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  • Self referencce paradoxes
    Ask yourself! :) — SolarWind

    "Self, why does refering to you always lead to contradictions?"

    Eeeeehhhh.... Because I'm a vat full of it? :smile:
  • What's the difference between western philosophies and non-western ones?
    Jim Morrison of the Doors suggested that the 'West is the best' — Jack Cummins

    I think he meant California.
  • What's the difference between western philosophies and non-western ones?
    ↪180 Proof


    "Terribly" clear? What does that mean?
  • What's the difference between western philosophies and non-western ones?
    Is western philosophy simply based on scientific knowledge?
    — VincePee
    No.
    — 180 Proof

    Do you refer to the science philosophies, the philosophies of life, the philosophical dreamcastles of the so-called great minds in philosophy (Hegel, Kant, Schoppenhauer, Kierkegaard, Kuhn, Lakatos, Feyerabend, Nietzsche, van Fraassen, Radder, Hacking, etc.), western monotheistic religeous philosophies, or what?
  • Adultery vs Drugs, Prostitution, Assisted Suicide and Child Pornography
    I'm not quarreling with you about experience of legalized prostitution in The Netherlands — 180 Proof

    Stuff is legal there too. You can buy it in coffeeshops. Heroin is given for free to the heavy addicts. With succes. Prostitutes pay tax. Semen tax.
  • Animal intelligence
    Believe it or not. Before dumping a heap she firstly put an old toilet seat on the dumping ground and then she delivered. And she still has to celebrate her first birthday (26 september).

    Computers having the intelligence of a 4-year old or an animal? Dogshit! All animals with brains have intelligence comparable with ours. But bound to their bodies, cinstrained and not so frew as ours.
  • What's the difference between western philosophies and non-western ones?
    What do you mean by the attitude of scientists — Ross

    I mean the attitude that their reality is the one and only. Other realities are considered as subjective myths while their (and mine) is a myth as well.
  • What's the difference between western philosophies and non-western ones?
    He is regarded as one of the most important philosophers of science in the 20th century and his ideas have changed the view of scientific theory. — Ross

    Not by me! I'm sorry to say... He's a failed scientist trying to make science conform to his pity view. But no hard feelings. Let him be...
  • Suicide is wrong, no matter the circumstances
    ↪I love Chom-choms


    Exactly! So you don't think killing yourself is killing God's creation? Well, of course it is (and in a sense He jills Himself), but should that be a reason not to do it? (Please note that Im not promoting suicide!)
  • Suicide is wrong, no matter the circumstances
    Honestly, I would call a painless death an ideal suicide. If you can die a painless death and be free from your suffering then it is the best. I don't know if it is right or not but it is definitely my ideal form of suicide. — I love Chom-choms

    Are you for or against a suicide pill?
  • Suicide is wrong, no matter the circumstances
    I do too. My answer to that is they they didn't really think about it. You know, like they didn't question their existence because of their faith in God and thus their duty is to God. If tells to procreate then we do so. — I love Chom-choms

    The gods creted all for us indeed (and for all life). Everything will be restored in the way they intended it all to be. I hope... :smile:
  • Münchhausens infinity as evidence for immortality - help needed
    And the idea of infinite worlds can be used to make sense of the observer effect, a quantum physics problem that still continues to baffle us all. — FalseIdentity

    What's so baffling about it? That it's non-classical? In the quantum field formulation it makes perfect sense. Though taking all paths at once and particles (gauge particles) being created or destroyed is indeed baffling.
  • What's the difference between western philosophies and non-western ones?
    You should study Karl Popper. — Ross

    Sir Popper lives in an imaginary world A normal scientist sees his theory as true. Not as a surreal stepping stone to a next surreal theory, by falsifying it.

    I mean the attitude of scientists. As if they address the one and inly reality.
  • Suicide is wrong, no matter the circumstances
    As long as they don't say that, in my mind, it is better to think that you owe them something rather that not. — I love Chom-choms

    Yes, I agree. I think I owe my parents too! I'm very happy with myself thoughsometimes I think how the hell they could have shot two children in the present kind of world, without much future hope. But then again, there always is hope!
  • Can we say that the sciences are a form of art?
    You cannot know how it feels to be me and I cannot know how it feels to be you, what you see, what emotions you experience; art is a way of conveying those feelings, an attempt to bridge the explanatory gap. — TheVeryIdea

    Why you cannot? It makes me feel isolated.
  • What's the difference between western philosophies and non-western ones?
    I think this is why people are often more drawn to eastern philosophy, it is grounded, practical, readily comprehensible and offers a more balanced/less dogmatic world view — TheVeryIdea

    You might be no scholar but that's exactly what makes your view clear. What has kept your vision clear! :smile:
  • Is it wrong to have children?
    Is it wrong to have children? Too many, yes.
  • Adultery vs Drugs, Prostitution, Assisted Suicide and Child Pornography
    ↪TheHedoMinimalist


    Adultary can be a kind of drug too. In Portugal, drugs can be obtained legally. All associated criminal activities faded away. A plus for drug addicts and citizens.

