Real vs imaginary: Its a bit like a drawing of a baseball vs a baseball that can be thrown around. In normal speech if we ask if the drawing of a base...
If climate change is as serious as some are saying, and not close to being solved, as appears to be the case, will anything short of a major revolutio...
Problem I have with an "All inclusive set" is that apparently I can imagine a larger and larger set, ad infinitum. No matter how big I imagine "Everyt...
Through either -Metaphysics - Understanding that the things that are an apparent source of stress may not having any ultimate (ontological?) reality. ...
Yeah, I wish more often. Most of the time it happens when I am woken up in the morning for some reason, am up for a while, and go back to bed. For me ...
Depends on what we mean. When I say "not think about an elephant" do I mean in any universe or just this one. I would think I am only talking about th...
Is it not a fact that Paris is spelled (in English) P.a.r.i.s? And then isn't it a fact because English speakers by and large agree how to spell it? I...
Coherence and correspondance "theories of truth" can be applied within a subjective framework. For example, language is a thought up system of symbols...
I don't know. There is so much information, its hard to make heads or tails of things. How are any of us supposed to stop global warming, if even the ...
I don't see where they asked if the people are ok with the agenda. Rather, they just surveyed which goals in the agenda the people are most concerned ...
I have to do more research on it. On another note, the UN's Sustainability Development Agenda I assume includes handling human generated global warmin...
I should have said directly linked to the brain I guess. Videogame machines/programs are tools we use to create simulations. Usually we create these s...
Even in the Star Trek universe they are not living in a utopia despite being able to explore space comfortably, materialise food and experience whatev...
Simulations are only mind generated. You can't "literally" live in a simulation. When you play a video game the mind projects 3dimensional depth onto ...
Anti-humor is really quite interesting. Surprise is arguably the most essential factor in humor. With anti-humor you expect a surprising answer, and i...
Do you disagree that empirical science suggests all your experiences, ideas...whatever makes up you and your world view is in and created by the brain...
Here is an ironic take on the subject: “The greater part of the world's troubles are due to questions of grammar.” ? Michel de Montaigne, The Complete...
Trust is won not given. ~ Tobsha Learner The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him. ~ Henry Lewis Stimson I trust everyone. I just don’t ...
I will vote: aging. By far the greatest number of deaths has been because of aging, not to mention the suffering of losing one's mind, sense and abili...
If god were a machine maybe he could provide some exact mechanistic explanation of himself. If god is Being, on the other hand, then I think when he a...
You asked "What makes the good life good?" You then said in your post: "a good life will be a highly-meaningful life." So is not your answer that it i...
Big plans rarely succeed. The more complicated a method is, the more things can go wrong. We may do better to start at the ground up, with simple comm...
Would you not help your family, friends, or community voluntarily? Government keeps people divided. If the people were united, we could protect each o...
If I find any, I'll pass 'em on. Seems like common sense though that self government is the only legitimate form of government. I don't want anyone to...
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