TiredThinker

Likewise. Antiaging research gives me hope of functioning again.

That does make intelligence interesting if it actually impedes survival. It must than serve a different purpose. Hopefully one that makes us special e...

How do you mean? And there is also the specificity of a creature. A bacteria may live over many years of generations, but will also have many mutation...

Maybe both, but I assume simple to complex happened first.

I certainly often wondered what it would be to have a graduate degree. I assume the great cost of getting one is related to the supposed promise of a ...

Well evolution does mention the color of a beetle that doesn't get eaten because it goes unseen, so purpose is addressed in general evolution thinking...

Their mutual goal isn't to either explain how we got here or where we might be going?

Well their purpose can't be simply life as we are far more complex than the minimum requirement of being alive. I am curious of the other forces that ...

Looks like interesting reading. Thanks.

I just mean as far as a locator of how life got to where it is now. I realize creationism is baseless, but its purpose is common somehow with evolutio...

Ok. How do we know that light can only travel at exactly 1 speed? Massful things can vary in speed. How can light have only 1 speed? Perhaps light tha...

I mean sense of self and requirements of survival and thriving, but not necessarily a sense of importance. Just action towards own goals without thoug...

"Intriguingly, the ego has this burning desire to be part of something bigger, but the catch is it must negate itself for this. It's not about me anym...

How do we determine what we should strive to have for ourselves that isn't selfish (assuming existence itself isn't selfish) and isn't taking from oth...

My mistake. Conformal cyclic cosmology

Although such research is questionable, those that study reincarnation stories have not found evidence for karma. Only for reincarnation through alleg...

I think Roger Penrose suggested a cyclic universe of multiple big bangs? Was that chaos theory? Perhaps there can be multiple definitions of time or d...

Biden has often had to choose between being compassionate and being Catholic. And ironically people stopped going to church for football.

I know. Lol.

As it turns out, most vision problems require much more than lens. Lol. The human eye has many fallible parts unfortunately.

I think self analysis is pointless in terms of free will. We can't trust this subjective perspective anymore than anecdotes about out of body experien...

Do arguments for free will typically need a spiritual aspect? Like a mind i dependent of the physical world yet that can affect it? Or is it just enou...

Are you sure it is binary? Either free will or determinism? Doesn't determinism imply that that exact end state of the universe needs to be a particul...

I wonder which gratitude is most important. If I were perpetually grateful I'd be exhausted and feel unworthy of everything and start to stop driving ...

Putting God aside. Do we fear the direction our psyche might go in if we don't take stock in things of a positive nature that we receive that we didn'...

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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Jint5kjoy6I Does this simple quantum example defend the idea of free will? That things aren't certain even in the short ...

Horrible state of things. Particularly that screaming teenager thinking he knows anything about anything.

Wouldn't past wars be an incentive to seek more peace? I don't think North Korea gets out much and they are very military oriented. Not sure the last ...

Well if this actually is an empire maybe we should work harder on that towards a more democratic society?

I assume the right to bare arms (as vague as it is) was placed as the 2nd amendment because of fear of the United States becoming an empire like Engla...

Anyone know what page my post was transferred to after it was moved from my own topic page?

https://www.simplypsychology.org/wundt.html I just remember something along the lines of Wilhelm using a metronome to determine a most desirable speed...

My philosophy professor gave us the terms theist, one who believes in God(s), atheist, one who doesn't believe in God(s), and a "super atheist", one f...

How do we know "choice" as it seems to be isn't just animal mechanisms? Pure instinct pretending to be more?

Well we can see atoms or at least the protons and we can measure gravity waves with special equipment, but we haven't yet measured or even defined our...

If we are 4 dimensional and contain the entire snake of frames from conception to death, what keeps that snake from spanning the entirety of time? Eve...

Aren't our behaviors and choices somewhat guided by nature, culture, and how we perceive the world has treated us? Under different circumstances would...

I guess the last thing left after everything else is stripped away that can longer be divided and contains the sum of everything that matters to us as...

If we achieved fair as defined by that image would events still occur or would it be like universal cooling whereby entropy affectively ends?

Would an all knowing and all powerful being need to make upgrades? And couldn't they fix all issues in a space of time and in a way that it goes unnot...

How do you measure the gratuitousness of the human suffering? We aren't all offing ourselves? I don't understand your statement about creating us sick...

Do we know the will of this god to know if we are doing the right things to the world they created?

You speak of some religious references. We don't know if there is a hell. Buddhists believe in a temporary hell and Jews don't believe in a hell at al...

Assume to compare philosophers by their generational time period. I'm just wondering if there are themes.

Is this a silly question?

Are our personification roughly identical whether we imagine god(s) or a non conscious force?

Well age research into to epigenetics has made progress giving people a biological age separate from chronological age. And some have managed to rever...

My question is basically regarding our limitations for imagining our origins as well as the nature of our world in general. What we may tend to projec...

So nobody would spend more time learning handwriting, art, math, and all the stuff we currently only get bare minimums assuming most won't be used to ...