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  • Logic of Omnipotence and Suicide
    Well the question is what constitutes for "impossible" and what constitutes for "omnipotent"?

    Can an omnipotent being (if existed) be both dead and alive?
  • What is possible will eventually occur in the multiverse
    ↪180 Proof
    It's not quite the same.
    The coin is in a superposition of both before you collapse the wave function of the coin by taking a look at the coin.
    If no one measures (gives a look at the coin) then the coin is in both states.
    At least that's what a superposition means.
  • What is possible will eventually occur in the multiverse
    ↪180 Proof
    Can Schrodinger's cat be both dead and alive before I measure?

    Doesn't it constitute as a true contradiction?
  • What is possible will eventually occur in the multiverse
    ↪jgill
    Give it time, eventually an infinite number of monkeys will do that (i.e there exists N\in \mathbb{N} s.t for all n>N, n number of monkeys will succeed in the task). :-)
  • Who is to blame for climate change?
    Nature.
  • Why is there Something Instead of Nothing?
    ↪Banno
    You can answer my question for starters, does the pocket contain itself? does the universe contain itself?

    I think that indeed it does.
    U \subset U \subset U\subset \ldots ad infinitum, so nothing cannot really exist.
  • Why is there Something Instead of Nothing?
    ↪Banno
    Does the pocket contain itself? :-)
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2AC41dglnM
  • Why is there Something Instead of Nothing?
    ↪Ash Abadear
    There is always something... That's the magic of existence.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0p_1QSUsbsM
  • Marquis De Sade
    ↪TheMadFool
    :-) I guess this is why you are called:"TheMadFool"...
  • Marquis De Sade
    ↪TheMadFool
    There are no saints.
    people will rape and kill if they weren't afraid of what would happen after they have done those deeds.
  • Marquis De Sade
    ↪Book273
    How did Michael Jackson say it :"tell them it's human nature".
  • Marquis De Sade
    ↪TheMadFool
    Are we animals?
    I guess so.
  • A saying of David Hilbert
    ↪Pfhorrest
    You can make the claim that the complicated and complex is made of easy and simple to comprehend ideas which as a whole make the complex and complicated easy to comprehend.

    In that case it's like a point in geometry which is zero dimensional but the the whole line which is made of infinite number of these points is one dimensional...

    I feel like I have already discussed this before... :-) Dejavu.
  • A saying of David Hilbert
    ↪fishfry
    I am not sure that a university is not a bathhouse...
    Anyway the context is the excerpt of tim wood's first post.
    Obviously every x is different from y, but x has properties or qualities similar to y.
    :-)
    Anyway if something is too easy you lose interest in it, this is why life is so hard.
    This is the case also in mathematics, if a problem you pose is too easy people won't be interested of course there's the saying of Feynman:
    " According to the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman (Feynman 1997), mathematicians designate any theorem as "trivial" once a proof has been obtained--no matter how difficult the theorem was to prove in the first place. There are therefore exactly two types of true mathematical propositions: trivial ones, and those which have not yet been proven."

    https://mathworld.wolfram.com/Trivial.html
    So perhaps all of math is uninteresting and boring, though I would like to think that the fact that there are difficult proofs is to the contrary to Feynman's anecdotal quote.
  • Is pessimism or optimism the most useful starting point for thinking?
    ↪Pantagruel
    Well if you believe that "death comes to us all" you can't argue against the pessimist that argues that something bad is going to happen.
    If you believe in an afterlife or some sort of defying death all the time then you are bound to be an optimist.

    But it seems optimists do die, unless I am solipsistic and I am the only mind in existence; quite hard to believe in such an option.
    Cheers!
    A Realist
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