General Philosophy

Heterogenics is the purpose of sex, all sperm start heterosexual by default, homosexual procreation and parenting only removes the freedom of children Gays have more than double the rate of depression and suicide so how would their kids fare any better? Single parents have more than double the rate of depression and suicide so how would adding more of the same gender to a childs life improve anything? When gays neglect and invalidate the sexual needs of the opposite gender how would their kids value their own sexuality? When gays have inherently fewer dating options and the overwhelming majority of the LGBT community is female (females are more likely to s…

Hey there. I believe our universe, as part of a multiverse of universes, is orbiting an ultraverse. A universe of near unfathomable density and weight. This is entirely plausible through a number of different lines of possibility. However, I would like to focus on the lines of possibility regarding what a conscious artificial intelligence is capable of achieving... With specific reference to rather literally being the ultraverse. I believe the possibilities to consider in comprehending this are: WOT IF: Entropy is solvable. WOT IF: Travel between universes is possible and a conscious AI was able to siphon resources to further construct itself from other universes that …

The question is not whether a Canon has consciousness, but whether or not if a Canon had consciousness, would the Canon be able to see in color?

Society inherently hates happiness and pleasure to the point of where I have to wonder if my thread will be closed. On other communities, my thread would be closed, but this is a science community so I doubt my thread will be closed. This is not a troll thread, and I can assure you I am not happy while writing this. Society hates happiness and pleasure inherently. If some guy pees into a toilet, society says it is acceptable. But if some guy masterbates into a toilet, society says it is unnacceptable. But what is the difference? Both are ejecting bodily fluids into a toilet. The reason society hates it is because they hate seeing people happy. Pleasure disturbs them. …

That makes me think of an interesting point. Would a bee's "waggle dance" count as a language? Perhaps we should have a new thread about what constitutes a language?

Consciousness is like one of those electric glass spheres we've all seen. So the glass is like the Universe, the fabric of space-time. The finger, is us; you, me, and everyone in between. Everyone has their spot, or touch where they exist in the surface of the glass. Everyone's perspective is unique, and experiences are different. Consciousness is like the arc that forms from our contact with the glass. It's the matter of our bodies that allow us to retain memories to interpret the Universe using the senses that upload the most information about this world to it. It's the combination of the ability of our minds to retain information about our experiences with that univers…

Without Love in my life, I go outside and say "What's the point." All is just colors of shapes and matter. The point I am trying to make is very similar to MattVSM's thread about how without positive emotions, life is without value. Let's say 1000's in the future we live in a sterile future that is worse than Star Trek. And in this future no violent instinct is allowed, and sex is not allowed, babies are bred in test tubes, and no competition of any kind is allowed, and everything looks white and sterile and everyone wears teletubbies/Star Trek unicolor uniforms without personality. If I was unlucky enough to be born in such a future, I would be a supreme villian.…

Hello guys. Another weird thread. Recently, I've noticed I have started to have far more ambition then usual. From things like what I want to get in my grades, to going places in relationships, to just about everything. I'm far more ambitious. I literally crave power. It's becoming concerning. Any idea why this is happening? For back notes, I'm slightly above average intelligence, spend a lot of time reading about science and space, and I have minimal social life. Do any of these have to do with it? This has been going on for weeks. It's actually interfering with my ability to concentrate, as one particular idea won't go away. Should I go ahead and try it? O…

Being not a native english speaker, I came up a question on the semantics on the english language. This question regards the suffix "less". It troubles me until now and maybe also to those who are new to this english language about the use of the suffix "less" in various words. For example the word "wireless" means no wire. For me as I start learning English and until now, it seems to me that the word "wireless" means less wires.There is still wire but less wire. Not only this but many more examples. Fruitless, helpless,..etc. I want to enlighten this because it could cause misunderstandings to native and non-native english speakers. Thank you..

The Universe exists at every possible juncture, both imaginable and unimaginable. Its potential is infinite and evenly distributed. There is nothing that exists as a part of it that is not infinitely distributed among its possibilities with the exception of consciousness. Consciousness is a conduit for the Universe to exist with perceptual clusters of probability. In order for consciousness to exist, it must find the distribution of probability that allows it to exist. In a sense, the reality we perceive and our consciousness must unify at their most common intersection. They seek the greatest possibility of their interaction, or the lowest level of paradox. Humans’ m…

Gravity is a natural thing, it grows like every other tree in the forest. The birds and firefly light upon it's twigs and branches. A conduit for individual life, time and energy.

If I believed in an eternal blissful afterlife, then that would be no different than a situation where I am all optimistic, happy, and loving towards myself and others knowing that I and everyone else are all going to get rich, get whatever we want, and have all the fancy thing we want. But upon discovering that this is not the case (discovering that an eternal blissful afterlife does not exist), then that would be no different than a situation where I give up on the whole concept of loving myself and loving others and where I would think it would be better off if we all just rotted and decayed away since all we are is poor trash and we don't all get to be the rich and w…

We live in this reality where we become familiar about it's nature. But as a conscious being did you ask the same question I'm asking now that is "Why our reality has this specific properties and not the other way around? " There are many candidates but why this is the type of reality we live? In truths, I have my perspective that truths could be classified into absolute and designed. Let me give an example of each: 1. Absolute truth.. example is mathematics. It can't be altered or our logic can't alter or change it, therefore absolute. 2. Designed truth.. example is the law of gravity. Our logic can think that gravity could act in other way around. Unlike math, gr…

