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bear in mind that Elon Musk and the people like him are a product of too much sci-fi reading, too much ego inflation, and possibly the influence of ma...

turquoise is not really a colour. As you know, real colours are: blue, green, and red. Unfortunately, mammals lost colour discrimination to different ...

"The use of the gun must only be tolerated when the use of the pen is useless". Nuncamissa, do you realize that this statement is in line with "the en...

yes, your arguments are sound, and perhaps I´m being too cynical or pessimistic. I agree that corruption is by definition, not the best way to deal wi...

yes, blessings and curses come together, and everything we do has good and bad consequences. That is why I trust a corrupt person in power more than I...

"Jesus died for our sins" it´s just a way of dealing with vengeful primates. It means: "you can forgive yourself, you can forgive others, and no physi...

I´m a believer, but only in love and beauty. However, I can answer your simple question_ The question of the Original Sin has been popularized, or vul...

with real science and philosophy, I really meant philosophy and science based on reason, with real arguments instead of phallacies, logic, references ...

Let´s make clear that we are only debating things to chill out and learn from others, there is no political agenda here. That is what a forum (should)...

for the purpose of the poll Michael. You are rather demanding, your dinings out must be entertaining. I consider those people, from a medical point of...

I don´t really understand what you mean by change. Reality is all about change, if it stopped just for a second, the universe would cease to exist. Th...

It is good that some women are interested in Philosophy.

I used to frequent a forum where 90% of members are female, and I found it very interesting, until my views critical with feminism and gender ideology...

those members in the forum falling under those categories are not called to vote in this poll, as there is not an option for them. There are no option...

It´s very complicated and I struggle to understand it myself. Consider your example of the suffragettes: The suffragette movement did NOT create the c...

your answer seems to be presuppose an ideal world where all choices are available and are equally costly. Can you re-think your idea to include a real...

An individual contributes an amount of chaos to society. When chaos is small, society thrives; when it grows too big, society falls apart. Population ...

there are different kinds of freedom. People usually refer to freedom of expression and political freedom, but there´s also the freedom of staying ali...

I´m a determinist, but I don´t like to have absolute certainties about things. So I´d really love to hear solid arguments in favour of non determinist...

Mathematics are made by Man, but not out of the blue, but as a response to stimuli from "outside". Phenomena happen, we react, and mathematics is a to...

My English is faulty and I appreciate your corrections! With a current, I really meant a branch or movement or school. In Spain we say corriente, as i...

you talk about Trump, or any other politician being corrupt as if it were a bad thing. Corruption, to some extend, is good in any party right or left,...

In Europe we have a higher average IQ and education, however Americans get to have a more reasonable, useful government. Angry Americans should try an...

I worked as a teacher in Primary school for some 12 years. The values I ended up with were two: responsibility and autonomy. Also, I had a value for m...

all parties who really want to reach power have to resource to populism and cheap propaganda, becouse the appeal to masses, not to a council of wise m...

there´s a big difference between representing U.S. interests in the Gulf, like any other president has done before, and actually having your president...

I wish Spain had such a "tyrannical" government. You don´t value what you have becouse you take it for granted...but imagine Trump saying that people ...

have you read her books? What exactly did she propose to re-define our view of Nature? How did she explain what makes humans and other species differe...

Identity politics. I think you misread the word, or I wrote the wrong term. Identity politics, or tribal thinking is something Dems have promoted part...

Hillary had the support of the Arabs, that are not better friends than Putin on his worst day. I think politicians do have a strong drive for their se...

If Democrats really want a better government, or one that is closer to their ideology, they should stop enjoying scapegoating the current president an...

they are accomplishments if they serve his electoral program. A program includes all the goals and more that a new president need to use as a guide of...

We just can´t have that intelligent conversation. I share your frustration entirely.

yes, biologists do use economic terms, I agree with that, I disagree in considering it a positive thing. Astrology is not so bad; consider how people ...

so it´s all part of his character then, the persona he has created to communicate with his followers and haters. Whatever he says in his famous tweets...

I don´t see why you use "subjective" as synonym with "mental". Mental contents have a degree of objectivity, the part of them that is shared or sharea...

are you sure? What is objective then in philosophy? This is my understanding of the word: Objective seems to refer to objects of our mind, images we f...

I´m not an American and if I were I´d still would not vote; so I do not have to make my mind on Trump. However, I find him a very interesting characte...

I don´t think reading about what a group has to say about themselves is the best way to know what they really are about. That´s only their discourse, ...

maybe you are all in the right, and numbers are the way we construct our experiences dealing with a real underlying reality.

I might not be well informed about Black Lives Matter then. I thought they had a racial, victimist, whites are to blame, approach to social issues. Ex...

why do people hate Trump in the U.S.? Is it becouse you are weary of him, after so many years in the spotlight and all those appearances in tv shows? ...

I have a personal rule of thumb to understand subjective vs objective. I replace "objective" by "shared" and everything makes more sense. For example,...

you are a lucky man, becouse such evidence exist. Please do your own research about what neuroscience and psychology have learnt on this very issue. I...

there is no way, there´s always a leap of faith. Robots work becouse they don´t doubt and take things for granted; if they could really think things t...

it was a wrong move, with the best intention. Hell would be a pitiful place without all those good intentions...

Trump, if he is as smart as he claims, surely can learn from the army that real torture is no longer useful, and belongs to the past or barbaric regio...

I might be wrong, since I I´ve never been in the U.S., but I think many people see "white supremacism" as less an issue than "non-white supremacism", ...

If are not an economist, surely I can explain myself better. To bear in mind what findings in other sciences mean for your field is not reductionist; ...

you need to try to define numbers a little more so that people can take a stand. The current notions of what numbers are, derive from accounting, book...