Wayfarer

You’re confusing your food processor with your word processor again, Smith.

What 180 says is right. See https://aeon.co/ideas/i-believe-because-it-is-absurd-christianitys-first-meme

Sorry but I believe Quanta’s article has it right, I think you’re the one misunderstanding the issue. (My physics is rudimentary but my English compre...

Your OP is predicated on the premise that fulfilling preferences, or desires, or needs, is the summum bonum, the only real good. But I'm questioning t...

https://www.science.org/content/article/china-s-quantum-satellite-achieves-spooky-action-record-distance ‘Better than random’ I took to mean a re-conf...

There's no dummy's guide to the Parmenides, if that's what you're asking. It's one of the foundational texts of the whole tradition of Western metaphy...

That is an egological point of view. Not egocentric, necessarily, but the perspective of one individual as dinstinct from another. You're depicting ab...

--------------------- The article I referred to was not about teleportation but about using the principles of entanglement for secure communications. ...

**There's a thread on this topic, this one should be merged.**

We all have a culturally conditioned sense of what is natural, normal, and so on. WIthin our cultural setting, the 'supernatural' is by definition a k...

Here's a story from 2017 about using entanglement to secure communications: Einstein clung to the realist view. He absolutely believed that the Univer...

The legend of Joseph of Cupertino. It seems secular authorities aren't the only ones dismissive of 'the supernatural' (although in the end Joseph was ...

I think it's a valid argument about the limitations of naturalism even if not the existence of God. There seems to be an almost universal assumption t...

Suppose life on earth began because of primitive amino acids and other proto-genetic material arrived on a comet. That hypothesis is called 'panspermi...

I misunderstood you, but it’s a rather tortuous analogy, let’s leave it.

You can’t kill a classroom full of schoolchildren with chewing tobacco, although the subtlety of the argument might elude you.

It's a truly vicious circle - more guns breeding more fear, spuring more guns. And the NRA circles, feeding off the corpses like the vultures they are...

One I did read some years back, completely busted the myth of the 'good guy with a gun' that the wretched NRA frequently talks up. Their propaganda is...

What happened in the aftermath of the Port Arthur Massacre in Tasmania, 1996, is often referenced by gun control advocates in the USA. The then-Prime ...

Occurences of mass shootings, USA, Y 2000 - present /uploads/resized/files/1p/my3ntpxryy8ry5zb.png Rest assured, the perpertrator of the next atrocity...

They are. I'm into this book at the moment https://siliconthebook.com/ Mind you, the author of this book doesn't see reality as 'illogical and weird' ...

If you mean, you have no idea of what a Buddha really knows, then I would certainly agree. Which brings up the question, why raise an OP about this to...

https://learningenglish.voanews.com/a/monkeypox-possibly-spread-in-europe-at-large-dance-parties/6586045.html Personally, I would avoid events of this...

The Buddha’s knowledge surpasses logic. However, that doesn’t invalidate logic.

Pretty deep analysis! (I've just started reading Afrikan Spir's PDF, which I downloaded from archive.org, very well-formatted with bookmarks intact. S...

The verse below is taken verbatim from one of the early Buddhist texts, and is often said to be the origin for N?g?rjuna's Madhyamika (MIddle-way) sch...

https://www.smh.com.au/national/queensland/a-pleasant-surprise-the-niche-party-challenging-pauline-hanson-in-qld-20220523-p5anop.html :pray:

A Wikipedia entry on Catu?ko?i (which is the method in question) in Buddhist philosophy is here. I think the OP suffers from lack of context. The 'met...

'“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic” ~ Arthur C Clarke. I suspect that there's an element of genuine magic involved...

Yes, but given that it is a principle held dear by physicalism, and that it's a closed system, then the point of it is that it allows for nothing othe...

(I've found a well-formatted translation of his major work, which I'm going to try and get around to studying.)

If you mean, a human infant kept in an isolation tank will never learn English, then, sure. But that's not really the point. Expose any sentient being...

That is similar to the much-vaunted 'principle of causal closure', which is that every event has a physical cause. But that is where the observer effe...

Epistemic priority is not necessarily temporal priority. It's not as if human infants are born with the ability to reason, but they clearly born with ...

‘ 40 of the 76 Senate seats are being decided at this election.’ Hadn’t realized that. Oh well.

Can’t see Robert’s name on the AEC list of QLD candidates….

Is he? How disappointing. Thought he’d gone.

Drat. Looks like Pauline Hanson will scrape in (conditional on her getting past COVID) in the last place on the QLD Senate Ticket. But at least the im...

From that, you can see the Buddhist influence on his thinking even if he's not a Buddhist.

actually not a very good collection of Mullah Nasriddin stories, but I’ve heard some great ones over the years.

I take it as basically a form of nihilism. In the distant past, it was supposed by philosophers that everything possessed an essential nature, which o...

Accordingly I’ll do you the courtesy of not answering your question. He also says that one of the major themes of the metaphysics is the analysis of t...

Yes, I agree that 'what it is like-ness' is a very awkward and indirect expression. I think a much more succinct word for what he is trying to describ...

No, that's not it. Check this out.

I got that book when it came out. I also got Krishnamurti's book with the Bohm dialogues when it came out. I'm dubious about his hidden-variables theo...

It's more a matter of history and the circumstances of The Enlightenment. Some years back when I was first posting, there was a site with an excerpt f...

which is why, I think, 20th Century communism was more than simply a political movement, it was akin to a kind of religion or secular religion or at t...

That’s a very interesting point. What ‘naturalism’ has come to mean is ‘can be accommodated within the epistemic framework of science’. And science, o...

Folks are generally empiricist and realist by upbringing and cultural inclination. As Bryan Magee comments: Indeed. No coincidence that my initiation ...

Agree. And also that dogmatic materialism and religious fundamentalism are kind of mirror images - not in terms of content but attitude. I don't go al...