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12^2 (144) is evenly divisible by 9, whereas 12 is not evenly divisible by 9. So 12 doesn't split evenly the way its higher orders do. Is there any pa...

I suggest questioning the idea of "it’s premise of even 1/2’s and 1/4’s at higher orders". Why think there is really anything to "defy"?

It's a simple matter of 4 being a factor of 12 but not of 10. Consider: 10 = 2 * 5 100 = 10 * 10 = (2 * 5) * (2 * 5) = (2 * 2) * (5 * 5) = 4 * 25

Perfectly standard? I'd think it is an unusual situation, for a scientist to have to make such judgement calls with millions of lives at stake. It's n...

Agree 100%, that research results paid for by tax dollars should in general be more freely available. However, I'm afraid the fraction of the electora...

Do you think that being employed by an institution is somehow contradictory to being a man who seeks truth? I suppose that would be at least as proble...

It's not clear to me that this is a good thing. As water heats up its capacity to absorb CO2 decreases. So given that the temperature of the oceans is...

Don't you think it makes sense to distinguish between sensory experience that involves the operation of sensory organs that provide us with informatio...

What does sensory experience have to do with NDEs? Do you think that people 'seeing' things when their brain is in a very abnormal state is a matter o...

Is a strong interest in keeping a scumbag out of power, the same as an interest in maintaining power?

It seems to me that to some degree "intuition" is a word we use for speaking about thinking without consciousness. And if you don't mind multiple word...

Interesting. I had never looked into the Rankine scale before.

Can you choose Kelvin instead of Fahrenheit?

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That's not a real problem. People who know me don't have any trouble making the distinction.

I'm skeptical of the idea that Daniel Dennett believes anything these days, but anyway, that appears to be gratuitious slander. From Wikipedia:

I don't have much use for the notion of a moral authority. I am (quite possibly naively) hopeful that humanity developing better understanding of huma...

An understanding that we have an evolved social primate nature rather than a mythological fallen nature. Though perhaps it's not a widespread understa...

Thanks for the response. This is a pretty good illustration of my point about myopic philosophizing without being scientifically informed. I'll bow ou...

I'd think it more accurate to say that we think as it is our nature to think. I'd add that that nature, is to a substantial degree, determined by the ...

Given that we are granting evolution occurred, (I presume you mean biological evolution) I'm not seeing much reason to privelege philosophical conside...

I was hasty and misread your "assuming Non-determinism is true" as "assuming determinism is true". In any case, from my perspective you still seem to ...

Neither. It is better to become informed about relevant science than to settle for adherence to a simplistic philosophical position.

And he is looking directly at me! :scream:

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Per Wikipedia: (I only knew about this because I once ran lights for a local civic theater run of the biographical musical Red Hot and Cole.)

I suppose a related question is, "Why do we humans find a deity coming through flames apposite?" Perhaps a huge amount of human history involved with ...

Not sure where you find someone who is unconstrained by ignorance.

You'd have to go awfully far back in time, to find an ancestor of ours that wasn't a member of such a species.

There is the issue of what springs from an evolved nature though. In our case, what we find to be good is substantially a matter of our ancestors havi...

I'm skeptical. I don't think you would go all that long without deliberating about eating or drinking.

Ok, do you think that you are able to maintain a free willed choice to stop deliberating for the rest of your life?

Do you think that you are able to make a free willed choice to stop deliberating?

I doubt that this is a common view among those who accept determinism. Results of the 2020 Phipapers survey were: Free will: compatibilism, libertaria...

I don't know what you mean by "displacement of true nature". However, I think you are right in the sense that notions of karma are intimately tied up ...

Nice succinct overview of important to understand matters. Bookmarked.

As a resident of MAGA world, I certainly hope so.

So glad to hear it was helpful!

Consider people who get involved in cults?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=L4ttVP2cyK4

And? Is this meant to be an argument from authority? Nietzche having made predictions about the future based on his limited perspective isn't somethin...

Sounds like fantasizing on your part, to me. Do you see yourself as someone likely to commit suicide if you came to have an atheist perspective? If so...

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Sounds as if you are arguing for an intellectually impoverished populace, and I wonder why?

Looking into what groups can be found through meetup.com might be worthwhile.

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"Meant to" by whom? It looks to me like evolution resulted in us having emotions which act as 'interrupts' to our rational consideration, and which te...

Well, if one accepts that human memories are encoded in the synaptic weightings of neural networks, then it doesn't make much sense to think that we h...