Technically we are accelerating away from the center of the Earth, not toward it. If we coasted in an inertial frame (=freefall) we would end up orbit...
Yeah, I get that in much of the world since the Cold War there is this false dichotomy between state socialism and libertarian capitalism, an ideologi...
Most people don’t own their own homes free and clear, leaving them perpetually having to bribe those with more homes than they need to live in for the...
It sounds like what you favor is what is technically considered a form of market socialism. That “owners = laborers” part (and equivalently the “econo...
That post was in response to someone saying that people need work to keep them busy, even if they don't need the income. I agree people need the incom...
In places where cost of living is low, sure, $25k/yr is enough to live comfortably, but most people don't live in places where cost of living is low, ...
To be clear, by "capitalism" do you just mean free markets, or do you mean the division of society into a class of owners and a class of laborers? The...
You could also just talk about two light clocks or any other physical systems to judge the time passage on the ship and on Earth. All processes on the...
That is not an uncontroversial claim, and typically it is people leaning more toward theism who are most likely to object to it. People who think ther...
Yeah, a possible solution to the Problem of Evil, an answer to the question of "How can the existence of an all-knowing, all-powerful, all-good God be...
This is something I find myself thinking about whenever debating the Problem of Evil. Theists fall all over themselves to make excuses for why the wor...
The short answer is "deontologically", but all I mean by that is "not consequentially". Not exactly, at least. I think that the ends don't justify the...
I think OP is suggesting a government program making that more available to everyone, and also more research into making more and better of it. And to...
I wasn't suggesting that that example I gave was the kind of thing Bhikkhu Bodhi meant, just that that's an example of letting shame and fear guide yo...
I see absolutely no reason why they would. If by "secularization of values" you mean rejecting appeal to religious traditions, all that means is an op...
To insist is that nobody should indulge in any pleasures so long as anyone anywhere is suffering would require that everyone refrain from all pleasure...
If people didn’t need to work for survival, there’s all kind of volunteer work that could be done for some sense of purpose and something to do. And I...
That is the question of the hard problem of phenomenal consciousness, and you already know my answer to that: everything has some phenomenal experienc...
I think functionalism is more about implementing a protocol or format or even more generally a... well, a function. AIM on Windows and Mac are differe...
You did say “for example” but 60% is WAY too high. Only 25% of individuals make more than the mean individual income of about $50k/yr, while about 50%...
On the one interpretation, does she actually get younger, or does she just age much more slowly while he continues aging much more quickly, resulting ...
MR is not itself a theory of mind, it’s just a feature of functionalism. Functionalism says that mental states correspond to functional states of (par...
The question in the OP isn’t whether God exists, but if people would still have mystical experiences if he didn’t. Since we have examples of mystical ...
I think the intended application to history is something like the question of whether WWII would have still happened had Hitler died in infancy. If a ...
You know in the original Greek “the Word” is “logos”, which does literally mean “word” but in the context of the time meant more like “logic”, a cosmi...
As I see it, pleasure is identical to the alleviation of pain, broadly construed. Pleasure is the feeling of getting something you want — not just of ...
Then your list is not a list of all the real numbers. There is no question that there are as many rationals as there are naturals. It’s only when you ...
And then Cantor can read down your list and diagonally generate a real number that isn't already on it. Cantor's proof begins with a supposition that ...
Giving someone a greater ability to discern good from evil and a greater strength to do what they think they should do instead of doing otherwise is n...
If there was an all-loving (all-powerful and all-knowing) God, he wouldn't have made (or otherwise let there come to be) a hell to begin with, or peop...
The short answer is hedonism. The long answer requires an analogy to empiricism. When we're appealing empirical experience to judge what is real, we d...
Coincidentally(?), the educational YouTube channel Veritasium just put out a short (12min) video describing the butterfly effect and strong attractors...
I think maybe you're confusing me with the people I'm arguing against? I didn't say the A and not-A thing you're quoting, that was leo, in response to...
To claim that something is beautiful is in essence to claim that it "feels right", where "right" might mean either "good" or "true". Comedy and traged...
It's also called a phase space. It's an abstract space wherein each dimension represents one variable feature of some system, and so every point in th...
I have read him, extensively. But it was over a decade ago and I'm just posting here for fun, not work, so don't ask me to cite pages or anything. "Ma...
Technically correct, but beside the point. If you have a model of the world that says it works exactly some way, observations can prove that it works ...
That’s the same as what I said earlier: you cannot prove anything, only disprove. The fact that you can aim a cannon using Newton’s laws doesn’t prove...
Interesting read. I was going to bring up mathematical chaos and strong attractors but then you already did, so I have nothing more to add now. I can ...
I have had similar thoughts before, and even pictured these different facets of myself as different "characters" with their own unique outfits etc to ...
No, if my GPS failed to work it would disprove "it" (assuming you mean GR here). Important distinction. Whatever the absolute truth is, it has to be c...
Where it says “on” means “to be”, or “I am”? Yeah, the Greek first-person form of “to be” is the same as its infinitive, unlike English. That doesn’t ...
Prescriptive claims are non-descriptive, but cognitive; that is to say, they are not trying to assert anything about the way the world is, any facts a...
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