https://www.google.com/amp/s/abc7chicago.com/amp/us-capitol-threat-insurrection-riot-january-6/10371047/ It's early days yet but in the wake of the "6...
Why do people need crutches, dram and/or drugs? Same reason they need "religious beliefs and ideas": because thinking hurts a lot more than just makin...
Enslave, or destroy, all Eldar and Edain. Perhaps 'the lost cause' – Morgoth's Wrath. WWMD. :death: "You go to war with the army you have, not the arm...
February-March readings • The Darker the Night, the Brighter the Stars: A Neuropsychologist’s Odyssey, Paul Broks • How We Learn: Why Brains Learn Bet...
... fictions, fantasies, idols, art(ifact)s ... :smirk: Seems to me "beauty" and "truth" are equivalent only (or primarily) as types of symmetry / str...
Isn't the extent of Earth's (finite!) surface unbounded (infinite)? Also, whether an expanding torus or Möbius-like loop, what would it even mean to c...
Ok, but to what end? Our instincts recoil from, and minds confabulously evade, mundane realities like death and disease, insanity and freedom/dread, s...
For the reasons stated in my previous post before (and culminating with) the "alcohol and opium" sentence. If you disagree, or think my reasons are be...
In all seriousness, g/G is a/the drug of choice which most human beings are weaned on – infantalising 'providential' fictions (i.e. fairytales, conspi...
Q - Is the universe deterministic or indeterministic? A - Yes. ... Anyway :smirk: I suggest more close reading and study of the Ethics, III & IV (Pref...
The jury is still out. LQG hasn't panned out yet. (Rovelli) Paradox? No, it's only an apparent one speaking in folk-terms (non-mathematically, classic...
Read this masterful post-scarcity utopian space saga The Culture by the late great Iain M. Banks, especially these three (of ten) books: • Consider Ph...
Sub specie aeternitatus the 'inflationary-relativistic' universe is deterministic. Sub specie durationis the 'planck-scale' universe is indeterministi...
Speculating recently on a topic-related thread: And from older posts (btw, the links don't bite): I was in grade school when the Apollo program was mo...
I had responded to whose list already includes Zamyatin & Bradbury. I prefer Le Guin's The Dispossessed or her The Left Hand of Darkness, but your oth...
"What is the meaning of life?" (not this shit again :yawn: ) Well, for me, human life's "meaning" (or purpose) seems to consist in some combination, o...
Agreed, makes a lot of sense with current tech. However, a few decades from now (and ratcheted-up on such an 'interplanetary network' infrastructure),...
As a 'murican (or Terran / Terrestrial / Earthling), what will make me really sit-up and take notice is (if and) when we drop (constructed in hard lun...
I believe you're mistaken, Fool. There is no "consensus" – outside of a negligible fraction of human beings alive today – acknowledgement that e.g. re...
As pointed out above, the difference is that the latter is socially constructed and the former ineluctably precedes as well as exceeds (though doesn't...
And idiots also call themselves "experts" even though they aren't. Strawman. I never claimed or implied that 'mere consensus' denotes objectivity. Yea...
A 'realist criterion' for truth, if I may say so, discerns what is (proximately) true by matching a truth-claim to a truth-maker (i.e. fact of the mat...
Well, an objective X, as I discern it, is intersubjectivity-invariant, that is, 'group consensus' (whether aware or unaware) does not 'socially constr...
If, as I argue, harm isn't merely subjective, and if, furthermore, moral good isn't merely a matter of opinion, show me what I'm missing or where my t...
@"Pfhorrest" – I selected the second option because prescriptive domains supervene on (a/the) descriptive domain (i.e. oughts/ought nots are enabled b...
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