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Psychiatry in a nutshell when analysing grief, anxiety and depression. And the diagnosis plus side effects of medication creating more anxiety, depres...
January 29, 2023 at 18:01
Q. When? Ans: Always. Doesn't have to be a specific, time place or thing etc as exemplified by the words always, everywhere, everything, every way
January 27, 2023 at 15:40
Not me waiting for the antinatalists to swarm in lol
January 27, 2023 at 09:20
Or in this case. "So there's a party? Where is it and when (where is when). This may enable us to further understand the role of verbs like" to be" we...
January 27, 2023 at 09:15
they do indeed haha. That's a super interesting matrix. Keen to look through and enjoy the numerous fundamental questions. I've noticed one commonalit...
January 27, 2023 at 08:55
Oh yes. Refer above to probability and potentials mutual interdependence whilst really just being two sides of literally the same coin. Technically th...
January 27, 2023 at 08:52
Same lol.
January 27, 2023 at 08:51
Probability. Potential and probability are somewhat analogous/interlinked. Rule 1: You can't have Potential if there's zero probability of having such...
January 27, 2023 at 08:50
Philosophy begins at one simple phenomenon: Curiosity. A trait not exclusive to humans by any stretch, but certainly exemplified best, to its furthest...
January 27, 2023 at 07:13
yes ma'am.
January 26, 2023 at 17:25
I agree with pretty much all you're saying. It's an exciting and beautiful thing to consider. My only qualm is about heat death. Heat death is only a ...
January 26, 2023 at 17:22
Perhaps. An exciting and terrifying prospect in equal measure. Perhaps though competition between AI under the jurisdiction if the same pressures we f...
January 26, 2023 at 16:31
I'm not so sure. The knowledge of nuclear fission lead to compassionate/productive use: nuclear power plants and malevolent/destructive use: nuclear b...
January 24, 2023 at 18:33
I'm not so sure I agree, because AGI is being/will be developed on solely human data. Whatever biases we have in our conscious experiences that we can...
January 24, 2023 at 18:15
hard to pinpoint any one specific genre to be honest. Music is often functional for me depending on my activities: if I'm out with friends at a dance ...
January 24, 2023 at 09:46
That's true Banno. Can't expect unique products if I go to the most mainstream marketplace
January 24, 2023 at 09:24
That's fair. You're probably right. I'm sure music will be very different in 100 years
January 24, 2023 at 09:20
Well I don't think she's plays favourites that's for sure. But what she does have is a place, a niche, for every respectable and adaptable species. Th...
January 23, 2023 at 17:16
Because you cannot grow, learn and self correct without trial and error. Evolution has been doing it for millions of years so that it can rebrand when...
January 23, 2023 at 17:12
she scorns badly behaved children, as any self respecting mother ought to do. I don't blame her in the slightest.
January 23, 2023 at 17:08
Thank you I have been thinking about the planet as an organism for quite some time and it naturally leads one to qualify what type of pathology we as ...
January 23, 2023 at 17:04
I think we don't like to think about it that way because it's unsettling/ a tough pill to swallow. But from the perspective of the planet as a holisti...
January 23, 2023 at 16:55
All autoimmune disorders lead to chronic inflammation. And chronic inflammation in itself is a risk factor for cancer development. So there is definit...
January 23, 2023 at 10:05
sure let them on. I don't want to offend anyone. Perhaps abiogenesis was done by done divine intervention. Its not entirely outside of possibility. Bu...
January 22, 2023 at 21:02
I don't think it's that far fetched. Based on our own observations of biology there are living things that can tolerate impressive levels of heat, aci...
January 22, 2023 at 20:55
This is very true. We may indeed not have had the last laugh with regards to infections. As evolution of bacteria is much faster than human evolution ...
January 22, 2023 at 19:32
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I have no reason to believe humans will stop expanding their purview. Our economic model (despite recessions) is hinged on constant expansion/growth a...
January 22, 2023 at 19:06
Ah I see. So natural selection would operate on whole colonies - the unit or collective organism that is being snuffed out or propagated. Makes sense ...
January 22, 2023 at 18:15
Yes now we have a propensity for cancer in the tiered system of threats to our life, having dealt with barbarism, and infections pretty well, and beca...
January 22, 2023 at 18:10
Of course because they kill the host. Or get chemoed. Or surgically/radiologically targeted. The "cooperation" or "socialist" genes are constitutional...
January 22, 2023 at 17:56
What about "anything that can go right will go right." What exactly is the difference in the two possibilities? For Murphys law to actually be correct...
January 22, 2023 at 15:47
Bit off topic but on this note of name calling/ discrete definitions, I've found using a simile is just as effective in making a point without being a...
January 22, 2023 at 15:34
I learned about "sandwiching" where 2 compliments are interspersed by one criticism which softens the blow. Some people would think that uneccessary a...
January 22, 2023 at 15:25
Interesting. I would have imagined that having one sole producer of offspring would render the gene pool quite vulnerable. As one bad mutation in such...
January 22, 2023 at 15:22
I agree that there is certainly a conflict between business models and healthcare. One is trying to maximise profit and the other is trying to maximis...
January 22, 2023 at 15:09
True I agree. Afterall, cancer could be considered a group of cells that found a way to adapt, survive and multiply in an environment that didn't favo...
January 22, 2023 at 15:00
I get what you're saying. I was about to point that out before fully reading your text that what causes X harm fro one person may not cause the same X...
January 22, 2023 at 14:42
Self hatred or self restraint? Hatred is an emotion/mood which is biased and has an opposite. Apathy, stillness or the eternal middle ground would be ...
January 22, 2023 at 14:33
what is the "authentic reality" in this case? The one outside the matrix, or the one you've known your whole life within it? In my opinion, both are a...
January 22, 2023 at 14:22
Well, true in the objective sense of course. If we failed to stay in the game we'd be extinct. On an ethical/moral or more human perspective "how one ...
January 22, 2023 at 12:52
Damn that hits deep
January 22, 2023 at 12:43
That seems fair I agree. I don't think if one feels something is wrong they should do the same act in return. That would be hypocrisy because either i...
January 22, 2023 at 12:39
haha that's quite a use if the word presumption. In truth I think there's a lot of Interplay between "fact", "belief" "hypothesis" and "presumption" o...
January 20, 2023 at 12:37
I agree. Time does not have relevance to a single moment - where time doesn't occur. Otherwise it wouldnt be a specific moment. It's worth noting that...
January 19, 2023 at 17:31
I agree that reality/existence in day to day living can be taken at face value. This is the nature of culture, common ideation and the interpersonal u...
January 19, 2023 at 17:22
Is immortality a solution or something detrimental? Immortality would be the end of bearing child on a planet of finite resources, not to mention the ...
January 19, 2023 at 17:13
Not sure if it is presumptuous. All physical phenomena and occurrences are fundamentally presumptions by humans - in that "presumption" is a behaviour...
January 19, 2023 at 16:48
I love this analogy, or rather "plausible explanation". Basically natural selection not being restricted to just life arbitrarily but instead being a ...
January 19, 2023 at 15:27
My criterion for existence is potential, probability and change (potential energy). If the sole criterion for "potential" is to manifest all possible ...
January 18, 2023 at 18:30
can you elaborate? Surely the processes that give rise to existence are the criteria for existence no?
January 18, 2023 at 18:00