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  • The paradox of omniscience
    I thought knowing that p (a proposition) meant that I couldn't be wrong if to be wrong means p is false.

    For a contingent truth q, there's a possible world in which q is false.

    Is the OP getting mixed up between falsehood (in our world) and contingent truth (could be a falsehood in some other world)?
  • Antinatalism Arguments
    I don't know your particular take.. give me a summary and I can talk to that. — schopenhauer1

    A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants. — Schopenhauer
  • Is knowledge a prerequisite to wisdom?
    Partly, the justification bit, yes!
  • Antinatalism Arguments
    Slave.. ok.. go on.. how? — schopenhauer1

    You should know schopenhauer1.
  • Antinatalism Arguments
    ↪schopenhauer1
    There is a certain sense in which one is made a slave by being born. True that some have a blast but still...
  • Post Your Personal Mystical or Neurotic-Psychotic Experiences Here
    I thought I had mystical experiences, but I checked them against the real McCoy and it turns out mine don't make the cut:

    Agent Smith, you're not even wrong! — Wolfgang Pauli

    :snicker:
  • Conceptualizing Cosmic Consciousness
    But doesn't reason actually work in the direction of transcending one level towards another, as I attempted to describe? A highly trained musician can actually perceive elements in a performance that untrained listeners cannot. There is an experiment where a cat's brain does not even register a particular tone (that is within it's audible range) until the tone has been paired with an associated significant stimulus (like food). In A Neurocomputational Perspective Paul Churchland suggests that attaining a sufficient insight into the mechanics of the mind might generate an associated direct awareness thereof. — Pantagruel

    Possible; I just feel we don't/can't do leaps; graduated progress is the usual deal.
  • I have understood...
    ↪180 Proof


    There are people who claim they're men/women trapped in a woman's/man's body. I can't rule out anything at all.
  • "The Lord shall beat off" - Funny Verse From the KJV Isaiah
    English as she is spoke.
  • Internal thought police - a very bad idea.
    I'm not sure if this is relevant but do modern penitentiaries have ethics programs for prisoners? They should, riiiiiiggghhht?
  • Conceptualizing Cosmic Consciousness
    As I see it, our conception of cosmic consciousness (oooh!) is limited to only scaling up what is possible with human consciousness; leaps in consciousness - taking the mind to the next level - is, to my reckoning, beyond our ken. That is not to say we can't speculate; we can and we should. After all something's better than nothing, oui mes amies?
  • How can there be billionaires while good people are dying?
    Maybe it's just that the super rich aren't well-informed! Also, I hear gettin' rich is tough on your soul - you lose something along the way...to untold riches, oui mo ami?
  • Salman Rushdie Attack
    ↪javi2541997
    I stand corrected then!
  • Jordan Peterson, controversy, following guidelines on discussion forums, free speech.
    ↪universeness


    Précisément!

    A time and place for everything, oui?
  • Is logic an artificial construct or something integral to nature
    That’s a little unfair. Especially as his Nobel was for his contribution to quantum physics - the photoelectric effect. — apokrisis

    :up: I was probably referring to his "God does not play dice" comment.
  • Salman Rushdie Attack
    Why in Indonesia? It is true they are Muslims, but they are not extremists as much as Saudi Arabia or Iran. — javi2541997

    Indonesia because it's the world's largest Muslim nation. It hasn't issued fatwas (yet) but if memory serves some Indonesians did go on record that they would kill for Islam.
  • Jordan Peterson, controversy, following guidelines on discussion forums, free speech.
    ↪universeness
    Different strokes for different folks! It isn't exactly eastern to be coy.Silentium est aurum is in Latin; I guess the saying resonated at quite a deep level with Western audiences. I dunno.
  • The paradox of omniscience
    ↪Michael
    I'm stumped Michael. It appears that the time has come for more nuanced acceptance of facts.
  • Jordan Peterson, controversy, following guidelines on discussion forums, free speech.
    Sorry for the late reply to this, again, nothing appeared in my 'mentions' section to indicate your posting here. — universeness

    Oh! Rather curious that!

