On 08 Jul 2016, at 19:44, Brent Meeker wrote:
On 7/8/2016 1:50 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote:
On 07 Jul 2016, at 23:28, Brent Meeker wrote:
Bacteria solved that problem. Death only came along with sex.
I agree. Death is not a problem. It is a solution of a problem.
I will take a look at the problems you link too, but my opinion is
that Riemann hypothesis is one of the most important problem to
solve.
Then, progressing a bit in mathematical theology, and getting why
people get irrational so easily around that field is rather
important too.
Technically, it would be nice to decide which of the intensional
variants of self-reference fit the best nature's quantum logic.
That would provide actually some light on the 1p-death problem:
what can we expect to live when dying knowing that our
consciousness is not attached to a singular body, but to infinities
of representations of them (in arithmetic, or any Turing complete
theory).
The practical problems is: how to stop the religious lies (1500
years of lies),
Well one step would be to stop using the language of those lies and
referring to "God".
On the contrary. Better to take the original vocabulary, so as not to
hide the excellent work already done. God since Plato and up to the
stealing of theology by the dishonest politics means only "Truth" with
an understanding that it is has to be transcendent relatively to us.
My best book on greek theology are made by christians today. It helps
to understand that christian theologian have pursue that progress. If
you read John Paul II "splendor veritatis text", you can see an
influence of such results and reflexions. Some are important, like the
a will to take distance on literal reading of sacred text, like in the
Bektashi Alevi branch of Islam, who are plausibly the first researcher
Only Atheists agrees with the fundamentalist definition of God, and
indeed, atheism is a variant of christian materialism, on the
theological matter.
and the one simpler (but already difficult): how to stop the lies
in the health field (75 years of lies). How to stop prohibition of
medication, and how to restore the free market (that prohibition
has made disappear).
The free market gave us snake oil and thalidomide.
The free-market makes possible to sell such products with warning, and
medical prescription, or even wise suggestion to take another product
instead. That cannot happen when the "free-market" is offered to
street criminals.
If you study the history of prohibition, you can see that it has
always been a tool by tyrant or politicians to control people and
markets, if not for creating the underground markets, which escapes
all controls and taxes.
You can find many papers on the site of LEAP (Law Enforcement Against
Prohibition): an association of the veteran of the drug war, who
understood from the front line the total non-sense of prohibiting
medication.
Aristotle was wrong on this: humans are not rational animals, but
they are irrational animals. No animal would kill another animals
based on fairy tales pseudo-theology,
But they would to eat or succeed in breeding.
Yes, and we too. Yet, killing to eat that is more rational than to
kill in the name of the non nameable.
but humans do that all the times, and it is part of the source of
the human suffering.
"Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can
never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them. "
--- David Hume
That is my favorite quote by Hume. You might elaborate if you think it
is not in line with what I said in what you quoted.
"If everything on Earth were rational, nothing would happen."
--- Fyodor Dostoevsky
Well, that is the restricted conception of "rational" before the
discovery of the universal machine, which we know put a lot of mess in
Platonia.
In fact the roots of irrationality are rational. Or better, the root
of surrationality (the non provable truth, G* \ G, Z1* \ Z1, etc.) is
rational.
It is not really rational to be irrational, but it is irrational to
deny the surrational.
Note that Dostoievski suggested a definition of consciousness very
close to the one given by the universal machine: consciousness is the
possibility of truth, he said, which is close to <>t. Of course, <>t
is only an arithmetical approximative representation, but for sound
first order logical theories, it is already true and unprovable, and
equivalent with the statement of the existence of some reality (model,
in the sense of the logicians).
The big general problem is the suffering of people, especially
children. Buddha made some progress in the right direction, I
think, but the path is still long before we get rational (like
buddha was) on this.
The Buddha said life is suffering. The solution is to avoid
reincarnation. He was reacting to the Hindu idea of endless
reincarnation, which one might easily find dismaying.
Indeed.
Terrestrial immortality is Nirvana procrastination.
Some transhumanist seem to want to repeat the "Hindu error". They
will, and it is part of the life adventure. They will get the point
after eternity ... ;)
Bruno
Brent
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