Jake Tarragon

I see Mike ... well I have to confess that my interest must wane then, because the issue for me is what is motion, rather than acceleration.....

That sounds good advice CasKev. I'm sure depression is a misery and my sympathies lie with anyone suffering from it. (Not sure I have so much sympathy...

A good reason to live is that change is excitng and change can only be witnessed, discovered, experienced or initiated by the living. One day the univ...

I am troubled that the field represents both velocity and acceleration ....

The problem is that kinetic energy, being based on speed, is relative, because speeds are relative. You can't escape having to think about what the fi...

hmmmm ... OK..... but do you really mean leaping into continuous acceleration or do you mean leaping to a steady velocity?

Suppose you type in "100 m/s " ..... 100 m/s relative to what though?

*wearing my smartass hat* Some posts are referring to "the good of the species." There is no such concept in biology....everything is driven at the ge...

I think the root issue of the OP is not about discrete vs continuous motion per se, rather it is motion itself - and I think MikeL has sort of acknowl...

I think that is a stupendously good piece of writing that highlights the differences between science and philosophy. However, I think the issue of thi...

The actual nature of motion is something that appears to have received very little attention in philosophy and science. We seem to take it for granted...

I think you are wondering what is it about motion that gives itself away other than the effects of motion....?

I think you ought to at least be able to demonstrate that you understand the argument that science proposes regarding the story of life before you can...

I think you are making a rather shallow rhetoric argument based on the word "happens" rather than a genuine discourse of engagement with ideas. I am n...

It doesn't "want" to. It just so happens that the behavior it engages in DOES so. Such complex things could not exist without a longish term survival ...

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I sometimes fantasize about winning a megalottery and how I would spend it on promoting and experimenting with "good causes". Does that qualify me?

The best form of government is World Government.

Well they can't exist at the same time, but the intention in meaning is some sort of crossover perhaps. Special relativity teaches us that the order o...

I claim that meaning can NOT be permanent!

Not sure what you mean by "evidence"....

Can meaning ever be permanent? Meaning requires context. Context requires change. Therefore meaning can never be permanent. Why does context require c...

You guys crack me up!

The guy above is pointing the wrong way!

Furthermore, I suggest that all neutral infinite regresses are homomorphs of "it is what it is".

Can I suggest that "it is what it is" is the seed of an infinite regress that is neither "vicious" or "benign" to use@"Mr Bee" 's terminology of the t...

Indeed. That list would form a very sound basis for a new humanist political party IMO 1. Freedom of choice of economic lifestyle on the work-consume ...

Bertie Russell says that if every person pursued enlightened self interest, the world would completely change for the better.

I have never seen a beautiful flower, only beautiful gardens.

The question of this topic has got me wondering about theists - surely they are in no different a position to non theists when it comes to "grounds fo...

Maybe. I think he wants to be seen as being loyal with the option (or ready intention) to dump later. I think he thinks if he can do something slowly ...

His initial reaction to the car murder was to say something on the lines of "I condemn violence on all sides" Weasel words gratefully received by the ...

His fan base, even if they are white supremacists. edited to remove question mark.

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"Wonder" is a better word for intellectual "beauty" perhaps, because it requires cognitive exploration to perceive it. However, intellectuals are more...

I struggle with that one too I must admit, though I think it might be possible. Some say the equation "e to the i pi + 1 = 0" is beautiful but I just ...

The science is a good starting point to embark on a philosophical journey, I suggest. A lot of old philosophical chestnuts can be cracked, if not yet ...

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I never said awe "only" prolongs life. There was a big article in New Scientist this week about awe. Apparently, chimps get goosebumps during thunders...

I think beauty is related to a sense of awe, and the latter serves to make us feel part of something bigger, which the science says makes us less stre...

Could we have the ability to privately annotate posters' profiles with a line or two of comment, so their perceived predispositions and characters can...

You might be right to distinguish forms of "happiness" but I feel you are jumping straight in and playing a word game in order to downplay one form of...

OK. But it was all so long ago and part of expired civilizations that those ancient monuments have a different feel to them. Also, Confederate statuar...

Indeed, but there was not a racial element to the ancients' slavery. I guess so. In terms of a spectrum of acceptability, perhaps Lee is towards the m...

No statue can or should remain in situ forever. Can we not all agree on that, as a starting premise?

They are personality traits actually. "They" say extroverts are happier than introverts, and that introverts often want to be more extrovert if only t...

Regarding Maslow, it is interesting to speculate on the path (or paths) to the pinnacle of "self actualization". Can just about anybody achieve it? Wo...

There are other ways to improve. In fact, it is the cultural aspect of humanity that has proved to be the driver of achievement.

One could argue, as does Pinker, that humans have improved over the ages. We don't burn witches today. In fact we don't believe in them. Mostly...

If we are a simulation then I suspect our knowledge of mathematics would be deliberately limited by our builders.....