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Most of Stoics view aesthetics in virtue and happiness as per the whole eudaimonia pursuit.
August 30, 2024 at 06:10
Yes, then there's nothing much to further discuss. I did some work on Godel coding for compression algorithms with countable denumerable alphabets, su...
August 27, 2024 at 04:40
I wouldn't be surprised if you were able to (in a manner unknown to me at the moment) topologically map out the possible logical spaces for informatio...
August 27, 2024 at 01:51
Yeah, something on the bucket-list to-do(?) :cool:
August 25, 2024 at 02:47
Look at this pig: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Pig_farm_Vampula_1.jpg/1280px-Pig_farm_Vampula_1.jpg
August 25, 2024 at 01:57
Same to you? My take? Yes, although I don't ask the question as much as others to be frank. To this day I don't understand the obsession with this who...
August 25, 2024 at 01:44
The title of the thread is actually a slogan from the Soviet Union. I suppose a union is a union as long as some fabric or unifying feature stands for...
August 24, 2024 at 06:28
Yes, however attaining Nirvana is premised on the extinguishing of desire, which is manifested in the pursuance of the reduction of duhkha. So, if hap...
August 24, 2024 at 06:24
Thanks for the response. I conclude the topic about communism, collectivism and the good, and even the guise of happiness on a mass scale. I don't hav...
August 24, 2024 at 06:02
Pig?
August 24, 2024 at 01:44
Yes, you seem to be on point with this finishing thought. Aristotle really set in motion the telos of human aspirations, which is quite a sad state of...
August 23, 2024 at 21:18
Just picking up on this. Again, I take this as a sign of the honesty and sincerity of communists to promote the welfare of the individual amongst so m...
August 19, 2024 at 21:47
Yet, the reality of the situation is that the good Samaritan suffers because of the atomization of society, and hence hell is other people, the game b...
August 19, 2024 at 21:37
I think you got it figured out. My own concern is with pursuing a goal with a shoddy methodology or what can be called a 'socio-economic' system. My h...
August 19, 2024 at 02:38
Yes, and that was how happiness was rendered only by the party for the party.
August 13, 2024 at 15:59
Sure, but, my point is that the Soviet Union wasn't only about the mistakes and atrocities conducted by Stalin. Just my two cents.
August 13, 2024 at 15:42
Seems like bashing on Stalin really dismantles whatever the Soviet Union was or became after him. Go figure.
August 13, 2024 at 14:56
It's interesting to analyze how Marx' epithet about "From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs," got totally redone in terms ...
August 13, 2024 at 11:08
What I'm hinting at is the facet of Soviet communism seemingly adopting a totalitarian stance towards happiness. Does that make sense?
August 13, 2024 at 02:29
I doubt it. I think the gist here is associated with the simple fact that Soviet communists were really sincere about their intentions of improving th...
August 13, 2024 at 02:16
Yes, the other communists I had in mind were the positivists or scientists who were told by political leaders, and the party, to create a better socie...
August 13, 2024 at 02:09
It doesn't seem to be a question that can be answered. Personal identity is, as you say, formed through a period of time; but, has no discernable begi...
August 12, 2024 at 21:15
I thought about starting a thread about how fractured and weak the Republican party is but I'll ask it here. What are your thoughts about the current ...
August 11, 2024 at 03:49
Just for comparison here is a Hampshire pig: https://i.imgur.com/PsJxKI6.png
August 11, 2024 at 02:17
Google might be correct on this one. I never knew a Bazna pig was so close to Hampshire breeds. https://i.imgur.com/BpqiSdz.jpeg
August 11, 2024 at 02:16
https://i.imgur.com/RvuzsL0.png
August 11, 2024 at 02:03
Yes, even the pigs are protesting... See: https://www.porci-bazna.ro/en/sites/default/files/imagecache/imagine-atasata-550/wysiwyg_imageupload/1/porci...
August 10, 2024 at 01:00
Wake 'n bake
August 09, 2024 at 23:53
Bazna pig. https://www.livestockoftheworld.com/uploads/207676BaznaPig.jpg
August 09, 2024 at 23:52
Yeah; but, why give the sound-byte? Concepts like these really ruin reputations if not elections...
August 07, 2024 at 21:54
Someone needs to tell Kamala not to promote equal outcomes with equal opportunity. Don't give the political right the slur word they love labeling on ...
August 07, 2024 at 20:59
I thought Albert Hoffman was mentioned. Interesting chap.
August 06, 2024 at 21:54
I'm having a hard time discerning the observer effect in QM with the MWI. Specifically, I can give an example. If one were to play the lottery in a wo...
August 06, 2024 at 21:31
There are other ways of looking at reality other than the classical Newtonian thermodynamic paradigm. I'm still surprised it has lasted for so long un...
August 06, 2024 at 06:06
Yes, I believe Leibnitz was actually more in correspondence with how the world works according to possibilities and his monadology than Newton. Leibni...
August 06, 2024 at 06:04
Modal logic is supposedly grounded by processism. I think that's the best answer I can give.
July 31, 2024 at 10:40
The concept is so vaguely understandable only based on the way we perceive change itself. I don't really have an answer as to these deep "why" questio...
July 31, 2024 at 10:35
Sorry, I don't open links on the forum. Too much of this and whatnot. But I think your right. It seems accurate to say in certain narratives of what w...
July 31, 2024 at 10:22
I'd like to address this again given that my previous response was just conjecture. What I want to point out is the ability for a system to change. Th...
July 31, 2024 at 10:19
I'd like to point out that I view the very notion of having possibility within a system can only mean in terms of modal logic the necessity of determi...
July 31, 2024 at 09:50
By the way, this thread is the longest thread with 742 pages. Keep in mind that I'm not talking about a phallus.
July 31, 2024 at 09:31
So much emotion.
July 31, 2024 at 09:28
Trump is someone I really admire. Only recently I began viewing him in the manner in which he doesn't bend over to the establishment or any secret soc...
July 31, 2024 at 05:35
Logic is mechanistic about relations, so I don't see the need to type-token issues. I also don't think logic has properties ascribed to these relation...
July 31, 2024 at 05:32
Do you think, as possibly quite interesting ponderance, that if physics can be modeled in a direct correspondence between logic (a computer) and the w...
July 31, 2024 at 03:32
It would be perplexing if the two didn't go together, right?
July 31, 2024 at 03:16
Sure, take it from this point of view. How could truth be possible without a formally consistent and complete system to render it as such?
July 31, 2024 at 01:02
Furthermore, regarding my previous post, it seems possible that there could be some things one can have in causality (think synchronicity or Bell's in...
July 31, 2024 at 00:25
Personally I look at most of what has been said in this thread in terms of computability. I'm not a simulation theorist and don't believe in it given ...
July 31, 2024 at 00:22
Don't tell that to the dogmatic or fundamentalist about their notions of reality.
July 31, 2024 at 00:12