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['Member']Joined: June 01, 2019 at 12:53Last active: June 22, 2019 at 21:47None discussions41 comments

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In: What should be considered alive?  — view comment
Please have the courtesy to read what I said. Oxygen is not a candidate. The question is mitochondria?
June 13, 2019 at 17:25
In: What should be considered alive?  — view comment
No the analogy is poor since oxygen is common to all things, and quite different from the co-dependancy of mitochondria and animals. Oxygen is not dep...
June 13, 2019 at 16:08
In: What should be considered alive?  — view comment
What are you talking about? Is this some sort of twisted attempt at an analogy? If that is the case it is very poor indeed.
June 13, 2019 at 15:42
In: The Blind Spot of Science and the Neglect of Lived Experience  — view comment
This is the moment he departs from reason to hyperbole. This is not an impediment to science, just a place where other ways of knowing are more useful...
June 13, 2019 at 08:02
In: What should be considered alive?  — view comment
There are oddities, though Mitochondria are semi-automomous "beings" that live inside everyone of our cells. They migrate from the mother's cells to t...
June 13, 2019 at 07:58
In: Problem of Evil (Theodicy)  — view comment
"They do lots of work, good they will be rewarded, they put on a robe, turban, and cite religion, surely a stupidity that will be punished." The good ...
June 13, 2019 at 07:52
In: Problem of Evil (Theodicy)  — view comment
Not part of the Plan?? What plan? Whose Plan?
June 13, 2019 at 07:51
In: Problem of Evil (Theodicy)  — view comment
The God of snakes and cancer and disease. Cancer has right too. God loves cancer.
June 12, 2019 at 18:54
In: Ethics of Interstellar Travel  — view comment
There is no prospect of a economically viable colony in Antartica, and that is a piece of cake far more than ANY where outside earth's orbit.
June 12, 2019 at 11:02
In: What is the difference between God and Canada?  — view comment
Canada does not exist. It is just a word used to describe a parcel of land and the people who live in it. It is always worth keeping this in mind when...
June 10, 2019 at 18:46
In: The moralistic and the naturalistic fallacy  — view comment
EP is a fantasy discipline. It assumes a perfection in evolution by attributing all traits a naturally selected positive. As complex bodies we have ev...
June 10, 2019 at 18:04
In: Ethics of Interstellar Travel  — view comment
I've not forgotten gravity at all. Zero gravity is totally hostile to the human body. And building in a space suit is not easy at all.
June 10, 2019 at 17:55
In: Ethics of Interstellar Travel  — view comment
All the elements that we use are present on earth in quantities easy enough to extract. Antarctica has as yet completely untapped mineral resources. B...
June 09, 2019 at 20:38
In: Ethics of Interstellar Travel  — view comment
I've read 100s of sci-fi books since my teens; eagerly watched men landing on the moon; reveled over 2001 A Space Odyssey; couldn't get enough of Star...
June 07, 2019 at 19:46
In: Euthanasia  — view comment
Depends on your criteria. An F1 car is absolutely useless compared to an Octavia if you want to get to work.
June 07, 2019 at 19:26
In: We're conscious beings. Why?  — view comment
There are NO answers to why unless they are asked about the actions of intentional agents. For example, you might ask WHY you asked that question, as ...
June 07, 2019 at 16:53
In: Why is Ayn Rand not Accepted Academically?  — view comment
What is NOT fascist about Paul?
June 07, 2019 at 16:45
In: Help With Nietzsche??  — view comment
The main thing to understand about N is that he was quite an old windbag who for most of his later life was losing his mind to syphilis. His doctoral ...
June 07, 2019 at 09:01
In: Putting the Mutually Assured Destruction doctrine to rest.  — view comment
Owning a firecracker and having a picture of an H-Bomb is not the same thing as a real threat the the USA. N Korea is no threat at all, and the soluti...
June 07, 2019 at 08:51
In: Euthanasia  — view comment
Murder is illegal killing by definition. So obviously not; this is not murder. Ask yourself whose life is it? And when you have that answer you should...
June 04, 2019 at 20:57
In: Putting the Mutually Assured Destruction doctrine to rest.  — view comment
This crisis was caused by the USA installing nukes in Turkey. We were never "on the brink". As soon as the US agreed to move them Khrushchev, pulled h...
