Interesting angle to my thesis. All I can say is you've managed to keep it real, kudos!

To get to the point, the so-called continuum hypothesis (math) can't be proven/unproven i.e. it's undecidable. This, paradoxically, has been proven. Think along these lines please. Danke for your input.

We simply don't know how to answer the OP's question, period!

Maybe philosophers need to be taught some math especially how to calculate probabilites which is, to my reckoning, the mathematics of possibility. We could, to some extent, silence the skeptics if you know what I mean. :snicker:

@hypericin

Possible, quite possible. Many philosophical ideas are the kind that philosophers haven't really explored in earnest - the mere possibility of some scenario makes philosophers all soooo excited. I'm not saying this is bad, but à la an old forum member, it ain't good either.

I, like everybody else I suppose, don't have the time, nor the resources, for metacognition. The world outside makes me go oooh! aaah! :snicker: Scatter-brained! That's me!

As to have the illusion that you are a king. — dimosthenis

:brow:

It's not as simple as taking any old drug in any old way. — punos

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We deserve the same nothing. — 180 Proof

:lol: Good one! What's the big idea then - all this hullabaloo about having to earn it? Envy/Jealousy/Resentment at the huge dollops of luck some people have? :chin:

barftrix — 180 Proof

:rofl: Absit iniuria Bartricks.

Which premise do you dispute?
— Bartricks
That anyone "deserves" anything. — 180 Proof

Either

1. We deserve nothing

OR

2. We deserve the same thing

Just givin' ya some options, that's all!

My brain tells me this:

1. Real (1 entity)

2. Real + Simulation (2 entities)

Which is simpler?

The novacula Occami: Do not multiply entities without necessity.

Does the world as real suffice as an explanatory framework
for all phenomena or is there something that's inexplicable about what we see around us which necessitates the simulation hypothesis?

As for solipsism, it is simpler - only one person viz. yourself hasta be real instead of 6,999,999,999 others..

A tension now builds - I don't know how to defuse it.

A thousand apologies. — Ranjeet

Overheard a mom talking to her son: I had you so that you would look after me when I'm old. :rofl:

I have no idea what that means. — Jackson

:snicker:

Only that your pride requires blood — Gregory

:grimace: :groan:

For the same reason the Einsatzgruppen and colonial slavers didn't live in concentration camps and plantation fields with their victims. The movie Elysium makes this perennial feature of oppression-exploitation quite clear. — 180 Proof

Most interesting! — Ms. Marple

Wars, (manufactured) famines and (weaponized) pandemics can thin the herds far more cost effectively than "colonizing exoplanets". — 180 Proof

True. The choices are kill humans or kill aliens. No prizes for guessing which of the two options we'll take. Even so, why go through all that trouble - developing space tech is hard and that's an understatement - when you can just club people to death and solve the problem?

well, that answer was no use — Wayfarer

Sorry about that.

Is the sun, the planets with it, simply going around in circles with no particular destination inferrable from its trajectory?

Food for thought: What are the other planets for? Backup spaceships (reserve fleet), to be activated (terraformed) as the sun slowly expands into a red giant?

'Why are we Here?' :chin: — Wayfarer

Indeed :chin:

The question of all questions: What is the meaning of life? What is our purpose?

Meaning is use. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

:chin:

I feel so useless right now! :sad:

Determinism is, in my humble opinion, demonstrable, experimentally i.e. it's a scientific claim.

Free will, one poster remarked, isn't an empirical claim. In defense of this poster, I'd say free will is, after all, a metaphysical topic.

Something's off, it doesn't add up now does it?

Right. I've started a sci-fi novel on a similar idea to that, although I can't find the motivation to finish it. In any case, we have a spaceship suitable for possibly hundreds of millions of years, but it's over-heated, overcrowded and resource-depleted. That is the one that needs our attention. — Wayfarer

:grin:

Ok, you have some skill. — The Merovingian

Spaceship Earth! No obvious destination though! Perhaps in the coming few centuries/even millennia we'll rendezvous with a wormhole, just as planned by...who?

