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energy is finite in quantity but infinite in quality as it is the action of change, of transformation. Nothing is infinite in a specific moment, only ...
May 30, 2021 at 17:46
The way I see it is that time for the purposes of the external world minus consciousness time doesn’t really exist. Things just change. Constant creat...
May 30, 2021 at 17:45
Arguments for: protection of ones health, protection of fellow man, protection of the vulnerable, collaboration and cooperation, developing trust, fac...
May 30, 2021 at 11:08
Over all agree I would prefer to (and luckily do) live in a scientific based modern age than the barbarism of past societies. But I would like to make...
May 30, 2021 at 10:55
Yes indeed perhaps they would worship them. But I can’t help but feel they would be assassinated to the lament of their followers. After all we have c...
May 29, 2021 at 14:43
I wonder do morons have a low threshold of tolerance for smart alecs? Haha. The only type of idiocy I think is moronic is blatant refusal to acknowled...
May 29, 2021 at 08:00
Again another very valid point I feel. How would we identify them as human if they don’t have an intrinsic human quality - ignorance. We tend to belie...
May 29, 2021 at 07:38
True. But i feel people would kind of be like “oh why are you doing a thesis on such and such just ask person X they already know the answer you’re lo...
May 29, 2021 at 07:31
Yeah this is the line of thinking I was looking to discuss. That’s interesting I had the same kind of unnerving feeling that people would hate such a ...
May 29, 2021 at 07:24
No I don’t mean google. Google is not a person for a start and secondly it is not omniscient. It provides a lot of misinformation and useless informat...
May 29, 2021 at 07:15
Very true. However you could consider them as hyper-empathetic because they are fully and completely aware of each of our individual limited capacitie...
May 28, 2021 at 22:01
Yes but I didn’t ask about people who know more than you do/are more intelligent perhaps, of course they exist, I’m talking about someone who is ultim...
May 28, 2021 at 21:59
yes this paradox is exactly the type of thing I was looking for. When is a heap of sand not a heap Is a great analogy.
May 19, 2021 at 11:13
Not really lol. I mean we are talking about personal beliefs in a god or lack thereof so obviously personal opinion is one facet. All you said is very...
May 17, 2021 at 06:52
I guess that’s up to your interpretation. I think it’s maybe a comparison between to things that seemingly don’t elicit information or behaviours as a...
May 16, 2021 at 20:51
I’m not saying it isn’t chemically water. Of course it is. I’m saying as unit of water it does not have the properties we attribute to a fluid or crys...
May 16, 2021 at 20:49
Yeah but when you say this presumably you have a preconceived idea of the god to which you are rejecting? Like would it not be more accurate to say “I...
May 16, 2021 at 10:54
I think atheism is a false concept on a rational basis. Because there is an issue with the official definition in the dictionary which renders the ter...
May 16, 2021 at 10:15
Question: why the existence of the absurd or the concept of absurdity then? Why would anything irrational exist at all? Or do you believe that everyth...
May 16, 2021 at 09:05
That makes a lot of sense actually! How does a language master it’s descriptive power? By simply absorbing what it doesn’t already have from other lan...
May 15, 2021 at 07:35
Well think in the sense of structure. Would it be easier to go from a highly structured and grammatical language (like German) where say every noun ha...
May 15, 2021 at 07:27
I can think of several word couples with inherent gender like the word “male/female” “girl” and “boy” “man/woman” “king/queen” “husband/wife” “daughte...
May 15, 2021 at 07:16
Can you get -1 +1 (something) from zero (nothing)? Does the equation balance ? Or you can think of it this way: either “nothing cannot exist” (because...
May 14, 2021 at 18:46
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Photon. A Photon is finite and quantised (Limited) but has no mass (cannot occupy space) Black holes: occupy space because they have a gravitational f...
May 14, 2021 at 18:44
By the phrase “spooky action at a distance” Einstein was describing (rather skeptically/ cynically) the wave- particle duality demonstrated by the dou...