June 04, 2019 at 20:41
In: Putting the Mutually Assured Destruction doctrine to rest.  — view comment
You are bing absurd, Argentina was completely free to invade since the British government had expensive and useless weapons. Had the British governmen...
June 04, 2019 at 20:35
In: Art highlights the elitism of opinion  — view comment
When you have seen thousands of movies and TV programmes it becomes crystal clear that many are all basically the same; same structure, same mood, sam...
June 04, 2019 at 20:32
In: Putting the Mutually Assured Destruction doctrine to rest.  — view comment
When Argentina invaded the Falkland Islands; when the US failed in Vietnam; when Russia rolled into the Crimea; the concept of MADestruction was show ...
June 04, 2019 at 18:57
In: Donald Trump (All General Trump Conversations Here)  — view comment
A State Visit is not a Vacation. Can you take him away please?
June 04, 2019 at 18:54
In: Small children in opposite sex bathrooms  — view comment
It's high time we de-gendered toilets. Urinals might have to go, but cubicles solve all problems.
June 04, 2019 at 18:53
In: Why is Ayn Rand not Accepted Academically?  — view comment
Rand is not a philosopher. She was a political bigot and polemicist. He ideas are anti-human, anti-social, and have shown to encourage selfishness and...
June 04, 2019 at 18:50
In: Is “Water is H2O” a posteriori necessary truth?  — view comment
H2O is a model of water which is not immediately a posteriori. But just about anyone can put an anode and a cathode into water and collect gas. You wi...
June 04, 2019 at 18:47
In: Is there a more complete scientific model than Anaximander's?  — view comment
In a fantasy story you are allowed to have a fabrication. 90% of the story is fabrication and more to do with the politics of the late Archaic period ...
June 04, 2019 at 18:35
In: Is there a more complete scientific model than Anaximander's?  — view comment
The Troy of Homer does not exist. There are many candidates for Troy on this site, but you cannot discover what is basically a fiction, based on event...
June 04, 2019 at 18:33
In: Is there a more complete scientific model than Anaximander's?  — view comment
https://www.ancientworldmagazine.com/articles/trojan-horse-from-mykonos/ https://theshieldofachilles.net/prologue/corinthian-aryballos-depicting-the-t...
June 03, 2019 at 23:12
In: Is there a more complete scientific model than Anaximander's?  — view comment
It does not matter at all if there were only a few lines in the Odyssey. The story of the horse was a big part of the myth from the very start, well b...
June 03, 2019 at 22:58
In: Is there a more complete scientific model than Anaximander's?  — view comment
Since the story of the TH was mentioned in Homer, it was part of the myth for maybe a 1000 years before Virgil was born. I do not call that "entirely ...
June 03, 2019 at 12:20
In: Is there a more complete scientific model than Anaximander's?  — view comment
I think you might be ignoring the rest of Greek literature. Hollywood is shite at inventing stuff.
June 03, 2019 at 12:18
In: Is there a more complete scientific model than Anaximander's?  — view comment
I studied this for more years than I'd care to remember. So no I reject your insulting comment.
June 03, 2019 at 12:14
In: Most depressing philosopher?  — view comment
Camus is life affirming, brutally honest and empowering. I fail to see what is depressing about that.
June 03, 2019 at 12:11
In: Is there a more complete scientific model than Anaximander's?  — view comment
All city states were up for war. Athens had an empire, and Alexander learned how to build one in Athens. The thing about the Spartans was they were a ...
June 01, 2019 at 22:30
In: Is there a more complete scientific model than Anaximander's?  — view comment
... Aristotle, in his 'Physicæ Auscultationes' (lib. 2, cap. 8, s. 2), after remarking that rain does not fall in order to make the corn grow, any mor...
June 01, 2019 at 19:09
In: Is there a more complete scientific model than Anaximander's?  — view comment
This is a foreshadowing of evolution. In the 2nd edition of OofS, Darwin mentions an passage from Aristotle who built upon the idea, showing that in t...
June 01, 2019 at 19:03
In: Most depressing philosopher?  — view comment
Nah. Camus embraces the end of the tunnel. In fact he knows there is no tunnel. Knowing you are going to die and the everyone will be dead in 100 year...
June 01, 2019 at 15:49
In: You've got to be kidding me... right?  — view comment
Why are we not extracting more water? Because only poor people have no water.
June 01, 2019 at 12:56
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