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my view is that there are at least two ways of thinking. 1 is creative, and intuitive, the other is more logic based...I don't think you have to favou...

well that it is an important way to view political things? Is that a myth? do you agree that to the extent that the political spectrum is defined by t...

if a chimp crossed with a pig to produce a female hybrid, then the hybrid will have mostly pig mitochondrial DNA, won't it...? Is that part of what ha...

more likely the other way around. monkeys do seem to have some kinds of relationships with pigs/boars.. https://youtu.be/qOkalW6krEs

for a few years, I have thought that there might be some weird connection between pigs and humans....this is interesting idea about hybridization. May...

It doesn't really matter how intelligent someone potentially is if they don't apply that intelligence to things...I sort of feel most people are prett...

I wonder if it is even possible to be omniscient. So there has to be a decision about what to do with the railway point handle,. If you decide course ...

ok, maybe my first post was too simplistic... I don't particularly agree with the philosophy that the greater the number in a group the more value it ...

you could ask the murderer for a cup of tea and a chat about how he sees his future panning out and what he is doing with his life. I'm not sure that ...

but some people think that memes spread because they are useful to the person or people that it exists in....this doesn't necessarily follow.

do either of these models explain why people would have these traits? it seems to address a problem like the shootings, one might have to address the ...

but you'd have to know what truth was to know if you were getting any closer to it or not....like the kids game you'd have to have someone say 'you're...

depends what he means by 'confirm'.......there is only evidence in science....'confirm' might mean he is referring to proof, which there wouldn't be.....

here's an idea, and not a very pleasant one....what if as the brain/mind gradually shuts down, one's experience of time slowed down, so eg if half the...

in your idea of death, how do you see the process of going from 'being' to 'not being'? The brain/mind is a complex thing/process...so maybe parts of ...

what sort of evidence would there be? A series of thousands of fossils that show how an animal when from having no horns to having horns for example, ...

say when you die, you enter a dark room, a room with no light, and you sit on a chair in that room for a million years, and then get to be brought bac...

all my life I have ''not been' a donkey(of the literal type)...I have also not been a kangaroo...there are many things I have not been....but I feel l...

if they set the program to accurately mimic the theory of evolution then you have provided some evidence that complexity can emerge within a Darwinian...

it is possible to run evolution-type computer simulations. In these simulations complexity does seem to arise by the process of random changes in the ...

well since a creator might still be needed to initiate life, all his theory says it a creator may not be needed for life to become more diversified an...

Darwin's theory is just about the way organisms adapt genetically, and diverge into different species, via evolution....this may or may not involve a ...

well I suppose, if you agree that there has to be some non-law based forces in society, then the question is how strong do you let these forces get be...

it takes time for things to be moved to the status of law. So some discussion about how people should behave is probably the best way to go. The OP mi...

No, it's ok....I just think that the term 'pseudoscience' gets misused too much, and can lead to the shutting down of discussion. Gravity is obviously...

If not really claiming it a more holisticly scientific model....a model like this would have to become more developed, to the point where some aspects...

I think it is important to recognise that we all form a world view from our experiences. This should motivate us to maybe find more empirical evidence...

I think boredom can be very bad...it can lead someone into a position of seeing only Hobson choices....a range of options most of which could lead to ...

well I just think of atoms and systems based upon those as lower developed meme systems, that connect with higher formed meme system. This enabled the...

I could maybe argue that the tiny mammals that live in the world of the dinosaur were the highest ranking meme generators, and the emergence of memes ...

I wondered once if dolphins live in a meme matrix as well, and that their 'talk' sequences are just codes to help others key into the matrix....so the...

I have this idea that we live in a meme matrix whereby everything is formed with memes.. I sort of think of memes as networks of interplaying, interco...

If I had the cash I'd like to commission a small animation of the ejection event, from the perspective of someone watching Adam and Eve loitering arou...

I came up with the ideas a few years ago, that the 'garden of Eden' existed before the universe, and that 'the fall' of Adam and Eve and their subsequ...

https://this.deakin.edu.au/self-improvement/can-you-blame-your-friends-for-your-unhealthy-habits

does it really matter if it is a small number of people acting in a certain way, that is linked to the view of what PC is? Surely it the effect these ...

yes, if something is passed into law, like you say, it can be scrutinised, and it can be challenged, and the ability to overturn it is then there.

but being in a state of boredom doesn't really say much about whether things are going well in your life or not. A prisoner sitting in his cell with l...

I dunno; often when people don't know the facts, they tend to be sceptical of man-driven climate change.

well even if the person doesn't feel as though they have experienced climate change directly, the causes of man-driven climate change are usually pres...

why? They might read about how man-kind's profligacy and carelessness leading to man-driven climate change, and link that to a view that people litter...

I'm not sure it is beneficial to separate the two things. Take a person who has witnessed an increase in local littering, and who then reads an articl...

if you use a metaphor...take someone who has some spare time; he can either use it to watch tv, or read a book, or he can make something to give as a ...

another thing I was just thinking: maybe not all curvature is associated with matter. Maybe there is a lot of curvature left over, after matter has be...

well the process of emergence is important I think. Perhaps I could put it to you that the cause of some of the problems on this planet might have lea...

well, if it is a social construct,then what motivates its construction? I think one of the things is facial recognition, which is part of the so calle...

there is the potential use of them in space, where they can't store that much in the way of spare parts.

it's funny I just thought the saying 'sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me'. Who ever came up with that saying must have ...

one reason that some animals might not reflect on their situations is that they just feel compelled to fulfil certain actions. When they see and hear ...

I think a lot of people at work just focus on the future, like what they are going to do after work, at the week end, on their future holidays......th...