scientists who are funded by "Big Climate"? — Agree-to-Disagree

You may search
At any cost
But how long
Can you search for what’s not lost?
Everybody will help you
Some people are very kind
But if I can save you any time
Come on, give it to me
I’ll keep it with mine — Bob Dylan

Here the opposite happens. — javi2541997

What's fun here is how few folk on a philosophy forum understand what a fallacy is. — Banno

It is literally the contrary. When people have more access to voting, the number of votes turns right because the citizens tend to be more conservative than leftists statistically. — javi2541997

It is clear that the Public is easily manipulated by its media. — yebiga

Sick, insane people. — Mikie

Come gather 'round people
Wherever you roam
And admit that the waters
Around you have grown
And accept it that soon
You'll be drenched to the bone
If your time to you is worth savin'
Then you better start swimmin'
Or you'll sink like a stone
For the times they are a-changin'. — Bob Dylan

What part (if any) does the notion of legacy via reproduction or via human memorialisation of a life now past, or perhaps both, play, in your notion of living a meaningful life? — universeness

I would suggest that his formula is "@niki wonoto means nothing", and that the form of meaning is X means Y. — hypericin

Russia and Greenland will open up as well. North Dakota will be nice. — frank

Wow, if someone implemented something like that we could have computers and an internet! — wonderer1

There are probably people in some locations who will get more plusses than minuses. Can we expect these people to help to solve global-warming/climate-change? — Agree-to-Disagree

I'm having trouble, on page 81, of understanding the third step where J2 is called. — Moliere

In effect, when a, b both indicate the unmarked state, it remembers which of
them last indicated the marked state. If a, then f= m. If b, then f=n. — p61.

The Industrial Revolution started in Britain — Mikie

I have not come across a version of essence that is of much use, but I’m happy to gives consideration to any that’s proffered. I’m hoping for something a bit more useful than “what makes a thing what it is“ — Banno

Let us then consider, for a moment, the world as described by the physicist. It consists of a number of fundamental particles which, if shot through their own space, appear as waves, and are thus (as in Chapter 11), of the same laminated structure as pearls or onions, and other wave forms called electromagnetic which it is convenient, by Occam's razor, to consider as travelling through space with a standard velocity. All these appear bound by certain natural laws which indicate the form of their relationship.
Now the physicist himself, who describes all this, is, in his own account, himself constructed of it. He is, in short, made of a conglomeration of the very particulars he describes, no more, no less, bound together by and obeying such general laws as he himself has managed to find and to record.
Thus we cannot escape the fact that the world we know is constructed in order (and thus in such a way as to be able) to see itself.

This is indeed amazing.

Not so much in view of what it sees, although this may appear fantastic enough, but in respect of the fact that it can see at all. But in order to do so, evidently it must first cut itself up into at least one state which sees, and at least one other state which is seen. In this severed and mutilated condition, whatever it sees is only partially itself. We may take it that the world undoubtedly is itself (i.e. is indistinct from itself), but, in any attempt to see itself as an object, it must, equally undoubtedly, act* so as to make itself distinct from, and therefore false to, itself. In this condition it will always partially elude itself. — CHAPTER 12

The world is composed of distinctions... — Moliere

The Observer is the observed. — Krishnamurti

Wake up to find out that you are the eyes of the world. — The Grateful Dead

I remain unsure of what sort of thing you think an essence is. — Banno

You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled underfoot. — Matthew 5:13