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Proximate1

['Member']Joined: February 20, 2021 at 15:58Last active: August 20, 2021 at 11:443 discussions25 comments

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In: God Does Not Play Dice!  — view comment
ahhh, defining God. The sandbox of wistful minds.
August 20, 2021 at 11:57
In: Conceiving Of Death.  — view comment
If being alive is being consciously aware, then we are 'dead' every night, being miraculously reborn upon awakening. We've got the moment and no more....
August 20, 2021 at 11:55
In: Could energy be “god” ?  — view comment
Making an object into 'God' might be squirming through the wrong rabbit hole. You run afoul of the paradigm of what is- an then inevitably- what is no...
August 20, 2021 at 11:51
In: What can replace God??  — view comment
God doesn't need replacing... but maybe the concept of God does. People have an annoying way of defining God and then politicizing that idea. Equating...
August 20, 2021 at 11:39
In: Inherently good at birth?  — view comment
Insofar as we think in terms of language it is language meaning that determines how we interpret the 'world' in our minds. Even animals have a languag...
May 04, 2021 at 00:41
In: Inherently good at birth?  — view comment
So they are developmental traits. It is totally possible to derail what could be through neglect or abuse in those formative weeks- maybe this is an o...
May 02, 2021 at 20:00
In: Inherently good at birth?  — view comment
Ah, yes the deeper insight thing. Language can lead to many (mis)interpretations. Unless we know the rules of the game and agree to the field of play ...
May 02, 2021 at 19:58
In: Inherently good at birth?  — view comment
There may be hard wired inclinations for sure- but the eating me part is my interpretation of 'good', the lion is just being a lion.
May 02, 2021 at 19:52
In: Inherently good at birth?  — view comment
Isn't the concept of 'good' a judgement inherent to the observer? The starving cat finds its encounter with the mouse to be 'good', the mouse has reas...
May 02, 2021 at 15:55
In: Can it be that some physicists believe in the actual infinite?  — view comment
Semantics- the foundation on which we stand, The term infinite has various meanings. The original old French term means simply 'not finite' or in simp...
May 02, 2021 at 14:47
In: How small can you go?  — view comment
point taken!
March 21, 2021 at 23:20
In: How small can you go?  — view comment
I think the reason the concept of smallness intrigues me is because some scientists talk of 'point particles' which are essentially one dimensional ob...
March 21, 2021 at 19:43
In: How small can you go?  — view comment
"However, the Greeks would've been in error only if the atoms they were talking about are the particles science defines as atoms. The possibility rema...
March 07, 2021 at 01:07
In: How small can you go?  — view comment
'So far, whenever we get to the absolute end of the line on something, it has turned out that there's still more to find.' You must be an astrophysici...
March 07, 2021 at 00:47
In: How small can you go?  — view comment
'Planck units – fundamental relationships – seem to correspond more to what ancient Greeks (& Indian C?rv?ka) had in mind than to what early modern ch...
March 07, 2021 at 00:38
In: How small can you go?  — view comment
Ha, I brush my teeth with quantum foam. "In physics, the Planck length, denoted ?P, is a unit of length. It is equal to 1.616255×10?35 m... The Planck...
March 07, 2021 at 00:24
In: How small can you go?  — view comment
I think that you have written a really a clear response. The limitations of our ability to understand is more the barrier than what may be the actuali...
March 07, 2021 at 00:17
In: Philosophy has failed to create a better world  — view comment
I'm interested in how you interpret the transfer of wealth consideration and what are the mechanisms that will cause this to happen. Please start a to...
March 05, 2021 at 19:50
In: Philosophy has failed to create a better world  — view comment
Ultimately philosophy is a personal orientation regarding our place in the universe. Since everyone is free to believe as they will it is unlikely tha...
March 05, 2021 at 13:45
In: Is the underlying basis of reality infinite?  — view comment
Reason is limited- to the three pounds of grey matter we have between our ears. Our thought s are produced by our brain, which is the mechanism of our...
March 01, 2021 at 12:33
In: Is the underlying basis of reality infinite?  — view comment
We demonstrate this by definition of finite itself. Generally the clue is when you have something that 'is this' and 'is not that', the duality inhere...
March 01, 2021 at 11:36
In: Is the underlying basis of reality infinite?  — view comment
It would be unknowable. I suppose at this juncture we can only muse whether something does exist beyond our ability to reason or not. Does it matter? ...
March 01, 2021 at 11:30
In: Nietzsche's Idea of Eternal Recurrence : a Way of Understanding Our Lives?  — view comment
You are correct- we have moved away from the idea of eternal recurrence as expressed by Nietzsche. I just liked the idea as a lead in to understanding...
February 20, 2021 at 22:01
In: Nietzsche's Idea of Eternal Recurrence : a Way of Understanding Our Lives?  — view comment
Ha. There is definitely room for all possibility in an 'infinite' universe. So your musing must be correct! . You specifically say- 'nothing is chance...
February 20, 2021 at 19:41
In: Nietzsche's Idea of Eternal Recurrence : a Way of Understanding Our Lives?  — view comment
Suddenly the thread comes to life. We make assumptions in that there is this phenomenon called 'time' which proceeds from the past into the future. Se...
February 20, 2021 at 16:20
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