self organisation is probabilistic inevitability in a system where there is "free chaos" where certain states confer greater or less stability to them...
I see what you mean and I agree. There is certainly a balance to be had between the desire to control our circumstances and the trust/faith in the eco...
Haha well life does live with something a little messy - the universe. Life tries to cleans it up and tidy and this is reflected in the life's sustain...
Is it though? I mean, the continuity of life - "the living status" for the last 3.7 billion years begs to differ. I understand that it operates within...
I agree that nature is one unanimous seamless and connected whole. Nothing in pure isolation. And that by us defining things, restricting them to disc...
The definition of a vacuum. And the definition of spacetime. And the definition of object permanence and it's implications. Sure we can talk about spa...
Words are important. Sadly I'm not a mind reader. So they're all we have to communicate ideas to one another. I'm not trying to play word games, I'm t...
So if I say I hope the wind blows easterly tomorrow, what is the lack of courage here? What do we say about lacking courage when we hope about things ...
How so? Can you elaborate your views here. For one, one has little to no need or use for hope when one is fully content with how things are going. Hop...
Well therein lies a difference. No one need work in a sweatshop to explore what it would be like intellectually. If we had to do everything ourselves ...
Yes. Like most people I know what depression really is because I've experienced it myself. I also know what it's like to self hate/loathe, feel shame,...
I could agree with that. One must explore the worst extremes of the human condition in order to understand the best extreme. There's no reward without...
Well. I'm sure this is true, no doubt. However it's only one side. People also enjoy other peoples enjoyment. So much so that laughter and smiles can ...
Wow. This is a remarkable post. I enjoyed it. Lots to unpack. Or nothing at all to unpack, depends how you understand it. "If you don't know where you...
Excellent point Art48! I'm inclined to agree. I have been sad sometimes but it is often very clarifying and cause for self reflection or for examining...
Defining features of humans. We cook our food. The degree to which we can manipulate and investigate our environment. We are space goers as well as de...
forgive me but I'm not entirely following. This could be me just being dim witted here haha. What you're saying is pressure, temp and volume cannot be...
Well, in essence triads are relationships that describe specific features of an underlying phenomenon. For example: pressure, temperature and volume a...
Etiher it is fundamental to the universe, or it is an emergent product of complexity. I fail to see a third option. Nope. I don't believe I treated an...
Tell that to the scientists that are investigating how the brain gives rise to subjective experience. They can objectively prove components of a perso...
The religious have a fundamental end principle - "God did it" with no objective explanatory basis. On the other hand scientists have no fundamental th...
What about this: If "instrumentalism" is not that which is absolutely/undeniably true, but that which best theorises/hypothesises and predicts phenome...
Ooooh yes! Indeed. I like this approach. On one side we have subjectivity as the source of all things including objects (thesis). On the other we have...
And yet everything in your body, toenails and such included, are fundamentally reduced to physical units - atoms. To physical and objective components...
Damn 180 Proof. That's a concise and pretty good summary. No complaints here. Bravo. What might we say about object - object interaction? I realised t...
The ultimate sin is forgetting how to love yourself despite everything else going on around you. The only thing you have any true and enduring control...
Then who am I speaking to. Haha. "who". The probability of subjective existence is "self-evident" because you and I are "selves". This doesn't need ex...
Because there is no consensus yet. Quantum physics, newtonian and relative physics are not reconciled officially as far as I know. And they should be ...
The only issue with a "know it all" in the sense of the proverb "nobody likes a know it all" is that we aren't them. If everyone has a mental paradigm...
You're correct. I agree. If they were physics would be complete and a Toe would be established. They are however "closer" to that which doesn't change...
Well I don't think linear time actually exists outside of perception. Only frequencies and repetitive cycles. So a sense of "present moment" , as well...
Unless that fundamental truth explains why multiverses cannot exist for one consistent reality to exist. Or maybe if a fundamental truth explains that...
Well I let them on to discuss or conceptualise whatever they want. Science is about exploring possibilities right? They sure do make it hard for thems...
1). The probability of this universe existing is 1 2). The universe contains objects. 3). Humans are one such set of objects 4). Humans are also subje...
lastly, I believe that physical properties and chemical properties emerged by natural selection - favouring stability or "non-self violation" whilst m...
Well my answer to that is, my definition of the universe as the entirety of all things. The "Multiverse" for me is still "the universe". Because if th...
An abstraction that explains the concrete nature of how things work in all fields of study. Sure. It is a concept I'll agree, but one that reflects ho...
If that is the case how to we know the mass of the sun, the strength of gravity or the speed of light? If universal constants, laws and things that ar...
When an entity interacts with the world around it, this entity is an finite and distinct object within the whole system. For which all interactions ev...
No. Because again, we are referring here to temporal truths. Truths that rely on time to be true, cannot be known from within the passage of time, at ...
Well if we assume a universal truth exists then it somehow would have to give rise to both logic and irrationality as well as paradox. Because if it i...
well it's difficult to say. Generally speakin, cancer of any kind is seen to be lethal if untreated. And thus detrimental not only to the individual b...
Truth cannot be a lie. Otherwise the foundations of our court/judiciary system is completely faulty and evidence and justice are total nonsense. Truth...
We do not know that. Because recital or "memory" of a martyrs teachings are slowly and inevitably corrupted by the personal bias of recountants, human...
I don't believe that is true. Many people leave an posthumously influential legacy. If they didn't, revolutionists, great thinkers, or superb leaders ...
If there is plurality, then they're not absolute. An absolute truth is singular. Otherwise it's not absolute any more than a cat purred today is one t...
Of course they cant know all truths at all times. Because we don't exist everywhere, all at once. We are not eternal witnesses. But some truths govern...
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