Does the technology not get used against civilians though? A drone dropping a bomb on a city may not be a human pilot, but the people the bomb is drop...
Fascinating Athena. I never knew about the Roosevelt families philosophy. Thank you for highlighting it for me. Oh that's a shame. Perhaps you are the...
It definitely is. If I punch a punchbag at a fairground, the force of the impact (the momentum of my arm) is measured digitally in a number scale. Whi...
Yes you're right the energy is released elsewhere than where the measurement tool is being used. Just like we argued about the room releasing heat to ...
Well if " more ideal/improved" realities or worlds are connected to the real/currently possible one (which is consistent), does that not mean that a t...
I didn't say it could capture all the energy lost from the room did I? You interpreted such for some reason. It can measure that energy is being lost ...
How is that the only inductive reasoning possible? It could be this case. But it could also be that not all the energy can be measured. Does something...
The "ideal" (potential to be) and the "real" (what actually is currently) are mutually dependent. The ideal is the goal whilst the real is what we hav...
Hey Michael. There have been many gods in the past that had a specific character trait: Chronos/Kronos for example (god of time) - where we get the wo...
You do exist as a subject indeed. Contradiction comes in the form of other existents - other subjects - that do not think the same way as you do. At b...
Is philosophy not the contemplation of such a creator? Philosophy can (as far as I know) be applied to all human pillars of society - medicine, langua...
In order to raise a new question a new assumption must first be established. Science lends its hand to concretising such assumptions. Philosophy takes...
You're right unenlightened. A philosophers role is indeed to challenge convention, to deduce where such convention would logically lead and inform the...
I will always be in awe of such people: applying their intelligence and talents to revolutionising our fight against suffering. I will always commend ...
It does. And that is how capitalism operates. I pointed it out as a demonstration of that fact. Not because I believe its the ethical thing to do. My ...
Agreed Hanover. I do believe the judiciary system gets it right more often than it doesn't. It is afterall generated out of rigorous thought and "tria...
I agree. Mother nature has rules, checks and balances. She provides for natural phenomena. If one such species decides they are the ruler of nature, w...
It is if the state wants the people that uphold it to continue to exist/survive. What good is a state that doesn't provide for anyone and thus in the ...
Very true. I agree. And its a shame in a way because with delusion comes a lack of wisdom. Because wisdom comes from truth not delusion. Living in the...
I see what you mean. Yes perhaps it's more appropriate to use the term self and merely expand its borders rather than call it selfless. True selflessn...
Yes quite right. Proganda and alienation of others, not seeing them as human (like self) I think is fundamentally based on fear and denial. Fear that ...
Self-fullfilling prophecies/outcomes come into being from none other than themselves. They require no external neccesity. "Jane fully believes she wil...
Entropy is the tendency for energy to disperse further afield. Down a gradiant from high energy to a more widespread low energy state. The energy can'...
The only proof you've provided is personal opinion. I'm not sure I agree with that as definitive proof hence my request for you to give me the proof y...
Of course you can. Set up an infrared camera outside the room and you'll see the heat energy lost from the room. Don't be silly now. Otherwise how wou...
Can you send me a reference to that proof then? I'm intrigued to hear all about this proof that satisfies Newtonian, relativistic and quantum physics....
That's incorrect. Transactions of energy from A to B lose energy from the |AB| system as heat, light and sound energy (usually due to unavoidable fric...
Is A/C is external environment as you said and B is an observer, I would imagine that of course energy is transferred to B from A. Is that not what an...
Why does it have to be a finite part that controls consciousness? I think all parts of the structure and how those structures interact with eachother ...
Yes it depends on what idea of "selfish" one has. If they think it is about serving their own physical self, gathering and not sharing resources - the...
Very true Bylaw. Propaganda is based on deluding people away from the idea of "self", pitting them against eachother. Its most evil and unsettling I t...
Well, obviously we must have a physical self. But I think it pertains more to "only thinking about yourself" or being "self-absorbed". That to me is s...
It is vague for sure. I agree with you on that. But if she is a very kind, warm, caring person, both for herself and her friends, that has this sudden...
Justly detained according to who? Her? She, and her family and friends and work collegues - a whole group of people - can all still think she was unju...
Exactly Mark. For the purpose of everyday life its nice to not have to think about time and merely take it as that thing that's always there ticking a...
Yes it would seem to be the only logical explanation given the circumstances described, strictly without changing or factoring in more information tha...
I thought we agreed that it was rational from the point of view of both sides. Are you saying only the law is rational? Or only the criminal is ration...
Well you would find relatvity very interesting then. As because it takes time for light/other perceivable information to travel a distance, according ...
I would say no as time passes internally (perception) and externally (standardised for use by everyone as a collective). A person just waking from a c...
How would we relieve ourselves of false perceptions of time when we cannot avoid perceiving time? Its part of consciousness. If you ask 10 people how ...
Yes absolutely. You're quite right T Clark. It's not irrational in that it serves the purposes of the criminal (assuming they get away with it). But d...
a disturbing prospect indeed Alkis. Perhaps we need to re-evaluate how we throw around the word "delusion" as it assumes that the person accusing anot...
Well it is a matter of perspective is it not? The law may be rational in that it seeks to say, stop organised crime selling unregulated and potentiall...
Interesting. What's the difference between a fact and a belief in your views? Is that not just saying I became arrogant because she was unable to agre...
Yeah fair. I just found it a bit frustrating because I wanted to see people's ideas on the matter and a few contributors ans I were getting somewhere ...
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