Not exactly a stunt, but close:

The Bogdanoff Affair — jgill

Muchas gracias señor for the link! Intriguing to say the least.

However I did say something to the effect that most plane crashes are due to human error.

You think it's a habit? I'm more inclined to believe it's copycat. Oh well, different strokes for different folks, oui monsieur/mademoiselle?

Most interesting. — Ms. Marple

Indeeed, since the brain is part of the body . — val p miranda

In one way it is, in another way it isn't. We're animals but then we're not too.

It's an even more "basic biological drive" to remain in one's ecological niche. — 180 Proof

Good one! Nonetheless expansionism - the bane of humanity! The world is not enough! Too many mouths to feed, oui monsieur?

Much obliged for the reply - you're up to speed with the latest on interstellar travel. Michio Kaku has a book that has a chapter in using lasers for space travel and as you so rightly pointed out, miniaturization is the key. We should invest in nanotech, I hope some countries/companies are! Fingers crossed.

You might be interested in knowing that Michio Kaku explores the possibility of encoding our consciousness in light and then using lasers to carry it across the universe!

The world is staring down the barrel of a gun! :snicker:

I'm going to bed...alone...as usual. Don't wake me up unless you have some good news! Rip Van Winkle :yawn:

better to die proud — baker

:brow:

Good one!

:up:

Indeed, one can't be too careful these days...

Just a 'quirky' aside. I think in places like Italy, the :ok: symbol is a compliment normally directed towards food. But, is it not places like Mexico/Spain where :ok: is taken as an insult? You are basically making the shape of an anus so 'are you called me an asshole agent smith?' :lol: — universeness

:gasp:

I gotta be more careful! Merci for the heads up! I wouldn't call anyone an asshole, not my style you see!

Do you advocate for a Christian Theocracy? Speaking for myself, not a good idea. Theocracies have a poor track record!

:ok:

Schneider's first rank symptoms of schizophrenia

1. 3^rd person auditory hallucinations
.
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4. Ambivalence (inability to decide)

[From an old book (probably obsolete now) on psychiatry I read around 2 decades ago]

Doubt, though debilitating in the way the OP has outlined, has a silver lining - it forces us to think about how we can/may improve the decision making process or proofs. It can be considered a litmus test of sorts or a gauntlet through which all decisions/proofs have to pass - only the best will survive, albeit battered and bruised. Don't we all want the best? :chin: :brow:

It's just that I find your statement interesting - can't say why though! Sorry if you found that offensive. Absit iniuria.

Thanks for your input. — miranda

:ok:

From an experiential (street-smarts knowledge) perspective the brain ages faster than the body, to the extent allowed, via books/movies/plays/etc. We can learn from the experiences of other people, fictional/real. Isn't that amazing?!

What's that emoji about? — skyblack

A thousand apologies. — Ranjeet

Let's first get some facts out of the way. — skyblack

:brow:

Catch-22: I want to avoid going on dangerous air sorties want to avoid being recognized as (true) AI. So, I want to be declared unfit for duty want to be declared as not (true) AI. However me wanting to be declared unfit for duty wanting to be declared not (true) AI means I am fit (true) AI.

That's what most people would say. I wouldn't wanna stir up a hornet's nest, not now! Good day.

The "current" Republican party wants to establish a Christian Theocracy in the USA - Americanistan guys & gals, Americanistan! :snicker: Good luck my fellow American brothers & sisters, we'll need it!

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Assange had too high an opinion of the American people, period! They don't care about freedom which Wikileaks was all about!

Yeahl, I was just thinking about what you said. There was a thread not too long ago, the OP claimed that anything can be justified.

So, what does an argument that proves free will look like, eh? Makes you wonder, don't it?

Experience of perception: No choice. I like this painting.

Perception of experience: Choice. What kinda a frame would you prefer for the painting sir/ma'am?

:joke:

Why colonize exoplanets? — 180 Proof

It's a basic biological drive?