    I have the physical and mental scars from past clashes that seem to indicate that I cannot partake of that particular protection. — universeness

    Oh well, too bad. Have you come across of ishin-denshin or in Western terms tacit understanding aka implicature?
  • The paradox of omniscience
    ↪Michael


    In my book, "possibly being wrong" is fallibilism which precludes omniscience sensu strictissimo.
  • Salman Rushdie Attack
    What worries me is this: An attack on a freethinker such as Salman Rushdie is a) possible and b) that too in the US of A. Had this happened in Iran or Indonesia, it would've made complete sense. The fatwa (death sentence) was issued in Iran and the near-execution took place in the USA.
  • The paradox of omniscience
    We then conclude that I could be wrong even if I know everything — Michael

    As far as I can tell that's a contradiction: know and wrong are mutually exclusive, oui?
  • Is logic an artificial construct or something integral to nature
    To my reckoning, if logic is artificial in that it's our mind imposing itself on the world, the world should be incomprehensible to us and yet...

    The most incomprehensible thing about the Universe is that it is comprehensible. — Albert Einstein

    The knife cuts both ways though.

    Einstein, by the way, was wrong, so they say, about quantum physics. In what sense and degree is an open question nonetheless.

    That's all she wrote.
  • I have understood...
    ↪180 Proof


    The Einstein Standard

    If you can't explain it to a 6-year-old, you don't understand it yourself. — Albert Einstein
  • Question II
    How do you conceive of this thing which is not A? — Daniel

    A is round and green.

    Not-A is neither round nor green

    That which is round xor green is Aish.

    Humble apologies for buttin' in.
  • Question
    If you check the universe there are tons of entities with no parts — javi2541997

    And some of them are...
  • A Good Read.
    Jim Al-Khalili's 9 enigmas of physics. Just finished chapter 1 and it sets the stage for paradoxes by discussing some of the most famous ones from Greek antiquity (vide Zeno); Jim promises an exhilirating journey through Physics' many solved/unsolved mysteries.
  • Question
    Unless you're agreeing with me, I don't understand how. An elaboration would be much appreciated. — absoluteaspiration

    I'm way in over me head mon ami! Sorry.
  • Question
    What about a photon decaying into an electron-positron pair? — absoluteaspiration

    Haven't you answered your own query?
  • Question
    Through an intermediary, yes; by itself, nyet!
  • I have understood...
    What does it mean to understand?
  • How to practice acceptance and gratitude if fw is illusion?
    I Am very rational — empleat

    :up: You're on the right track mon ami!
  • What Are You Watching Right Now?
    ↪Changeling
    Lucky you! :up:
  • What Are You Watching Right Now?
    I have 3 categories when it comes to media

    1) What I should watch.

    2) What I want to watch.

    3) What I end up watching.

    :snicker:
  • Who believes in the Flat Earth theory?
    ↪180 Proof
    True, fear has a way of turning reality on its head and that's putting it mildly. In addition though, there's dissatisfaction aka dukkha and it manifests on occasion as ennui: Life, boring! Then the obvious reaction - fantasizing, the explosion of virtual worlds (games/internet) attests, naturally. It all boils down to getting that dopamine surge we seem so addicted to. At some point we just havta trust our biochemistry, that it's leading us towards the light so to speak. There will come a time nonetheless when we can (re)design our bodies, (bio)chemically, to customize our emotions so that, at a minimum, we don't enjoy inflicting pain on others (say no to sadism). Of course all this makes sense only within current moral paradigms. Panta rhei, oui monsieur?
  • On Meditation
    Meditation, as is generally prescribed in Eastern religious-philosophical traditions, is basically stillness of mind mostly but also of the body. I definitely don't meditate in any sense of that word but it is on my wish list; plus whenever I become aware that there is such a thing as meditation, like just now, I try to.

    In the west, meditation is simply pondering deeply on a particular topic of interest à la René Descartes (vide Meditations).
  • A share
    Nice! It's quite sad that he seems to have neglected the full breadth and depth of (ancient) Indian philosophy, of Indian origin though he was.
  • What to do, what to do?
    ↪Pantagruel
    :smile:
  • Philosophical Aphorisms, Quotes and Links et al
    90% of everything is crud. — Sturgeon's Revelation
  • To smokers: What request would make you refrain from smoking in a part. situation?
    Back somewhere around 2004, breathing air in New Delhi was equivalent to smoking a packet of coffin nails a day. So yeah....smoking, breathing city air, it's the same thing, bruh!
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