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Einstein's God was Nature, or the logical creator of nature, like Plato's God was the god of logic Zeus. That sounds about right to me. Scientists fre...

Yet the most simple and obvious can have the deepest implications. PI, e, -1 are only simple numbers. But over millennia additional meanings were deve...

Time is not the only variable. Social constructs are not universal. That would be too simplistic. Social or professional groups of insiders create mea...

"accepted answer" That's amusing. Accepted implies that there is an authority who has the capacity and power (dynamis) to accept and to make accepted....

Ah thanks, I was confusing the gravitational hillocks at L1-L3 with the vales at L4-L5.

Relatively speaking, how slow is slow and how fast is fast?

They could be parked in a convenient but busy location. There's a lot of tiny debris that gets caught and swirls about in those gravitational low spot...

Parts would be too simple. That might do for something material that already had defined parts, but that would make the question of events moot from t...

Which means that before about 2 billion years ago iron rust was green but after that it became reddish. Should that colors be called greed or redeen?

I think you are taking the chart for granted without examining some of its detail. First, all statistics represent some view of the past, and the past...

Let's hope it will be over 95°F in West Virginia every day until this bill passes.

This is a mathematically formal approach that seeks to find data points of a model of a physical path? Or does the model apply to a swirling (nominall...

For comparison, here is Hubble's image of the same galaxy M74 in Pisces The two pictures show somewhat different views and need to be digitally overla...

Due to cost of catastrophic failures of several early design nuclear facilities that destroyed their surrounding communities for at least 50 years to ...

Thank you for bringing Rouse's book to attention. A see that a review is available at NDPR.

Do you also have a short abstract of the article?

Take it as a compliment. Imaginative thinking is not the strength of most physics forums. Not only is your idea interesting but it is sound without th...

It is true that 1=1 in the world defined by the definitions and rules of mathematics. The rest of us just accept this truth on blind faith based on th...

Absolutely, But according to that graphic, CO2 level and temperature are cyclical covariates steady over the past 800,000 years

Hi Bob, In your reply to Cuthbert's germane remarks you seem to me to have replied, (and pardon my extraction thereof what might appeal to me) My impr...

For comparison, here's the Hubble Deep Field image. The increase in density and resolution with tremendous detail will add, after spectral analysis, a...

and only for us?

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As they say, . The objects which appear the deepest red are likely the furthest and oldest. Though I would prefer if eventually some of those distract...

The existence of an external world may be without doubt but its nature can and should be doubted by all philosophers. Just because common sense makes ...

I'm the worst person to ask for a comment on this because I believe that what you're proposing is ultimately illogical. Not that people haven't sugges...

And a good point it is. The word dialectic has taken flight in many contexts each with its own aims and methods both in philosophy and in other fields...

For beginners, "forty million Frenchmen can't be wrong !?" For Kant, For Plato,

Miles to go before I sleep

Coming from JWST, and

Those are two things. War and genocide is in the blood of the species. What we should hope for there is limited curtailment of this drive in favor of ...

I'm open to improvement. What do you suggest? Russian-Chinese hegemony, or perhaps free-for-all regional conflicts throughout the planet, either of wh...

Looked at that way, we'd be approaching reality in a dangerously sober manner. The fighting and killing is over whose truth/lies justice/barbarism bec...

What is the difference between Cratylus's and Wittgenstein's logically 2-valued silence and Nagarjuna's 4-valued silence? How is Nagarjuna's silence w...

If I asked seriously, How many angels, or neutrinos for nonbelievers, can dance on the head of a pin? What kind of answer would I expect? Could calcul...

Or maybe propositions don't apply to life? This seems to remind me of Parmenides and the logically deductive One of the gods and the uncertainties of ...

I now offer experimental proof of nothing: After a few drinks nothing tastes good. QED

Jan Westerhoff's The Non-Existence of the Real World, recently published, emphasizes this point from both Buddhist (Madhyamaka) and Western perspectiv...

That's a good idea. Daily scrapes and cuts on my hands heal due to inherited self-correcting mechanisms that regenerate my skin automatically. Perhaps...

The question is about nothingness and not about nothing, a hole, a gap, not even space or vacuum. Those others are negative things of sorts with at le...

There is a hole in that argument but it's nothing to worry

Science progresses because it is based primarily (but not completely) on technological progress. Technology grows exponentially on top of all previous...

It is. But that's the fault of people who insist on using ill-defined fundamental concepts in a perverse manner to confuse themselves.

D.B-M said,

There are many branches of metaphysics not just the one. Perhaps some metaphysics as a philosophy of mathematical fundamentals done by mathematicians ...

When I take a stroll in the woods or browse through a market or watch people passing by, I observe, but what would make that science?

That was seen as a clear case of European colonialism plus the racial divide. That clarity is lacking in Israel. South African racism was easier to ru...

So is every other country. Anyone who says they're not racist (or otherwise bigoted) is ignorant, a hypocrite or both.

I thought the quote in the OP could be made more explicit for discussion. But if you like guessing that's OK too.

Empathy is psychologically subjective condition that we share with other advanced animals. It is itself rooted in ability to assess the mental state o...