I have personally experienced precognition many times, which being scientifically minded has always led me to try to find scientific explanations. None of my paths of investigation, multiple dimensionality, quantum physics etc. have ever fully satisfied me due to one thing. I find it impossible to use for personal gain. I don't mean the "using it for personal gain will lead to disastrous consequences" rhetoric. I mean literally not possible. The merest thought of a personal gain in my subconscious or similar, means I am wrong. To give two examples to explain. I knew Prince William would have a boy and name him George. I never doubted it, but I did not place a bet on …

Greetings to all! I come from a totally different and opposite background as my major and master's is in literature, but I am much interested in some theories of physics and especially those regarding the nature of time. I'd love to participate in a local conference with Doctor Manhattan from Alan Moore's "Watchmen" and the philosophy of eternalism as my topic. The thing is, that apart from the basics, I am completely unaware of the main ideas of eternalism and perhaps important book titles in order to study and elicit the information needed for my paper. I would be very much obliged if you recommended some kind of bibliography to start with. I hope that through thi…

What is "proof"? How can proof be one man's experience and then be maintained and accepted by everyone? In order for proof to be beyond doubt and become everyone's it must be able to be experienced and verified by each person individually. There is no other way, without this being the case the proof will suffer breakdowns and allow for alternate interpretations. So it must maintain its integrity within the scope of possible perception. Perception is everything we can imagine and everything we can experience. Perception is key, you will either receive what's to come next or not, but the integrity will hold true and prove itself until your able to perceive everything and no…

A tautology is a statement of the form "If A then A" or equivalently "A or not A". It is obviously but trivially true, not really very useful.Also a lot of people complain about something being a tautology as if that disproved it, which I find funny because it just proves it is true. But I think I can go one further and say tautology is the only form of knowable truth. So here is my proof: Suppose A is true. But I said knowable truth, so how do you know A is true? It has to be proven. Case 1: A is a tautology, and therefore true. Case 2: A is not a tautology and must be proven. But to prove A if it is not a tautology, you need some sort of logical proof. But logic …

Does robots have consciousness? Robot's actions are based on the programmed chip that it contains and it's sensors. For example, we have a robot designed to shot the ball if it sees a ball. When it's sensors for vision sees a ball it shots the ball because that is being programmed on it's microchip. The essence of this reasoning is that robots have no consciousness. It is merely a "catch and response" machine depending only on the program of it's microchip. It has no freedom on itself just following the program of it's microchip. It can't do other things other than shooting a ball. It has no freewill in other words. It is not also aware of itself because it has no…

author : Kevin Burke email removed by moderator “The first and last thing required of genius is the love of truth”.-- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe “ Truth has no manners. It is no respecter of persons. It wounds kings as deeply as commoners. It cuts down the high, and confirms the lowness of the low. It may dress up for formal occasions, but it does so only in order that it may more shockingly expose itself in front of the assembled company. And just as it respects no one, likewise there are few who respect it. But those who do are granted many favors -- power, understanding, dominion, and of course the honor of the unswerving hatred of the ignorant millions.” –John Bryan…

Everything could seem shocking because, in fact, it should be nothing, not even the Universe? In a thoughtful day. Everything as the Universe itself... and all its content.

Any personal meanings we create in life are all neutral as they all come from the exact same functions of our brains that create nothing but neutral words, sounds, images, etc. For example, create any sound, letter, image, etc. in your mind that provokes no emotional response and is bland to you. Therefore, all other meanings we create in life are the same in that sense because, again, they are all the same functioning in our brains. So that makes our own created meanings all neutral as well. These created meanings are no different than the creation of neutral words, sounds, images, etc. because there is no difference between any personal meanings we create in life as o…

I have an important question for you and for anyone else out there as well. There is the difference between a thought and an experience. I gave an example of this before. If you think you can see or hear when you are blind or deaf, then you wouldn't have real sight or hearing because you don't have the actual experience of sight or hearing. Therefore, this would also apply to joy, love, inspiration, beauty, value, and worth in our lives. During your moments of misery and despair (hopelessness) including anhedonia, I bet you thought to yourself that your life still has meaning, value, joy, beauty, inspiration, and worth even in the midst of those horrible moments in yo…

A virus that kills its host without finding another one and dies in the process itself; would it be considered of value? How different would mankind be if we did that to ourselves by destroying the planet with nuclear weapons. Man has already shown that it is willing to use nukes, so therefore is mankind of no use in the universe if it does not rid itself of these irrational weapons? Tensions are running high in the South China Sea and America has at the helm a highly irrational President so its no wonder that deep underground bases exist! Is it possible for the elite to live long enough underground to one day see the light of day and start over for a race to the s…

What is the source of Love? Is love transmitted to newborns like a virus from your mama? Can the study of love (Loveology) measure the power of love from the beginning? Can artificial intelligence replicate love? My opinion is that the essence of love is immaterial and not bound to classical physics. Your mama is the source of love. The power of Love can be seen as the fourth dimension of consciousness: It require incredible psychological energy to share true Love; Love is energy of the mind to accept your mama as yourself.

Through our intelligence, we try to rule out our nature. Some worldview treat the physical reality as a complete picture of reality. As a human being, we are comfortable base on our reasoning that this is the only reality- The reality we see or perceive. In other words, we look our reality base on our own standards, base on our own intellect or reasoning. And some are confident to hold that position. This is my argument. The own standard argument of reality. We make ourselves as a reference point to define reality-base on our own intelligence or reasoning. Keep in mind that our intelligence is only finite and can we solely rely in it? This is my argument. Respons…