    Adultary should be restricted to adults only. Children should be watched over so they can't become prey of money-hungry criminals (I have no better name for them; the child-porn watchers can get help if they want).

    Prostitution should be made legal.

    Assisted suicide? Where I live, some time ago there was a diacussion about a suicide pill for elder people. Why not give it? To all, if wanted. Some people wanna die. If they want, why not?
  • What's the difference between western philosophies and non-western ones?
    Thanks for the reply. A "philosopher" that springs to my mind is Feyerabend. He is very critical on science insofar it makes claims of possessing an ultimate truth. In "Science in a Free Society" he argues it is one view amongst other realities.
  • When were clocks used for the first time in science?
    ↪Wayfarer


    Astonishing! I put a star under your comment! I heard about a hydra-something, but never of this one!
  • Suicide is wrong, no matter the circumstances
    To my parents, yes I do.
    At least, by my standards
    — I love Chom-choms

    What's your standard? That you owe your parents? Why? Because they gave life to you?
  • Does thinking take place in the human brain?
    ↪TheMadFool


    :rofl:
  • Is 'information' physical?
    Furthermore, a piano and a pianist will fall at the same rate if dropped from a height. That’s the sense in which ‘physical laws’ are applicable, in the context. — Wayfarer

    The living brain in a living pianist falls lndeed like a piano. The brain processes (if artificially separated from body and external world) proceed according to the laws of non-perturbative QFT. But that doesn't explain the fact that you see thoughts or hear sounds (hard problem of consciousness).
  • Does thinking take place in the human brain?
    You need some serious soul cleansing. — TheMadFool

    This is very offensive against motherfuckers! I might flag you!
  • The Decay of Science
    ↪Caldwell


    I think I get your point. Are in favor of science and afraid it will succomb to "dark pressure"?
  • The Decay of Science
    ↪Caldwell


    What do you mean by the darker reality than we are used to?
  • The Decay of Science
    The decay of science? Science never has been more advanced than in these days!
  • Is 'information' physical?
    The neural network is capaple of representing all physical structures in the universe. There are no memories. Instead a huge variety of patterns or forms or symbols can appear. As thoughts, as visions, as sounds, as words, or whatever. Animals are bound, the human animal is free. There are about 10exp(10exp40) possible signal pathways (a 1 followed by 10exp40 zeros!).
  • Does thinking take place in the human brain?
    Just like Dumbo is certain that the magic feather makes him fly, — TheMadFool

    What then does make Dumbo fly?
  • Does thinking take place in the human brain?
    ↪Bartricks


    But I am arguing that.
  • Is 'information' physical?
    ↪apokrisis


    Well, abstraction is nice. But sometimes it takes away too much. All organisms posses more or kess the same relative entropy (a number), but boy, how different they all are. I agree with your view on information! :smile:
  • Does thinking take place in the human brain?
    Did yours change yours? — Bartricks

    No. I changed mine.
  • Is 'information' physical?
    . I view brain information as embedded in brain state and you need to think of it as existing only in a physical present(time — Mark Nyquist

    What information? Your brain state contains the same amount of information as mine. But they are completely different states.
  • Does thinking take place in the human brain?
    Is there a name for an operation that adds material to your brain, thus enhancing one's ability to reason well? I will coin one: a topupobotomy. A topupobotomy would change your mind about this. — Bartricks

    I think you need one indeed
  • Does thinking take place in the human brain?
    Are you arguing that a lobotomy would not change your mind? — Pop

    :ok:
  • Does thinking take place in the human brain?
    Again, doing things to the brain - such as removing a bit - clearly affects what goes on in the mind. — Bartricks

    What bit?
  • Is 'information' physical?
    ↪apokrisis


    I mean, I understand your view on information (non-entropic, ie, not equal to S=k lnN) but it's too abstract.
  • Is 'information' physical?
    ungrammatical questions — apokrisis

    What's ungrammatical about asking if you can give an example of "formal constraints on material uncertainty" and who's Nature? DO YOU UNDERSTAND ENGLISH (it could be off course that you're American...)?
  • Is 'information' physical?
    But carry on with your efforts to champion nominalism. It must be at least 5 minutes since someone tried that. — apokrisis

    I don't understand. I just asked you if you could give me an example of "formal constraints" and you end up not knowing an answer to the simple question who Nature is.
  • Poll: (2020-) COVID-19 pandemic
    Vaccines are very effective against COVID — Xtrix

    For how long?
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