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  1. Started by empleat,

    Nietzsche, Goethe, Schopenhauer thought everything is one whole (e.g. consciousness/god): Also that there is no distinction between object-subject, even it is unprovable as Schopenhauer said in his book The World as Will and its representation. Also music is thought to be direct representation to will, as it is a priory to objects of mind, not abstract but thoroughly determinate like universal language and it allows us to get meaning of e.g. dramatic scenes, or what is going on in any given situation. Birth of Tragedy 17. https://www.gutenberg.org/files/51356/51356-h/51356-h.htm I had divine mania like Nietzsche I was everything from homeless man to empe…

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  2. Postulating a Basis for Belief in a Technological Afterlife by Bob Cross I’ve been thinking about the implications of the accelerating advance of technology in our world. Extrapolating this to the far future has led me to postulate the plausible expectation of a non-supernatural afterlife – a Technological Afterlife. Think about the advance of technology we’re experiencing. Compare 2023 vs. 1923. Compare that to 1923 vs. 1823, etc. It’s advancing exponentially. So, imagine what will be possible – not just in a century – but in millennia. I like to use Arthur C. Clark’s idea about what vastly advanced civilizations will be like to us…

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  3. Started by geordief,

    I understand we can't say which might apply. If one was ,or was shown to be the case and the other was not ,would it make any practical or philosophical (or any other sort of) difference? For instance would it make any difference to how we understand our own "place in the world" ? (and is that a weighty question?)

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  4. Started by hantaba,

    who can i win money in internet ?

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  5. Started by Boltzmannbrain,

    The main questions of this thread are: 1. Is it logically possible for the totality of an infinite number of objects to exist? 2. Can infinity end? (such as an infinitely long line or an infinite row of objects) When I think about it logically, the full extent of an infinitely long line or all of an infinite amount of objects should not be able to exist. I come to this conclusion simply due to the idea that in an infinite row of objects there is no last object. However, that is just where I am at right now; I may be persuaded otherwise. The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy has three definitions of infinity here, Let's use…

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  6. Started by Psyche and Beyond,

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  7. Practical Explanation ( For Example ) :- `1st of all can you tell me every single seconds detail from that time when you born ?? ( i need every seconds detail ?? that what- what you have thought and done on every single second ) can you tell me every single detail of your `1 cheapest Minute Or your whole hour, day, week, month, year or your whole life ?? if you are not able to tell me about this life then what proof do you have that you didn't forget your past ? and that you will not forget this present life in the future ? that is Fact that Supreme Lord Krishna exists but we posses no such intelligence to understand him. there is also next life. and i al…

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  8. In geometry class, when we draw a general triangle, we're bound to draw a triangle that's either right, or acute, or obtuse, but cannot draw general one.In that case, in what form does the general triangle exist?

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  9. I'd like to preface this with the fact that I will be studying philosophy in parallel at university, this reading list might be a grandiose pipe dream, and that I expect with quite strong plausibility that I'll get through only a fraction of this list, hence the tier-system. Additionally, I'm already financially secure. Yes, I'm somewhat of a shallow pseudointellectual and my reasoning behind why these philosophers isn't particularly deep, as well as not being bothered with attaining actual truth or rigorous, because I love and like the diverse qualia reading philosophy provides for me, so whether such qualia is fallacious, "fake", or a false illusion or not is not my con…

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  10. Started by dimreepr,

    Imagine you were given 3 wishes, everything within the laws of physics are possible, the wishes have to be specific (you can't just wish for everyone to be happy or rich or etc.). How could we specify the first two wishes, so we don't have to spend the third cancelling the first two? It's not as straightforward as it might appear, if looked at scientifically.

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  11. Started by Saber,

    Do you think that the human evolution in terms of civilization & technology and also social evolution would be exponential ? and we would be exploring the galaxys an the universe in the future ? and like curing all types of diseases and these king of stuff ? Or like me do you think our advance & evolution has limits and its limited by our own nature and it would have a peak and after that everything would start to fall apart ? And our civilization would start to gradually collapse In my opinion we have past the peak and started to downfall for about a decade or so

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  12. For anything to exist in the observable universe, it must be real and not real. Why is this true but not (true and false)? The observable universe is real and not real because of quantum entanglement and the waveform. The universe is not applying values to it's particles unless an observer is perceiving that part of the universe. The observer makes the universe real from their perception of the universe. Quantum entanglement is the universe's way of creating new information. When particles are entangled in waveform, this allows for the function of creating new information when the waveform collapses. What is a subjective truth? A subjective truth is real to…

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  13. Life is an test where someone gets easy question and someone gets hard question but only those pass who prepared well for test. it is not necessary easy one will pass and hard one will fail but those who give up on little possibility of success will fail. I always think my work is an headache but one day when i was walking on the street and see some people starving at the side of street i decided to talk to them (because i was bored and have free time) i ask them why don't they work and earn money they tell me that they want to work but because of lack of education they can not get work. Then i ask them why they not study when they were young. They tell me that the…

  14. I always think my work is an headache but one day when i was walking on the street and see some people starving at the side of street i decided to them (because i was bored and have free time) i ask them why don't they work and earn money they tell me that they want to work but because of lack of education they can not get work. Then i ask them why they not study when they were young. They tell me that they want to study but can not get tution fee . I ask them why not work to earn tution fee and what about your parents they told me they are orphan and they work hard day and night but can not earn enough for tution fee other person say that by working very hard he have e…

  15. “Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. If you think i am wrong than deeply sorry.

