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They are all lesser truths which can be viewed either contexts or contents in different situations. A statistic of one being an oxymoron is an example...
October 26, 2016 at 18:22
Its anarchistic Rainbow Warrior philosophy that combines Socratic wisdom with Taoism. We write mathematical poetry and often our poetry is considered ...
October 26, 2016 at 17:06
A recent examination of businesses revealed that those who were reliable, helpful, and friendly had more repeat business than those who were merely re...
October 26, 2016 at 16:52
We are the ants climbing the Empire State building frequently totally clueless that we can never grasp our true situation by merely climbing higher. W...
October 26, 2016 at 16:31
It implies synergy comes at the price of normalizing the impact of its own individual parts. Like the Hindu Goddess Kali synergy becomes synonymous wi...
October 26, 2016 at 15:10
You are describing a materialistic approach which isn't compatible with the evidence. For example, a mathematical study of causal physics and classica...
October 26, 2016 at 01:00
Everything I say obeys the simple rule that words only have demonstrable meaning according to their function in specific contexts. That's a Functional...
October 26, 2016 at 00:14
According to quantum mechanics it just depends upon the context. If nothing else, the two of you will feel a mutual gravitational attraction and could...
October 25, 2016 at 23:42
Its not negation, instead everything can be viewed as a social interaction with the question being how much do we socialize. A sea slug might ignore s...
October 25, 2016 at 22:38
According to Quantum Cognition theory our minds obey fuzzy logic and quantum mechanics and that is rapidly becoming the consensus today. Sociologists ...
October 25, 2016 at 21:35
You call someplace paradise, kiss it goodbye. However, that's due to modern civilization operating more often using the simplest memory centric organi...
October 25, 2016 at 19:00
The archaeological studies suggest that our ability to produce stone weapons required an extensive period of apprenticeship that increased as the weap...
October 25, 2016 at 16:57
It means that ideas are an emergent phenomenon. According to the latest study, infants only acquire the ability to imitate people after several weeks ...
October 25, 2016 at 16:35
People have been complaining about me "inconveniently" bring physics and scientific research into such philosophy discussions as if philosophy had not...
October 25, 2016 at 15:14
Often when people ask my advice I tell them, When in trouble, when in doubt, Run in circles, scream and SHOUT! If that doesn't work keep trying to fig...
October 24, 2016 at 15:25
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Philosophers don't define terms like "insanity" which even psychologists don't use. Its promoted by three year old children calling each other names o...
October 24, 2016 at 15:08
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Feynman said, "I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something. The first principle is that you must n...
October 24, 2016 at 00:28
Necessity is the mother of invention and studies showed Vietnam veterans returning from war tended to have higher IQs. You can get a similar effect by...
October 23, 2016 at 23:27
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If qualia are merely an abstraction that doesn't relate to physical reality then why don't we just call them that?
October 23, 2016 at 23:15
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Same planet, different karmic universe. An unusual metaphorical scalar version of John Wheeler's Participatory Anthropic Principle where its difficult...
October 23, 2016 at 22:23
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No joke, it would explain why the LHC mass of the Higgs Boson suggests cosmic ray energy level experiments are required to settle the issue of supersy...
October 23, 2016 at 21:58
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In a universal recursion of the law of identity it would display four fold supersymmetry vanishing into indeterminacy. Pattern matching ruling the uni...
October 23, 2016 at 20:14
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The particulars of Penrose's theory never impressed me much, he's just too metaphysically oriented in his approach if you ask me and quantum mechanics...
October 23, 2016 at 18:38
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http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/2016/oct/18/consciousness-is-tied-to-entropy-say-researchers These results are similar to the recent simulati...
October 23, 2016 at 18:20
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There's nothing B.S. in anything I've said, however, feel free to read up on Penrose's experimental confirmation of quantum mechanics in the brain and...
October 23, 2016 at 17:03
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Physics describes the fundamental relationships between anything observable and, for example, they've also shown how quantum mechanics applies to the ...
October 23, 2016 at 15:19
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"A black hole has no hair! Gravity without mass! Time is what prevents everything from happening at once! There is no law except the law that there is...
October 22, 2016 at 22:54
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The most recent evidence in physics is that the brain maximizes entropy and consciousness is therefore an emergent property. Humor is another example ...
October 22, 2016 at 21:33
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If we hit someone over the head and knock them out we say they are "unconscious" and to claim they are still conscious without any empirical evidence ...
October 22, 2016 at 20:09
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Obeying the laws of thought, modern science favors quantifiable results that fit classical logic's yes or no, true or false, criteria which recognize ...
October 22, 2016 at 19:38
Unsatisfying Crap! When a nation has a nice sense of humor, Horse's drag manure through their fields. When a nation loses its sense of humor, Horses b...
October 22, 2016 at 18:51
Physics describes everything in the universe as expressing entropy, or crap rolling downhill, that can suddenly transform into poetry in motion and vi...
October 22, 2016 at 17:19
I see nothing there that elucidates Buddhist views of metaphysics. Without a clear distinction of what constitutes metaphysics Buddhism is merely so m...
October 21, 2016 at 23:25
All around the mulberry bush!
October 21, 2016 at 22:35
Without a clear statement of a Buddhist stance on metaphysics it has no demonstrable scope or content!
October 21, 2016 at 22:29
Every Buddhist I've ever talked to has refused to acknowledge that the concept of maya is a clear metaphysical distinction between reality and illusio...
October 21, 2016 at 21:47
Even Jesus was supposedly tempted on the cross and just about everyone has last regrets no matter how good a life they live. It used to be more common...
October 21, 2016 at 20:47
Language as circular logic, what a great idea! Deja Vu, that feeling that you've.... Deja Vu, that feeling that you've...
October 21, 2016 at 19:31
Perhaps he was referring to them when he said, "Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent!" I always interpreted him myself as meaning that...
October 21, 2016 at 19:23
The common dictionary merely contains the most popular definitions of words listed according to their popularity. Philosophy by popular consensus is a...
October 21, 2016 at 17:44
Existentialist angst can be viewed as merely a dark school of comedy and, unless you can categorize emotions logically, whether or not they make any s...
October 21, 2016 at 15:47
Buddhism is whatever Buddhists say it is making it difficult to determine where and when it originated. Lao Tzu came close to saying, "The past is mer...
October 21, 2016 at 15:13
Britannia no longer rules the waves and the banks and international conglomerates are running everything. Either way you're screwed so the question is...
October 20, 2016 at 18:58
What we call conscious thought and unconscious intuition is merely a question of context. Socrates said knowledge is the only good and, I would add, i...
October 20, 2016 at 01:31
One of the more controversial aspects of Taoism in particular is that it implies the secular and religious, metaphysical and mystical, are indivisible...
October 19, 2016 at 22:23
They say in China today you can still come across the occasional vagabond meditating in the woods, but if you ask them if they are Zen or Taoist they ...
October 18, 2016 at 23:29
Science is merely a tool and without the wisdom to use it we have world wars.
October 18, 2016 at 22:11
Humor and beauty are indivisible complimentary-opposites and modern academia have merely turned the art of denial into a science for profit. That's wh...
October 18, 2016 at 20:37
This year a guy in charge of a US nuclear missile silo was shot and killed by his counterpart for attempting to launch. Dr Strangelove and McArthur ar...
October 18, 2016 at 19:03
Its the new nuclear threat. The US has come close to nuclear war perhaps half a dozen times including once when some general in command of a base deci...
October 18, 2016 at 18:15