The comments competed for attention, like Daniel Dennett's memes, and one now reads: 'whether it is wise to explore what is given or to start anew'. W...
Ok. Given the simplicity of example I think I understand why. Between two people set to find solutions to diverse sets of problems, the one who acquir...
So if a computer takes 10,000 years to finish its procedure rather than 1 second, all else being equal, they're still equally intelligent? Imagine how...
Why would you assume that you know how your lucky shirt works? Maybe your lucky shirt just increases the probability you will win by 1%. Could you sci...
This thought has occurred to me many times in relation to my failures as a thinker and or communicator as indicated by the phenomena of reciprocity in...
Deciding to do any act for whatever cited reason is magical. This thread will be the cause of me planting a Calotropis in the lower garden, so I can a...
The problem is that I can at any moment be seized by the absurdity of life. Imagine a being sitting at a computer (?) somewhat incapacitated by the il...
Also if ideas are ever believed to be the origin of a cause and effect, like the idea of the Butter Fly Effect, then maybe they also lead to big (or n...
A more relevant analogue of the Butter Fly Effect is to be found in how organisms evolve by natural selection. A small event (gene mutation) that code...
Why isn't this just an extension of what everyone is doing in this forum, full of selective pressures on the "proper" way of doing things. Obviously t...
Depends on how and why you do it. There might be a point somewhere in the room while your doing it but it's a matter of perspective. It could be the p...
Non-reversing mirrors do reverse the image as if you were turning around to meet your duplicate. Reversing mirrors don't reverse the image. Already ge...
But then in your duplicate's world the semantics of the word "right" might be reversed. He'd simply be using a foreign dialect of English, which is tr...
The reflection of the image of the self, The echo of the sound of the self, All occurring in the absence of an embodied community. More so, when a bod...
Now we need a memetic complement to that last Dawkins quote. "They came into being with language. Look for them floating loose in a sea of data ; they...
I'm not sure what these principles are in your view. Everyone talks about this stuff as if the details are obvious. Maybe this is evidence of epistemi...
Intuition may as well be a kind of informal or non-explicit logic. Dan Dennett says it's a process of attaining an answer without knowing how you got ...
To calm your Cartesian anxiety: "The answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe and everything is 42." ~Douglas Adams "On page 42 of Bram S...
Superstition as a definition requires belief in supernatural phenomena but sorting out what kind of false beliefs fit into that box might not be so ea...
She has no intentions if she has passed. You have a memory of her character by which you presume you could predict her behavior were she alive. Also s...
If you jettison the third person point of view then you jettison the need of ethics altogether so there is not point in asking whether or not it's eth...
It depends on the circumstances of a specific act and normative attitudes and customs govering our behavior. Say you're boning a piece of fruit and fo...
The most relevant interpretation of a "leap of faith" in my own case of overcoming the absence of meaning life is to take the risks I'm currently unwi...
If a legal document called a will is said to represent the intent of the deceased then such a person's intent does carry beyond death but only regardi...
Well, you might want to do some research about the rights of dead people. Slate: Habeas Corpses: What are the rights of dead people? Whether or not we...
The death of a loved can be tough. The normative treatments we have surrounding the disposal of the deceased is there to mollify or mitigate harm. Tho...
No, but my fears and insecurities probably generate fictions and lock onto stereotypes which try to give the world a bit of order. I'm not very much c...
There seems to be recent narrative that couples Christian fundamentalism with a wild west flavored libertarianism. I tend to view certain types of God...
It might be more beneficial to you if you could believe in personal autonomy and responsibility over the choices you make in life such that you can re...
Well I'm just regurgitating Dennett memes. I'd have to read his chapter on it over and over again with patience and a widening context of knowledge to...
Memetics relies on the idea that Darwinian evolution is likely to be substrate-neutral, that such that process can occur in very different environment...
How does John Gray think the the cultural transmission of science differs from ethics or politics? Isn't the domain of science just as full of perform...
Escher's Dewdrop (mezzotint) Thanks for encouraging me to explore my avatar. Escher and the Art of Mezzotint Nobody will ever know the species of succ...
There is a fast track method for enlightenment though. They say drink deep from the Ganges river and you will attain instant enlightenment, no hard wo...
Memetics probably appeals more to those who believe in biological or metaphysical determinism. It is the effect of wanting to apply the mechanics of e...
This ad does nothing but foment resentment on both sides of the political spectrum. It probably makes folks on the far left want to buy a gun, while i...
Words like "cuck" and "pussy" may cause buildings to burn down (see Because a Little Bug Went Kachoo). These are determined effects though which might...
It seems absurd to say memes don't have a physical basis since meme is just another word for idea. You can't have a meme without a vehicle of transmis...
From a bit of reading I've the impression that a lot of the harmful isotopes released by accidents like Fukushima and Chernobyl shorter lived than we'...
In all cases I'd think about overcoming my limitations and fears to achieve a kind of life worth living. The first step might be to dispense with a fi...
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