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  16. I'm working on an independent research of social technology “civilisation efficiency index” and “index of a civilisation’s development”. Interesting to hear opinions on the issues: - What can/should be present in this index? (ex. integration of the algorithm which is making it difficult for politicians to use the “demagogy of pessimism” (regulatory function in relation to accessibility heuristics) or finally start teaching quantum physics from the first grade of primary school) -How do you see the algorithm for the Index? General recommendations. Proceed on the basis of the following assumptions Main aim is not only to create and calculate the Civilisat…

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  17. Started by purpledolly79,

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  18. After consulting with humanity's newest friend, ChatGPT, I now have a newfound perspective on the way forward. My perspective can be summed up in the phrases from dark comes light, from one understand all, and from faith, there is progress. I feel these phrases are quite beautiful and pack tons of meaning into them but before you notice anything else, I would like you to notice how it seems to flow in a progressive way. First, there is light, then one became all and everything within it kept becoming more and more complex, then humans arrived, and we started with faith and now we have progress. The phrases line up in a progressive way and I'm here to tell you that it is a…

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  19. Started by Brainee,

    What is reductionism?

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  20. I watched a Youtube video tonight that pulled together a few lines of thought that I'd been pondering over without linking them together. What really grabbed me was the contrast between the fragility and improbability of complex civilisation with the indestructability of quantum information. Why such a visceral reaction to this? Well I've not taken part in any democratic process for over 25 years on the grounds of too much hassle; I don't live in the country where I could vote; my vote probably wouldn't make much of a difference anyway. And yet those decisions not to act, via the indestructabilty of quantum information, must have measurable consequence…

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  21. There are some critical differences between how traditional AI works and machine learning/ neural networked AIs work. For this argument I am defining sentience and consciousness as how humans have sentience and consciousness (whatever that is, which is why I don't like creating logic using consciousness but please bear with me none the less). There is a defined difference between truth and reality. Our realities are most likely the way in how we perceive the truth, because the truth could be beyond our current comprehension. The best system we have for defining truth is through logic. Much of the way we perceive the truth isn't logical, it's most likely emotional. There i…

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  22. Dedication : To the soul of Abdel Rahman Badawi (1917 - 2002) , the late Egyptian philosopher who was a major reason for the interest and reading of many people in the Arab world for Western and Eastern philosophies. Preface : To whom it may concern , I present this simplified English translation of the essay "The Last Messiah" to all the lovers of Philosophy and Anthropology around the world , especially to the speakers of English as a second language. When I was completing this translation , I took into account that I must simplify - as possible - all the words and expressions that some may find ambiguous or might be misunderstood , and I did that - as possi…

  23. Started by cpu68,

    1. diagram. Logistic development Logistic development (see diagram and for example my text Sociological theory) can explain a difference between a qualitative change and quantitative change. It shows that each kind of so called qualitative change, like for example liquefaction of gas, is just some form of quantitative change. Marxists are using conception of change where quantitative changes transform to qualitative change. But this idea is containing fundamental mistake that there is a difference between qualitative and quantitative change. What I would like to emphasize is each so called qualitative change, for example the transition of water into ic…

  24. Started by Saber,

    Some of you may know Rumi......the Iranian poet........from * im Iranian my self he lived in the 13th century...... reading some of his poems i saw he states that the planets are 9 .......i have read 2 of his poems that in them he clearly indicates them being 9 .... But the planets have been discovered only up to Saturn ( the 6th ) .....@ that time............those two poems i read made me wonder how he new about them being 9 We had another philosopher called Azziz Al din nassaifi who was not a poet but he wrote books..............and he also lived in the 1…

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  25. Started by JacobNewton,

    Where are we headed? To answer this question, its important to consider the obvious facts: history revolves in circles. The cosmic equation, if there were one, is inclined to go round and round like a merrygoround. In other words, what has happened before must happen again and again and again. Does the bee not buzz repetitively? Do humans not reproduce, and die, then live, and die again in that order, eternally? 'Course they do. And that manifestation of cyclic rebirth and death, of a myriad forms of existence, is surely a big player in the question of 'where is the universe headed?' I reckon we've been going round and round like that merry go ro…

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