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Humans are 'de facto' forced to stay alive for fear of death.

Socialism is not sold. Capitalism is sold. Socialism is solidarity. Capitalism is survival of the richest.

Is not a core value. That is an added bonus.

Do we have more than one "self"? I can recommend listening to a podcast from 'Hidden Brain, 'the empathy gap'. Shows how we behave very different unde...

Logic without experience has no value. Experience without logic has no value. We should aim for the experiential logic. You can replace logic with hyp...

How solipsistic can you get?

Who is 'us'?

As far as I am concerned the only core value is survival.

I think there are 2 kinds of logic. Logic and ill-logic. You can't have 2 'truths' that are mutually exclusive.

"Unstable things try to be stable" Without Instability nothing would exist.

'I am a liar'. Is this sentence/statement true or false?

"This sentence is false" is utterly meaningless. Without a frame of reference (context) most sentences are meaningless. Practically every statement is...

Yes 0 is neutrality. This is our optimal state. This is our rest state. The state of balance. However all life hangs in a balance.

. I am saying time can not be known because we can not experience it. I experience it every Time I am bored. Listen to Jazz and tell me they don't exp...

. "Useless knowledge" Yes that is nonsense. That does not exist Knowing what makes a person nervous is very usefull for me. Knowledge doesn't 'do' any...

In general I find it a lot easier to argue for absence of something negative. I don't see happiness, joy or contentment as the result of gaining somet...

I am of the opinion, if people didn't have something to struggle for we would lose the will to live. We have to have aspirations. I think one of the g...

I think you need quite a lot more than just a mathematician to get a satellite orbiting around the earth. It is not called rocket science for nothing.

Yes I agree. All these wonderful marvels science and engineering have brought us has left us with an ecological disaster (an extinction rate almost un...

I didn't say that you need relativity to make GPS work. This is what I said.

Exactly. In the frame of reference of aiming a cannon Newton's laws are true enough. For determining your GPS position, you need Einsteins relativity ...

1 Knowledge should work all of the time, not some of the time. 2 Knowledge is useful. 3 Knowledge answers questions 4 Knowledge solves problems. 5 Kno...

]Your GPS working proves that engineers kick ass. Science and engineering are good friends, but they aren't the same. The fact that your GPS works is ...

If it is the absolute truth you are looking for, might I suggest you try one of the many religions?

The fact that your GPS works proves it.

Science is what can be proven. All the rest is educated guesswork.

Religion, Homeopathy and Acupuncture do work. It's effects are psychological and therefor very difficult to quantify scientifically. The mind has a he...

Clever response..

How about the statement: 'I saw your brother today' and you reply my brother died yesterday. Wouldn't that be a true contradiction?

Okay, how do you want to be ruled? You either rule or be ruled or find yourself a nice island somewhere.

I can only think in simple concepts and I know that the balance I seek is somewhere between boredom and frustration. In one I experience too little ch...

As day follows night you will always have rulers. Try to make good out of bad situation. Anarchy is war.

I think you are looking for the religious section.

The word you are looking for is homeostasis.

Knowledge should work all of the time, not some of the time. (Caveat) Knowledge should always be considered within a certain frame of reference. Newto...

I live in a plural democracy. I have the ability to vote for who I believe best represents my values. ‘Many forms of Government have been tried, and w...

I think what you are trying to articulate is 'balance'. If we consider all living things to be like tightrope walkers or cyclists. Without (stability/...

How much you suffer depends on your willingness to suffer. How much you suffer depends on your awareness of your suffering. I can give you many exampl...

Desiring the alleviation from suffering is a necessary precursor to enlightenment. Once you (truly) realize, desire is the cause of (much of) your suf...

Most people are not doing the job they want but the job that pays for the things they want. Fear of failure seldom leads to succes.

No it is not circular. As a young child I lived in a very cold house (ice on the inside of the windows). We had no central heating, just an open firep...

This definition still holds. It is just that it concerns a special kind of chemical reaction: namely the synthesizing of inorganic to what we consider...

if I am driven by a desire to own a Porsche, how does that make me do what I want? If I am driven by my fear of failure, how does that make me get wha...

Oxidation is not life. Crystals are not life. Apart from chemists, only life has the ability to incorporate inorganic carbon compounds into 'organic' ...

Everything we consider to be alive has been created through replication even though they themselves may be unable to sexually reproduce. Even your mul...

True. Scientific research has had a devastating effect on nature.

I totally agree with you there. Mathematics is logic in it's most purest form and has made many physical discoveries only proven correct many years la...

Yes. You would think we would have figured out how to create a basic cell by now. One that is able to synthesize organic molecules.

Show me one life form that has come into existence without replication. The essence of life has to be that it can produce an (almost) identical copy o...

As long as you don't destroy the last flower on earth, I don't see the problem.