Frotunes

That is a very sobering thought, and what you recommended will probably never happen as well, not for a very long time at least. Or perhaps some unfor...

Is there anything to read on this matter that you guys know of? (especially on the question of whether nature uses binary)

"Can we use the concept 'information' to describe the behavior of non-living matter?" The information that non-living matter have is hard to explain. ...

Not just the validity but the very meaning of your view seems dubious to me, regardless what you are or aren't smoking.

So the question is, is that involuntary part of your body "you"? If no, then that begs the question are your vital organs you? You don't have direct c...

I too doubt that the brain controls all the cells of the body. I think many cells must work independently and not everything is controlled by the cent...

But that is true with all living beings and all of them have cells. Isn't there more than just that? (interesting as that physical dimension view is)....

I suspect you are much more than that. (Or much little? :halo: )

I, a stranger and afraid. In a world I never made. :sweat:

lol are you stoned right now?

But if we're talking about just the United States, higher and fairer taxes seem to be the only immediate solution. The inequality there is unbelievabl...

Just taxation won't solve the problem. There are areas where revolutoinary reforms are required rather than just pumping money into the government bur...

It would certainly help

i suppose im going for quality over quantity

hey that'd be cool!

Don't drink too much.

its the organic universe that is even more whacky

Information doesn't exist in non-material things, you always need a memory of a dna or a tape or sth, and energy doesn't do anything by itself without...

But one needs the other to exist. !!

Obviously there are differences, but there is the analogy also and it's a nice one.

war is a great example

humanism is an optimistic theory

agree

read the whole comment

It varies in degree though. Human morals and magic are hardly the same thing.

What is determinism?

It's a bit of both really. Firstly language was used to describe the world, but then education, the printing press, television, phones and the interne...

The hieroglyphs can only be interpreted and not pronounced, but thats alright because nobody uses it as common language now anyway. So they need to be...

Yes Please

Maybe because they're so small they need very little resources, and are built to be incredibly adaptive to many different environments (organic or oth...

Or maybe there are no other dimensions and this is it.

Do you have schizophrenia?

In fact this quote itself looks dubious. I'm beginning to suspect Terrapin Station and Matias are in fact the same character with different masks on?

Also I disagree with Yuval on "As Yuval Noah Harari rightly pointed out: Humanism, be it in its socialist, liberal of evolutionary variety, is a kind ...

You're quoting a non-existent sentence. Please take your medication. Bye.

Up has run five bluish.

Yes, because Matias never wrote "'Evolution means . . . the absence of morality " as you quote. He simply said he evolution was blind to morality. Evo...

I completely disagree with you.

Hmmm...When we say divide by 2, we mean make two of that. Or cut once. 2-1. But had our convention been that divide by 2 meant cut two times, then to ...

You're out of your element, man. Of course drug use can sometimes be immoral. What if a pilot took cocaine and crashed a plane? What are you smoking?

What does this mean to you? " All we need is a practical difference that a belief one way or the other makes, whatever all the details. "

Who would disagree with that? That a mother addicted to heroine is worse for a child than were she sober?

All humans have both good qualities and bad qualities. Perhaps they have more of one than the other, perhaps not. All humans do both moral and immoral...

He said that evolution is blind and impartial to such things as morality and only cares about survival and reproduction. He didn't say evolution discr...

I'm sorry this is indecipherable to me.

Precisely the opposite of that. He is saying that evolution shaped humans to be very social, and that required what we would call morality. So it was ...

You forgot to mention the bit that Betty lived with her parents so she didn't have to pay rent, but Bill lived alone so he did. That's economics, wher...

Here's an even better one: Muslims should not eat pork. All pork is meat. Therefore Muslims should not eat meat.

If Socrates said it then yes. But if the S stands for someone else, I suspect it to be a kindergarten teacher or a magician, so pedagogy or wizardry p...

Insane Denial of Conscious Experience LOL