, 2019 at 19:27
These are examples of why my conclusion seems to holds up. And it supports the idea of epistemic responsibility. Which is why belief in anything that ...
February 06, 2019 at 19:24
It's about the belief that does not have evidence or logical rational arguments behind them. If you have a scientific hypothesis, its never promoted a...
February 06, 2019 at 19:08
Essentially I mean that we think we travel in time, but we are generally traveling between different levels of energy distribution under entropy. If I...
February 06, 2019 at 15:07
At the moment we can only look at the facts that exist in general relativity, special relativity and quantum mechanics. Though, incompatible with each...
February 06, 2019 at 13:13
Art needs to be a creation with intended communication of something. It then needs to be combined with a receiver (viewer) of that communication. The ...
February 06, 2019 at 02:43
Resource-based economy has some merits, but mostly it's a very utopian idea that has big flaws in a society larger than a large tribe. I think that ba...
February 05, 2019 at 23:33
Most people handle different systems like a final system that won't change over time. This is a radical naive view of how systems exist in society. Sy...
February 05, 2019 at 22:46
Yes, I worked out methods for A.I researchers on this as well, so I'm familiar with the process in A.I research. I'm aware of the flaws because I'm no...
February 05, 2019 at 20:01
Can you explain the motivations of a higher being? It's like explaining how dimensions we cannot perceive looks, feels and behaves like, on a percepti...
February 05, 2019 at 14:26
Except you ignore biological evidence for evolutionary changes within cells, DNA and genes. If you only look at the physical form, you would assume me...
February 05, 2019 at 13:43
I'm not saying he was wrong or that the methodology wasn't advanced enough for serious science. I'm saying that science is a field which builds on top...
February 05, 2019 at 13:15