f(x)=1/(e^x), where x is the total heat energy differential — god must be atheist
in the borderlands of philosophy and science — jgill
It is either true that "Every truth is subjective." or it is true that "Every truth is not subjective". One of those statements must be true and one must be false. Both cannot be true. — Harry Hindu
He says the question of whether there were other universes is "irrelevant". — Down The Rabbit Hole
Aren't you just pushing the question back, to where the "extra mundane power" came from? If your answer is that it has always existed, surely it would be simpler to just say the series of big bangs have always existed? — Down The Rabbit Hole
Oddly enough, I still think of Feyerabend as pro-science. — mcdoodle
Following Feyerabend's approach to method leads to Donald Trump. — Banno
First off, you really don't know if those beautiful butterflies are not behind the recent spate of extreme weather events. — Agent Smith
and secondly we live in far more complex societies, which presumably are more difficult to navigate. — Banno
Um. You realize domesticated cats are exponentially smaller than wild cats, right? That kinda goes along with the whole size thing. A blue whale's brain is 20 pounds yet all it can do for the creature is let it know when to make weird noises and not suffocate to death. — Outlander
In Darwinism, blind chance (evolution) beats blind chance (extinction level events are all rolls of dice) with blind chance (random genetic mutation). At some point the accumulated random mutation resulted in an intelligent ape (h. sapiens) who's the Thucydidean Pericles. — Agent Smith
Perhaps after the beers are flowing well, I will ask the company.
So guys 'What constitutes a Philosopher.' They may respond or they may throw their drinks at me. I will find out soon.
Cheers Fur Noo! — universeness
Oh sh** not that whole 'multiple personality stuff again....aaaaarrrggghhhhh'
Don't worry, normal service will resume soon. — universeness
Having to number every code line was fun eh? — universeness
No, an atheist does not believe god exists. It's not an ideal, it's an opinion. I am an atheist but I cannot prove there is no god, no-one can, but I am personally convinced as near to 100% as you can get. — universeness
I am not being idealistic, I am not aiming for perfection, I just refuse to be as duped as a theist. — universeness
I want the generations to come to be freed from religious lies. I am not too bothered about current believers. I want the next generation to be told what we KNOW or are SCIENTIFICALLY most convinced of. That is all we should teach about truth. Let them speculate further or allow their imagination to take whatever flight of fancy it may but teach them not to make policies or build civilisations based on speculation and flights of fancy. Build on what we know! — universeness
Hopefully NATO and Russia avoid a nuclear war. It would be nice to see this before we vanish... — Manuel
It’s a very hard saying, that, as we automatically interpret everything through the lens of gain and loss. — Wayfarer
You may not agree with this particular kind of metaphysical position, but the nature of metaphysics is that such that it stands as the ground and condition of possibility of scientific thought. — Joshs
Is it objectively true that every truth is subjective? — Harry Hindu
I'm happy it doesn't go the other way around! — jgill
mean as an explanation for where everything came from (such as Lawrence Krauss proposes) — Down The Rabbit Hole
The view you expressed of an infinite series of big bangs has no explanation for where it came from. In fact it never came from anywhere, it has always existed. — Down The Rabbit Hole
Yeah, another doh! moment for me, to add to my ever-growing collection. — universeness
Describe Now. — theRiddler
You don't think something more basic such as a quantum field is a better explanation? — Down The Rabbit Hole
..means more people, with ever less resources to share between them! — karl stone
Without the gravitational density of plasma, forcing atoms together, such that a fusion reaction increases the probability of further fusion reactions, in energy terms, they are always accelerating from zero with every singular instance of fusion. Thus, the energy input, to create and contain such high temperatures, will always exceed the energy output. — karl stone
No. I explained why this approach cannot secure a sustainable future. Poor people breed more. They have larger families. At the same time, less energy means it gets more expensive and harder to do everything. Society crumbles while population explodes, and that will not end well. Famine, mass migration, war. Why would prefer that to a prosperous sustainable future - based on limitless clean energy from magma — karl stone