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Trust the medical profession to play with numbers in a "nonpartisan" manner. https://www.aclu.org/gallery/marijuana-arrests-numbers "According to the ...
November 23, 2016 at 16:14
Hippies like to argue that if you must do recreational drugs its better to do ones that don't tend to make you do stupid things, aren't addictive, are...
November 23, 2016 at 00:00
The entire mind and brain obey pattern matching which means consciousness is as much a physical as it is a mental process and the question is like ask...
November 22, 2016 at 17:47
Its much worse than being sent to bed without your supper.
November 22, 2016 at 17:44
Its in there under the articles of war where they say they can shoot you for disobeying an order. Only slaves can be shot for disobedience.
November 22, 2016 at 17:27
Alcohol makes people do stupid things, its addictive, kills people, AND is involved in some 80% of all fatal car accidents and violent crimes. That's ...
November 22, 2016 at 17:05
That's pretty much par for the course in any country. You join the military and Uncle Sam owns your ass. You can't even legally get a tatoo or cut you...
November 22, 2016 at 17:01
Western philosophy is better for elegant simplicity and easier error correction, while Asians do better with the humble simplicity of systems logic wh...
November 22, 2016 at 16:18
There are many moralities, but few that ever focus on their own economic roles in society. In the US we like to say we have the best justice that mone...
November 22, 2016 at 02:19
A machine that no one has built doesn't exist. A machine that someone isn't responsible for according to the law doesn't exist. Call all of existence ...
November 22, 2016 at 01:07
Anyone joining the military is automatically considered property of the state. They can legally do anything they want with you because you are no long...
November 22, 2016 at 00:39
Johnathan Swift, author of "Gulliver's Travels", wrote a scathing sarcastic newspaper editorial suggesting that the solution to the "Irish Problem" (t...
November 21, 2016 at 18:20
Wrong, by my admission they justify themselves. Other than using analogies, I can no more explain how they justify themselves then I can explain color...
November 21, 2016 at 16:10
The self-evident truth only asserts itself within the silent void that the truth determines everything including justifying itself because virtue is i...
November 21, 2016 at 02:25
The wave-function is the Face of God, or the Greater Context of the Truth if you prefer, that which none may know in all its glory. It is where the co...
November 21, 2016 at 00:42
The question is how it is possible for the same person to overrule themselves. Me, myself, and I often disagree about who is in charge around here.
November 20, 2016 at 20:02
Its empire baby, and this train ain't stopping until she derails. Trump being friendly with the Russians is just an acknowledgement that the empire is...
November 20, 2016 at 18:45
In a universal recursion of the law of identity everything including our intuition would obey pattern matching and the first five pattern matching neu...
November 20, 2016 at 18:18
Intuition arises from the intrinsic self-organizing systems logic caused by everything being context dependent for our body and neurons. It can be des...
November 20, 2016 at 16:58
Any system obeys the principle that it requires significant content and a greater context which, combined, enforces a Conservation of Creativity and E...
November 20, 2016 at 16:12
Its empire baby, and this train ain't stopping until she derails. The latest emperor is a huge fan of professional wrestling and a reality TV star in ...
November 19, 2016 at 23:56
In over ten years of my asking if anyone knows the simple distinction between a lynch mob and a democracy I have yet to hear the correct answer and ov...
November 19, 2016 at 16:26
Death is not a complete system. A car engine idling nicely is a complete system expressing the lowest possible energy state, while engine parts scatte...
November 19, 2016 at 16:20
I'm certainly no expert on Nietzche who's work has never interested me, but the two sentences make for great jokes. Often I tell people the moment I b...
November 18, 2016 at 18:21
Harmony neither acts nor reasons, and contentment is the harmony of the lowest possible energy state of the complete system, when we no longer make di...
November 18, 2016 at 16:17
I used to live near the North Carolina - Virginia boarder where the locals were famous for their gracious southern culture and elaborate child rearing...
November 18, 2016 at 00:29
To be or not to be is never the question when virtue is its own reward and wonder the beginning of wisdom, while contentment comes at no cost. A woman...
November 17, 2016 at 18:46
This is archaic thinking to say the least. A shadow is non-deterministic, yet we can still calculate its impact and origins. In fact, you can't have a...
November 17, 2016 at 16:53
My book is an attempt to bring that kind of mathematical formalism to Asian philosophy. Essentially, it assumes the law of identity goes down the near...
November 16, 2016 at 15:39
That's close to my own thinking, but was obviously written before the discovery that the second law of thermodynamics is violated more frequently the ...
November 16, 2016 at 00:41
The branching is an artifact of quantum mechanics still being formulated using classical mathematics when all the evidence, including macroscopic evid...
November 15, 2016 at 23:02
Global trade is at the point of a gun and an estimated 1,700 international conglomerates that essentially control the markets. He who dies with the mo...
November 14, 2016 at 19:14
The revolt comes as a result of our inability to occupy the lowest possible energy state. When human behavior is examined within the context of known ...
November 14, 2016 at 16:54
Existentialist angst can be interpreted as merely a dark school of comedy and what Camus is actually asking is what is the value of our emotions. If t...
November 14, 2016 at 16:28
Globalization will start to take on new meaning in the near future as environments around the world start to collapse. Already there has been a mass e...
November 14, 2016 at 00:20
I actually had a guy from Pakistan the US military was teaching nuclear reactor physics too call me a liar when I casually pointed out heavy objects d...
November 13, 2016 at 17:51
Photons have no known independent identity of their own conveying energy and information with perfect fidelity, being instantly emitted and absorbed, ...
November 13, 2016 at 00:25
Last year a mathematical study indicated that, assuming quantum Indeterminacy rules the universe, then the vanishingly tiny effects of gravitational t...
November 12, 2016 at 23:28
An infinity here, an infinity there, and pretty soon you're talking Big Science. Quantum mechanics are formulated in infinite Hilbert spaces or univer...
November 12, 2016 at 16:55
There is no such thing as a perfectly opaque substance because, if nothing else, quanta will always teleport right through anything. My own view is th...
November 12, 2016 at 16:37
Donald Hoffman is a Game theorist who spent ten years running one computer simulation after another and studying the latest revelations on the neurolo...
November 12, 2016 at 16:23
All too true, but its becoming harder to even keep up the pretense. A man who fled the former Soviet Union was asked by reporters his first impression...
November 11, 2016 at 23:32
Which is often their own undoing. Divide and conquer is simply not a viable long term internal strategy making any country ripe for invasion or other ...
November 11, 2016 at 22:35
Philosophy is defined as the study of the fundamental nature of knowledge, reality, and existence, especially when considered as an academic disciplin...
November 11, 2016 at 21:54
The Pentagon alone spends as much in a single year as most countries make. I've met dozens of generals and admirals, CIA spooks, and you name it. Once...
November 11, 2016 at 21:12
The original intent of the second amendment was that a well armed citizenry can prevent or, at least, deter any attempt at imposing tyranny. Cannons w...
November 11, 2016 at 19:29
Speculation is not philosophy and claiming nothing changes when everything demonstrably changes is not making an empirically testable hypothesis. Math...
November 11, 2016 at 16:10
You can describe it merely in terms of gibberish! Mathematical gibberish, but gibberish just the same that has no demonstrable physical reality. Along...
November 10, 2016 at 23:17
A philosophy without any reference to physical reality is just someone's fantasy. Zeno's followers merely used reductio ad absurdum arguments to enter...
November 10, 2016 at 17:53
A context without significant content and any content without a greater context is a demonstrable physical impossibility as well as conceptually impos...
November 10, 2016 at 17:32