T_Clark

The theme of incomprehensively huge libraries, either finite or infinite, is pretty common in fantasy books. The problem usually comes down to how to ...

Although I don't know the history of the word, it seems to me that, before relativity, space was just an expression of common sense and classical non-...

I looked it up and got "Council on Aging, Town of Sharon Massachusetts."

Been done - "Minority Report." Good movie.

Careful ST, now you're stepping on us Taoists - wu wei, acting without acting.

Ah, yes. Prohibition. That's the ticket.

Other people have expressed many different opinions about metaphysics throughout this fairly long thread. For me, your statement expresses a metaphysi...

I'm not sure what to say to such a statement. Maybe someone else, e.g. @"180 Proof", @"Banno", or @"tim wood", will be able to help. Again, you've los...

In my response to the post from Wayfarer you reference, I acknowledged that you were good about stating what you meant by "meta-physics." I had also a...

When I was in my late teens, "Summerhill" had a big influence on my understanding of human nature and what it means for me to be person. Neill was a p...

Yes, but it was knee-jerk, pointless, witless, needless, gratuitous, and not funny, so that makes it ok.

You're right, but what a westerner might call vagueness, mysticism, contrariness, or irony is a real part of eastern philosophies.

I misunderstood you. I'm not sure that's what @"Bozo", I mean @"Banno", meant to say.

So, you do not consider the Standard Model a "technical notion?" I believe that was me. That's a different discussion. If you don't understand that, t...

The OP specifically identifies enlightenment as discussed in both eastern and western philosophies.

I identified it as a hypothesis, not a fact. The explanation I found indicates that below that size, addition of energy, as would be required to take ...

Not true. The TV takes information from outside and then processes it to form the image and sound we see as the images. You would not be able to under...

I understand the concern. I think it's not just that they cannot be observed, it is my understanding that they can not exist independently. From the p...

It is my understanding that the universe is generally seen as finite but unbounded. The analog often used is a sphere. If we were on the surface, whic...

Every day, billions of people watch TV without any understanding of how it works. They don't think it's particularly mysterious. I don't see matter as...

With all the razzamatazz we have to deal with in American politics, how nice not to have to care what a politician does. I don't understand why the re...

In my responses I have noted that, although he uses "metaphysics" in a way I don't think is appropriate, he is careful to define what he means by the ...

Quarks have mass. I do remember reading that the mass of the quarks making up larger subatomic particles; i.e. protons, neutrons, and mesons; add up t...

My only complaint has been your confusing misuse of the word "metaphysics." As for your ideas themselves, I don't have strong feelings either way.

I didn't understand this argument before, and I don't understand it now.

I don't understand why that matters. I don't see any evidence that the brain is mysterious, just that we don't understand important things about how i...

I used this last week. I like it so much, I'll use it again. To the same extent that your TV set is identical to "Gilligan's Island."

For a second, I thought you were talking about the members of the forum.

It's not brutal at all. Just sad and a bit uplifting at the end. Those Australians, all stiff upper lip and all.

You can define words any way you want. You can define a dog turd a large breed of poultry, but please don't invite me to Thanksgiving dinner at your h...

Why should the experience of an apple be the same for all of us. Why should the feeling of pain be the same for all of us. People have shared experien...

That was just me being cranky. Sorry.

As you've discovered, the forum is imperfect. Welcome.

News from Boston: A woman who died after being injured by a comfort animal at a farm in Bolton, Massachusetts, was repeatedly rammed by a sheep, polic...

I think it's a good idea. White people can only play white people. Asians can only play Asians. Blacks can only play black people. Hispanics can only ...

Perhaps a little of your own thought.

You made the same comment with the same list back around page 5 or 6 of this thread.

To late. I looked at it. I'm melting, melting.....

I don't see that as a surprise. You and I agree quite often on the forum. I don't know what Peter Hoffman would say about the manifesto. Probably woul...

I gave an example in my post - Hoffmann. His proposed mechanisms seem really plausible to me, which is beside the point. Fact is that reputable scient...

Good book. Great movie. "I think I'd like to have that tea now."

I think it's tied up with distrust and disdain for the idea of mysticism.

I think it comes from ignorance and an inability to understand or imagine how someone might think differently about the world than they do.

It has been calculated that a million monkeys typing would take more than the life of the universe to type one of Shakespeare's plays.

I'm with @"Janus". There's another way of looking at things. Much simpler and less fraught with misunderstandings than what you are talking about. As ...

I think Mr. @"Cheshire" just means that he doesn't understand and can't imagine what is meant by "Enlightenment" in the context we are discussing it. ...

Yes, I agree, although I think there would also be value in discussing end times visions, whether or not we think the world will end soon.

I'm with @"Tom Storm". I thought a discussion of end times visions would be interesting, but you seem to be waving a flag of surrender to despair and ...

16.4 stone.

Come on HH, you know the sense in which you are using "enlightenment" is different than how others on this thread are using it. You are intentionally ...