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Most of the sources of information that represent themselves as alternatives to mainstream science are all about creating a community and marketing. A...
December 04, 2019 at 18:08
Boredom is a goal evolution created for us (probably) so that we don't stop trying to do things and therefore wasting our resources. You are not in a ...
December 04, 2019 at 18:00
Well, I guess we disagree about the degree mainstream science is corrupt. But from the practical point of view where the important question is: "What ...
December 04, 2019 at 17:55
Well, that is not exactly what I meant. To me achieving everything you want and being in a state you don't try to change is still happiness. Human psy...
December 04, 2019 at 17:48
So, a being that has achieved everything it tried to achieve and therefore does not have anything that makes it behave with intent since everything is...
December 04, 2019 at 16:59
Although, we probably should define what a goal is. (I think we pretty much have defined everything else pretty precisely.) We seem to agree that a sy...
December 04, 2019 at 16:30
Okay, let's acknowledge that at any given time, the only logically necessary goal an unstable system has is the goal of achieving a change in it's cur...
December 04, 2019 at 16:13
Stability was defined precisely, although I do agree that the text has other things in it that are interpretable. Stable state is simply a state of a ...
December 04, 2019 at 15:44
While I do agree that we could always do better, I disagree that people that do science, idolize science. Not that this has been studied, but all scie...
December 04, 2019 at 15:35
Yes yes, and I'll get back to that after a good night sleep and some thinking.
December 04, 2019 at 07:00
Oh, and by the way I don't think not eating is somehow immoral just because you have a goal of eating. For me it's all about justifying goals and the ...
December 04, 2019 at 05:44
Okay, it seems like we understand the word "moral" differently. To me it just represents the systems we have created to evaluate our actions and choic...
December 04, 2019 at 05:16
It seems like you do not understand subjective normative statements. I have a goal of eating. Therefore according to that goal I should eat. There is ...
December 04, 2019 at 04:33
Heat death does not try to change its state unlike the current world which continuously tries to change its state until it reaches the heat death. The...
December 04, 2019 at 03:44
Complete heat death of the universe aka where entropy is leading us is a stable state. Entropy increases stability. The reasoning is: Any person has a...
December 04, 2019 at 02:50
Well, this stability based explanation for happiness is quite like that. Happiness is the absence of instability. Gaining happiness is the losing of i...
December 04, 2019 at 02:32
If we extrapolate the goal of trying to achieve change in an unstable state aka trying to not be in that unstable state to an infinitely long timespan...
December 04, 2019 at 02:20
The reason we see systems in nature usually ending up in a stable state if they don't get outside influence, is because all systems are trying to chan...
December 04, 2019 at 01:29
Well, any engineer knows that this is not true - one can simply read wikipedia for engineering issues and their engineering projects based on this eas...
December 04, 2019 at 00:46
I do agree that there are many schools of thought within science. For example quite many of the interpretations of quantum mechanics are so widely acc...
December 04, 2019 at 00:34
It's true that an unstable state might change just to another unstable state. Still, an unstable system is trying to achieve a change in its current s...
December 04, 2019 at 00:13
"Nuclear physics is quite at the core of physics and totally mainstream, actually. And is just as reliable as anything else in science."-ssu You are c...
December 03, 2019 at 18:50
I try to avoid words that have too specialized meanings like homeostasis that to my knowledge only apply to living systems. I use a very general term ...
December 03, 2019 at 18:37
It is true true that no logical necessity can ever give us any information about our world since they are true in every possible world. They are all t...
December 03, 2019 at 18:16
Or are you saying that when you are in a state you are trying to change (my definition of an unstable state), you are not trying to change that state?...
December 03, 2019 at 13:45
But even you should agree that something you try to achieve is your goal. And you as a system are trying to get away from any unstable states you may ...
December 03, 2019 at 13:34
And when ones personal normative statements can be derived from logical necessities, ones goals and choices become unarbitrary and they can be judged ...
December 03, 2019 at 12:58
It seems like we don't have a common definition for words "trying to change" or "goal". Probably my mistake since I could have defined them in the ori...
December 03, 2019 at 12:36
Stability is a logically necessary property of everything since everything either is trying to change its current state or isin't. Therefore everythin...
December 03, 2019 at 11:26
Limit x can be described as "A is not equal to (a defined group of possibilities)". I don't see how this creates an infine regress, since the text cle...
December 03, 2019 at 11:05
The law of non-contradiction is just a part of limics - the part that says that paradoxes are not possible. Limics has other properties like everythin...
December 03, 2019 at 09:38
You should read the whole text since it clearly states its point. (although I understand that it's annoyingly long, so no judgement here.) I'm not try...
December 03, 2019 at 09:26
The goal of personal stability is a logical necessity for everyone, since every possible system tries by necessity to achieve stability, since instabi...
December 03, 2019 at 09:18
All of this "secret science" you are talking about is pretty much by definition not mainstream science and has no bearing on how reliable mainstream s...
December 03, 2019 at 00:27
One way to prove, that a self-replicating system with random mutations does not have to be very complex fundamentally, is computer simulation. Almost ...
December 02, 2019 at 19:52
"...and prompts me to ask if this theory of Limics isn't already extant and that too in a vitally necessary way in the form of the law of non-contradi...
December 02, 2019 at 18:04
You seem to use the word "religion" in quite a liberal way. And everything being either science or religion seems also quite black and white. Why can'...
December 02, 2019 at 17:46
Also, science isn't just logic+empiricism. It's also about taking away potential corruption and human error through things like peer review. Logic+emp...
December 02, 2019 at 15:17
so, mathematics is also religion since it uses logic without empiricism?
December 02, 2019 at 15:07
well, this is still an abridged version. Especially the later conclusions would be hard to understand without the definitions and deductions from prio...
December 02, 2019 at 15:04