May 14, 2021 at 18:25
If there was only black empty space it would be true nothing. Because there wouldn’t be something there to observe it as something. But you couldn’t e...
May 14, 2021 at 08:08
Whilst I agree with you in a general sense I would like to clarify my thoughts on the matter. I don’t believe the boundaries of religion and science a...
May 14, 2021 at 07:49
No it was simply one example of how no discipline scientific or otherwise can ascertain a clear defined boundary between self and non self. Autoimmune...
May 13, 2021 at 07:11
Lol. No we did learn it in school also. And I’ve never questioned it’s validity as it makes sense. I suppose what I’m getting it is there is a conflic...
May 12, 2021 at 19:31
I do kind of see what you’re getting at and there’s some personal truth in there definitely but a few statements raised my brown and perhaps you might...
May 12, 2021 at 19:19
ah. I see I have misunderstood the definition of irrational numbers. Not so much whether it is infinite or not but whether it can be expressed as a fr...
May 12, 2021 at 18:47
Interesting. Wouldn’t that mean that there’s no end point to increasing accuracy? If we suppose that perfection is reaching the point at which no furt...
May 12, 2021 at 18:34
Some theists believe the bear = house. What say you then? I’m not disagreeing nor agreeing merely curious. For some it’s an argument where one says no...
May 12, 2021 at 18:04
I absolutely agree. The education system in most countries presupposes the idea that “we must make children productive functional participants in the ...
May 12, 2021 at 08:33
Well true. I guess when we consider that we have a limited span of attention then technically every “new curiosity” is the abolishment of a previous o...
May 11, 2021 at 19:41
Thanks for the book recommendation will look into it and get a copy. It’s interesting the topics he deals with because I myself being an informal Phil...
May 11, 2021 at 19:34
Pretty much yeah haha. I wonder how bored adrenaline junkies feel when they’re not jumping from heights etc
May 11, 2021 at 19:16
Do you think maybe the fast paced working life of living in a society/ collective may be propagated by the entertainment industry for this reason? We ...
May 11, 2021 at 15:49
Yes I can understand that. I also remember being in my room bored to tears as a child (well more as a teen) and it can be intolerable. I also agree th...
May 11, 2021 at 15:33
I found your answer very insightful and enlightening. I had never considered how wonder persists despite receiving answers to the questions that perha...
May 11, 2021 at 15:18
Yes you’re right, it’s qualitative not quantitative. The brains of depressives still have the same energy usage as those without depression it’s more ...
May 11, 2021 at 15:07
No I don’t classify sex as inherently unhealthy. But I’m using it in the context of the brains preference for either immediate or delayed gratificatio...
May 11, 2021 at 14:39
Haha yeah it’s definitely a path we should explore - to make loose analogies between the mind and body in terms of basic needs - to gain that dimensio...
May 11, 2021 at 14:12
I understand what you mean but it is an inherent limit of language. We all use the same terms but due to “personality” and “individual identity and ex...
May 09, 2021 at 10:10
This presupposes humans are somehow outside the realm of nature; despite the facts that would suggest otherwise: chemistry in our body operates the sa...
May 04, 2021 at 08:03
well yes in a way I see what you’re saying. But then this would be a question of the diminishing returns of free will... that each choice reduces the ...
May 03, 2021 at 20:18
Im inclined to agree in the sense of relativity. For example if the spectrum of achievement is 0-100% ie from sad, depressed and impotent to satisfied...
May 02, 2021 at 18:05
I find this interesting that you understand entropy to be energies Achilles heal. I actually believe it’s energies greatest feat. “Rate” = energy/ tim...
April 18, 2021 at 20:53
“Everyness”might serve better haha :p
April 18, 2021 at 19:42
If we take it in a strictly matter- energy paradigm... whereby ecosystems exchange energy and matter through cycles of life and death. And seeing as b...
April 18, 2021 at 15:21