It's a peculiarity of philosophy, I suspect, accustomed to appeal to the dustiest tome, to fail to recognise that science moves forward as a body of k...
Okay but you realise I suppose my argument suggests we come to this impasse as the consequence of a mistake - 400 years ago, in our relationship to sc...
I don't know what 'all the possibilities' refers to. I see a slim chance for a very particular, enormously beneficial possibility - that is, harnessin...
No! As I said earlier, we have to act in anticipation of the threat. Climate change will disrupt the economy - undermining our ability to address it. ...
I've just been looking at a list of genetic disorders, and I'm not as happy as I might be wasn't one of them. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ge...
This is interesting. I've considered this at length, and it's not that we go about things ass backwardly, but are backwardly oriented in our regard fo...
I'm very pro science, but what you're suggesting gives me the creeps - and plays right into accusations that science is arrogant and amoral. I can mak...
Is it arrogant to suggest we're smart enough to survive? I don't think so. It's well within our capabilities. We have knowledge of the threat, and the...
Johannes, Welcome to the forum. I haven't seen you around before - and now here you are, suddenly, and at such great length. I'm very pleased my ideas...
Other animals, inherent complexity, other people, the progress of civilisation, survivability, and imagined absolute intellect - I think, describe the...
Good question. I'm really struggling to answer it. I appreciate it's not the meat of your post, but I'm kind of hung up on it. That's a head scratcher...
Were there significant quantities of clean energy available, with which to desalinate water to irrigate land, while at the same time laws prohibit bur...
I think I did once or twice, but just didn't realise it at the time. They're very difficult to distinguish from the malicious people who'll look you i...
Precisely so! How could ubermensch have raised untamenches? You over-dramatize, surely. When has there not been apathy, tribalism and democratic blund...
Humanity contains genius. The distribution of talents is uneven, I accept that. I think I'm slightly above average, but I'm not a hugely social person...
Science does not disprove God. Religion carves its edicts in stone and then can't learn. St Augustine argued that no rational and divine truth could b...
So you're saying that you don't know if a sustainable future is possible, but probably not because people are stupid? I don't need to point out the ir...
Saddened to read your resigned perspectives. Does it imply that you don't believe a sustainable future is possible? Or is it that you don't believe it...
I think it's obvious mine is an attention grabbing title - that reflects to some degree, how I feel about my reception here, and apparent lack of wide...
That's really good to hear, thank you. Open mindedness is a valuable quality to bring to the search for truth, and that's what I try to do. That said,...
Blaming the climate and ecological crisis on the rational self interest inherent to capitalism is in my view a very shallow analysis. It's oppositiona...
Mary Shelley is an interesting example to take into consideration of your question; and the endless parade of similarly mad scientists, spawned from t...
I'm agnostic, and sceptical. I really don't know if God exists or not, but recognise the significance of the fact that all civilisations have been bui...
I accept that. I'm less certain of this: ...for the truth value of science as an understanding of reality does exist in an identifiable, intergenerati...
Make it yours and then you would be interesting too. At its core I don't think my position is all that complicated. In the fewest and simplest words p...
It's a matter of who I am, and it's the difference between masturbation and sex for procreation - as to whether I belong to a species with a future, o...
Initially, no doubt, it was deliberate ignorance maintained by threat and use of force. But how could that have been maintained for 400 years, worldwi...
So a higher average of happiness. Okay, but how close is genetic science to identifying the specific genes and/or areas of the brain they want alter? ...
In court, the defendant tells lies that are believed. Can there be justice? No. So, effective in what regard? Effective to justify political power on ...
I think it is feasible. Horrible, that everyone would go around grinning all day, but feasible to genetically engineer humans to be healthier, happier...
Well okay then, but my original comments were about Darwin's Doubt - a concept Georgios raised, but doesn't actually want to discuss. He just wants to...
In a capitalist economy, one might imagine, underpopulation would lead to increased wages, technological innovation, and so higher educational standar...
I'm learning so much from you. I had no idea that people fled the USSR because of underpopulation. Weird though, how they still had such long queues f...
Have you seen that experiment where the orgasm centre of a rat's brain was plugged into a lever the rat could press, and it pressed the lever repeated...
Climate change was first brought to the President's attention in the 1950's. Eisenhower was the first President briefed on climate change. Scientists ...
I think knowledge starts at the fingertips - not at the far end of the universe, so I'm working toward a valid ontology. I have no idea what may or ma...
Darwin should have taken a physics class or two; and perhaps he'd have paid more attention to the causal nature of the environment, that requires the ...
I'm in the UK, so reluctant as I am to weigh into the midst of your politics, I have to say, the left worries me more than the right. Biden's about to...
I don't know what you mean by saying "that's a logician's assumption." Thanks, I guess! I don't think you get my meaning either. From the structure of...
I agree there's a prevalence of false representations, but would add that there's a relationship between the validity of the knowledge bases of action...
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