I feel that the underlying urge of getting to the bottom or the end or the beginning of it all - whether by cosmology on one end or particle physics o...
Just before it launched, I think I posted a link to a story about one of the design engineers who was throwing up with stress in the lead-up to the la...
JWST got through all 344 single-point failures - things that, if they had gone wrong, would have doomed the mission. So - so far it is going exactly a...
Donald Hoffman also says this, but he draws a different conclusion from it. 'Do we see the world as it truly is? In The Case Against Reality, pioneeri...
whataboutism /?w?t??ba?t?z(?)m/ nounBRITISH the technique or practice of responding to an accusation or difficult question by making a counter-accusat...
There might have been other, alternative models they could have adopted, but a corrupt authoritarianism is not a valid alternative. I think the world ...
Which was mounted purely and simply as the only possible response to Russia's flagrantly criminal invasion of a peaceful neighbouring country, short o...
It's not unsubstantiated. Up to 15,000 casualties, five generals killed, hundreds of tanks destroyed; no major city taken, military advance bogged dow...
I haven't participated in this thread much. I've made a few comments, generally along the lines of expressing horror at what is happening, which were ...
So if Russia kills or displaces most of the population and practically destroys the country, then do you call that 'success'? I'm saying that even if ...
My reasoning is that Putin's forces may succeed in finally subduing the Ukrainian army, although so far they have not done so. So in military terms, h...
You can't believe everything you read in the media. No kidding. But the images we've been seeing of entire regions completely gutted by long-range mis...
I did no such thing. I said this: I wrote it, and I stand by it. As for 'backing the wrong horse' that is a comment on your repeated suggestion that P...
So it's really innaccurate to describe what is published by the non-Russian media as propoganda. Sure there are biases, hidden agendas, there are West...
If this forum were in Russia, and the participants expressed negative views about the war, or even called it a war, it would be shut down immediately ...
I posted a story about a 96 year old Buchenwald survivor killed by a Russian missile. This was labelled 'propoganda'. I expressed the view that Russia...
Which might have happened, had liberalization been successful after the end of the USSR. But it manifestly was not, so having not been successful in t...
The Russians haven't succeeded in occupying Ukraine. All they can do is pulverise it with missiles, which is a criminal act. If they drive most of the...
Not every story has two sides. Climate change denialists don't have a 'fair story to tell', nor do anti-vaccination activists, nor apologists for the ...
:rofl: That's hilarious. I view the entire episode as a disaster, a fiasco, and historic mistake, and can only hope that it culimates in Putin's downf...
There haven't been many updates of late. I daresay much of what is discovered will only really be comprehensible to specialists. They're going to have...
The Russian campaign is arguably already a total failure. According to sober estimates they've lost 15,000 troops, that is more than in their entire A...
This quotation needs context and attribution to be meaningful - who said it, why did they say it, what do they say it means, what do their critics say...
But you haven’t laid consciousness on the table. You’ve laid a conscious sentient being on the table. Then indeed cognitive science and neuroscience c...
Can’t, actually. That is a metaphor that must fail, as you then say. A Guardian article just popped up in my newsfeed: So - question - before this ‘ho...
I think Wittgenstein has a kind-of-religious side, but that it is more implied than stated. That statement I called out from @"Angelo Cannata" explain...
An essay published by Philosophy Now on Wittgenstein and positivism: Wittgenstein,Tolstoy and the Folly of Logical Positivism, Stuart Greenstreet. An ...
Right. To me that suggests an intrinsic connection between maths and the world. I'm interested in the idea that scientific laws exist where logical ne...
I think the answer is, of course. The 'Axial Age' is identified as the centuries from around 8th to 3rd BC. At that time, of course, the civilizations...
I've been interested in John Hick and often quote from his online article Who or What is God? I'm religiously unaffiliated although I have a long inte...
I'm inclined to agree. Where this started for me was with the realisation of the reality of numbers. This realisation was that while all phenomenal th...
A major digression, but I don't believe the nominalists ever properly understood the idea of the forms. A form is not a 'vague abstract entity' or an ...
:clap: @"Tom Storm" - you may recall discussion of this very point in another thread yesterday. Schrodinger is known to have been a perceptive reader ...
Hello, maggot. :yikes: Sorry, your honour , I was drunk. What I meant to say is that Western Culture has assiduously rejected any idea of meaning on t...
https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/220321174441-01-boris-romanchenko-exlarge-169.jpg A 96-year-old Holocaust survivor, Borys Romanchenko, was kill...
The problem here, again, is 'objectification'. There is no 'that' in the sense you're gesturing towards. The subject is not 'some mysterious entity', ...
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