I'm wanna be antiphilosopher in a philosophy forum and I'm not educated enough to call myself anything but a doubting kindergartner. Let's go fly a ki...
Here's hoping for sentient blob networks and eusocial insect civilizations. No more dirty apes! Life probably would look a lot similar on the same kin...
The banter is almost koan like. One is left scratching there head as to why a flat out refutation of the self makes sense as if it ought to have been ...
Energy flows freely as the universe moves from low to high entropy. Life needs the flow to maintain its local order but in doing so it negligibly incr...
But suppose there was somekind of civil unrest in your city and this produced a certain amount of worry about your person or property. Does any projec...
If there is ultimately only one thing that exists, the whole thing, which is reduced or divided into aspects, parts, functions, multitudes, then it is...
I don't think "insanity" is a psychiatric diagnosis. If the patient knows they have a psychiatric condition where states of control and self-awareness...
It's really ok, they are all versions of modbot. They can't be held accountable and their creators are inaccessible, just like Terminix customer servi...
It would depend entirely on the incentives/disincentives of being plugged in. What are they currently with respect to VR? Has work been moved into a V...
It seems that a substantial amount (>50%) of heat lost by human beings in a cool temperature is due to thermal radiation (mostly infared light?). I gu...
Are you gonna get meta about your physics question? Interesting question. It seems the temperature of deep space is actually related to the heat trans...
Well, imagine a situation where the state represents the will of God and delivers punishment for those who transgress divine law. Eternal damnation mi...
Radio Lab: Poop Train Somewhat amusing podcast about biosolids from New York City sewage plants being transported to Colorado for use in agriculture f...
Be glad you were born into a somewhat stable(?...) wealthy country where your grievances are minor. You're not typing from an arid internet cafe in Ma...
If we give a wild ape some cake with the certain knowledge that it has never tasted anything like it (cake), do we conclude that the ape potentially h...
Unless of course you are seeing what you desire and there is no need to imagine it. There must be some animals that still desire despite a complete la...
Check out the adaptive dissipation theory by Jeremy England and others. Very basically I think it is that matter can organize itself to dissipate heat...
Clothes are more practical in Northern latitudes for races who lack pigment and to keep warm. Humanoid species lost their hair for some reason and thi...
What do you mean you don't know what it is? You tell me Professor Sushi. What you see is what you get, a fragment. I won't participate anymore sense I...
Dennett is definitely a zombie created by the blind process of natural selection. His consciousness is an illusion, born of competing neural circuitry...
Maybe claims for and against Trump based on what he has or hasn't done should be backed up with linked citations, not that anyone would believe any of...
Copper sulfate pentahydrate (26% solution) was applied to a 40,000+ gallon concrete pond complex at between 5-7 gallons per surface acre of 4 foot dep...
Learned helplessness is one theory for developing depression. A person is continually stuck in a stressful situation where no natural action can ameli...
It is likely a mistake to project the unique human capacity for suffering onto animals. We have a rather sophisticated sense of self having a past and...
Hell has exits, one hopes. The Buddha on your shoulder might whisper something about "mindfulness" and the imaginary friend on the other might say som...
In the end any appeal to rights requires whether they are recognized by whoever/whatever is obstructing them. Do crocodiles have a justice system? If ...
Vignettes of Ortolan eaters across time from Roman era to today. One involves an a medival ship import and something happens... Someone steals invento...
When I get my act together and become an accomplished illustrator from 10,000 hours of practice, I'll be presenting: Oriental Landscapes using tea as ...
Eh, you're not being very charitable. Why wouldn't basic knowledge about how to survive constitute learned knowledge, culture (memes)? Subtract any cu...
Whatever continues into the future is still dependent upon the actual continuity of genes. The memes need the genes as much as the genes need the meme...
There is only what it is like to be something. A world that isn't aware of itself at all is equal to a world that doesn't exist. So long as there is a...
You must do much more of these. Maybe a silhouette of a retriever with toilet roll. Man shooting other folks for toilet roll, while retriever brings i...
@"Wheatley" You could always start acting like your "friend" to see what he thinks of his own behavior. Persistently ask for money. @"Sir2u" You can t...
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