Maybe it's about the existential functions of good art, given that Nietzsche was complaining about the decline of Greek tragedy with the rise of the S...
I agree with BC's assessment. But also, meaning must predate language and culture, even if it just comes down to a rudimentary quality of experience a...
Witcher 3 for the gorgeous medieval landscape and soap opera. Tested free trial of StarCraft II but looks like you have to pay for each of the race ca...
If we dumped out a collection of stuff onto a table, you'd be able to meaningfully sort through it on the basis of what might be useful to you at a pr...
"It will never be known what acts of cowardice have been committed for fear of not looking sufficiently progressive." This highlights the well known p...
My bed and my sleep have been monetized by titanic productivity. The earth is actually a horde of Dragon's gold and you have to rent a space (a coin) ...
Mostly women attend the meditation and prayer service at the building I upkeep. There were a lot more women than men in the Holy Hell cult, if I recal...
This almost reads as a rationalization for murder. The impulse to suicide stems from real suffering. It is a stop gap measure which could just as well...
I would say this could be emphasized more as a grounding context for understanding this topic, that ultimately the act of redeeming the world takes pl...
“If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary wise, ...
I think we can use the term to apply to designer babies in a Capitalist setting, even though as you say it is speculative sci-fi at the moment. The te...
But you would want to avoid severe genetic defects that might upend your family's future well being, right? So you don't really mean what you just sai...
Is this a recommendation to "be here now"? It isn't easy for those to reign in their irrational fears by which their perceptions are organized. A lot ...
The third tablet must have been the cipher to the other two, or contained missing predicates and or exceptions to the first 10 rules. Thou shall not k...
We're not just talking about non-obvious genetic flaws with regard to eugenics, we're talking about the possibilities of shaping human features in a c...
We already practice eugenics with regard to sexual preference and mate selection. The reason we desire some traits in our sexual partner has something...
Was a self-employed landscape maintenance guy who luckily fell into a job with a salary, rent and utilities covered by employer. My income is the effe...
So now that you've given up your legal rights as a human being we are sending you to Foxconn, were you will work building Iphones until you collapse. ...
My only complaint is that you've not credited the source of your quote. It really does feel good to scold you softly here. The suspicion is that the T...
I suspect that random mutation does not account for the speed of phenotypic changes in the given examples of selective breeding of plants and animals ...
Even determined (or selected) events (ie. you deciding to brush your teeth this morning) are chance events in the sense that they are contingent (subj...
You're discounting the vast numbers of individuals that are discarded in the process of selecting for an individual with desirable traits, over many g...
I'm just offering up an unexplored, free floating, hazy intuition. A state of total knowing seems contradictory, since there is too much information, ...
Ignorance informs or contextualizes knowing (or what can be known) in some way. For instance if I know how the events of my life will unfold perfectly...
Zen conjures a setting of Japanese austerity, essentially a kind of brutal boot camp for the initiate. Drill instructors always are characterized as a...
Borges poetic illustration of this thought experiment is endlessly fascinating and enigmatic. The library has all possible configurations of letters w...
Boltzmann brains are analogous to the intelligible books in Borges finite library. Why do we talk about brains when simpler objects would be just as n...
Depending upon which unit we use to measure the coastline of England, the kilometer, meter, the centimeter, the femtometer with respect for accuracy a...
This recalls the grand drama of GOT with its horrendous acts like the Red Wedding and the Sept of Balor. House of Cards is also another, where a bruta...
Sounds like you've read J.L. Borges the Library in Babel His library is finite but the number of books (all possible combinations of letters) would ex...
Wosret is suffering from time bias. I wish I could live for the future (investing more for retirement) or in a better future (where I own a self-flyin...
Mr. Mayor was at the front of a hopeful coup that would undermine the the monetary investment in the PF. I wonder what kind of historical parallels th...
This is same as the copycat suicide effect. The question is how do we limit such news events without interfering with freedom of the press. I don't th...
I think the errors (variants) of thought ( via cultural evolution) can be some way compared with the errors (variants) required for natural selection....
They bought the PF for $ 20k!!! I doubt they've recouped their investment since the transaction and the slow upkeep doesn't bode well for site activit...
You're including any type of evolution (change) that doesn't harm the organism in this statement, which is to say that some heritable changes are neut...
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