Jake Tarragon

Then they are surely the same thing! Or at least they/it has a name?

I was reading recently about a guy that had been assaulted by some drunk strangers. The worst offender kicked the victim's head while he was down, wit...

I think Rhythm0 was mainly predictable, right down to "When the gallery announced the work was over, and Abramovi? began to move again, she said the a...

I think there are principles that could guide society as to "best practice" - perhaps based on what I posted earlier. The goal should always be to min...

Is that fair though?

I am certainly very much against the proposition that one has to be an expert, or even well informed, in order to make radical "outsider" propositions...

What do you mean by "blame" ... are you saying that the more one consciously chooses a certain antisocial course of action, the more "blameworthy" one...

How about everyone agreeing that "the soul (which is effectively "magical") is emergent from the organization of the brain and survives as long as the...

And now for those of you wish to have science dependent on rationality but not quite the same as being rational ,I can provide a neat answer "what mak...

I imagine one of the reasons for banning brief OPs is to put off trolls from lazily lighting the touchpaper and standing back? OK, so deletion makes s...

well human nature and all that....

I propose, regarding rationality per se 1) that there are situations where using the razor is rational. 2) that there are situations where using intui...

Perhaps deletion should be a last resort, with the OP first prodded to add more to the first post? Particularly if they are not fully aware of rules a...

Surely there's a "New Logic" somewhere that incorporates them? An extension of formal logic ...

"What is rationalism" is a very interesting question. I think it could be said of "rationalism", that it requires for its application, a goal and the ...

Only if "rationality" is not subject to Occam's Razor, I suggest.

Nevertheless, "being as rational as possible" is a fundamental property of being "scientific", (though not a blueprint)and a good definition if the wo...

In such cases I think that the schema I outlined above still broadly applies, with the proviso that education and rehabilitation fully takes into acco...

Very true, yes. On the nature of blame and "justice", I do feel that justice systems unfortunately do wield quite a big revenge stick, Judicial system...

My university education (maths degree) consisted of rather bad lectures with lots of copying from the board into an exercise book. Modules seemed deli...

I find it hard to imagine having a mind without any body or other sensory input. In particular not even concepts such as simple numbers would be obtai...

As far as I'm concerned any study or analysis which attempts to be as rational as possible is scientific.

Forgiveness, reconciliation, justice, revenge, anger, hatred, love. Which is the odd one out?

A man walks into a bar. Nothing happens.

You need a FAQs sort of blog to which you can simply point to as a reply. If you are "different" then you need to make an effort to help others unders...

We have the (possible) example of the Copenhagen interpretation, which demonstrates the principle.

The universe could , in principle, be a mixture of causal and non-causal. Proponents of the Copenhagen interpretation demonstrate quite a strong belie...

I have some faith in it, but not total faith. Because the very rationalism which leads me to espouse determinism, also recognizes that there is no pro...

Basically "everything is fractal" :)

My new metaphysics: Of course everything is deterministic. But we can never prove it because existence is an expression of the Great Self Creating Fra...

catenaries ... pwhooooaar? (very predictable, I know)

Atoms and their chemical properties are the medium through which a discrete digital embryological design is implemented. I don't think that smaller me...

If you look at the "design" of living things through embryology, the blueprints are rather digital. There are genes that effectively represent numbers...

The latter!

Perhaps nothing but cultural/patriotic pride... the same thing that the bigger nation state has to lose presumably. Nation states like to big themselv...

Nation states should be broken up, with smaller regions then belonging to some overarching international community. The US and the EU have elements of...

I applaud his active and multi faceted liberalism. The mags I never got though , and his lifestyle even less, because while I think porn has a well de...

I like Carl Rogers' take on this .. he says "all facts are friendly" , which I believe, was his way of saying that one's life is in one's own hands. A...

I have a little saying.. "mood is everything."

That depends what you mean by "universe"....

Yet only randomness can impart "flavor" somehow ... which is why the many worlds interpretation of quantum events is so attractive. Things can appear ...

Do you mean paragraph?

Cool! :)

Maybe he has "fish to fry". They would go well with those .. ahem ... chips on his shoulder! *only joking* :)

Science can be used to achieve goals -incl social and economic ones. The problem is in getting politicians to state their goals.

A fully "authentic" life may be near impossible for at least two reasons 1) Knowing what makes one "authentic" is difficult. 2) Implementing aspects o...

I know only a little about it and its rival - "many worlds". But actually I prefer the latter better because although it allows for true randomness in...

I accept that the actual post was too short, yes.

It's not that big a deal but I tend to think that a catchy title (as long as it is relevant and not misleading) is likely to pull in more interest.

I think Einstein was using "God" as a stand in for the laws of physics, and of course he was wanting a neat aphorism. Don't we all! God could play "tr...