Thank you TL, I've been walking my butt off, everything is up and down like a roller coaster here, the views are fantastic. Eating a lot of splendidly...
Morality as a human phenomena can be described objectively, anthropologically, as part of a social science. Max Weber, "Objectivity of Social Science ...
The case of the Colorado baker who refused to bake a wedding cake for a same sex couple is going to the Supreme Court here in US. Bloomberg summarizes...
OK, then the question becomes almost theological. Can a machine be or become a moral agent or are their actions only derivative of the moral agency of...
I guess in order to ground your position you would have to detail how life under Machine rule is a just, good life. If life in a vat can't be justifie...
I think the revolutionary would argue that they are at war, and in war ethics is suspended for the sake of a just cause which is to over throw the exi...
There is a difference between what a revolutionary does and what a terrorist does. The revolutionary has a military objective, such as the freeing of ...
Isn't democracy the political form of justice. and legitimacy the normative (and descriptive) the form of the justification of order. I like Rainier F...
And China? It is close to USA in GDP, but no where near US in defense spending. It has maintained it at 1.3% of GDP for last several years. Less than ...
Please provide reference. I looked but did not see this information. I have no way to compare it, it may be that these are excellent results compared ...
Some thoughts: The rich get richer and the poor get richer. Where is the argument against economic inequality or is it just assumed to be the worst ca...
I guess I was not clear. Unconditional love is unobtainable in the sense of a realized state. I think there may be moments, but these moments are rare...
It is an ideal, something to aspire to, which may not be within human reach, and if reachable perhaps only momentary, but still a good goal. Similar t...
Some argue that there are a hierarchy of goods, so some moral dilemmas can be solved, as Plato does in beginning of his Republic. Where he asserts tha...
Yes, what we perceive is only perceived though the mind. We cannot know what a thing in itself is as it is, we can only know it as we experience it. S...
Good and bad are normative concepts of valuation , true and false as you have presented them, are analytic concepts, which are true or false based sol...
Tinkerbell Effect....if you believe hard enough it will effect what happens, all the research suggest it works, because you believe it will work. The ...
Lewis Carroll: "Self-consciousness: beyond the looking-glass and what dogs found there". Inspired some scientists to test dogs for self awareness, but...
Got power back on thank you FP&L. I thought about Interventions when I read MU's post. How people who got sucked into a cult, were then abducted, rest...
[reply="Agustino;104726 No, if you are found guilty of a crime, you are subject to whatever the judge deems appropriate, which is true in most countri...
Sorry, can't participate in conversation... Irma done me wrong. . The "I", "me" distinction is based on William James discussion namely ‘I’ (self-as-k...
He is questioning the GOP's basic presumptions such as there has to be a debt ceiling, following his own logic, not listening to what his advisers hav...
There is a way to think of this as a narrative process starting with the initial narrative we tell our selves, the difference between "I"(Author) and ...
I think the action in EWS is presented as linear, but it is actually a reenactment, which only becomes evident as the story progresses. I think someth...
Of course if the notion of a shared inter-subjectivity implies the co creation of new shared reality (a third kind), as integral, then unconsciously o...
I liked their program very much. It suggests to me that communication is more than the exchange of information. That in communication the language use...
Just taxation requires a moral theory of justice. All cooperative societies have costs or expenses. How these costs and expenses are to be justly dist...
Yes, did you catch Elon Musk's tweet from yesterday? He and 116 other international technicians have asked the UN to ban autonomous weapons, killer ro...
Here is a road map for an emotional, creative, social, AI. /uploads/resized/files/8m/5asifvllxle03boz.png Military applications are frightening, Artic...
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