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Le 29-déc.-06, à 16:41, Jef Allbright a écrit :
Bruno -
It appears that you and I have essential agreement on our higher-level
epistemology.
It is possible. Note that in general those who appreciates the
hypotheses I build on, does not like so much the conclusion, and vice
versa, those w
Le 29-déc.-06, à 10:57, Tom Caylor a écrit :
Just to clear this up, my above statement was not meant to be an
argument. I purposefully used the word "entail" rather than "imply". I
wasn't saying that you cannot believe in some kind of truth without
believing in the personal God. However is
Le 30-déc.-06, à 07:53, Stathis Papaioannou a écrit :
there is no contradiction in a willing slave being intelligent.
It seems to me there is already a contradiction with the notion of
"willing slave".
I would say a willing slave is just what we call a worker.
Or something related to sexu
Le 30-déc.-06, à 17:07, 1Z a écrit :
Brent Meeker wrote:
> Everything starts with assumptions. The questions is whether they
> are correct. A lunatic could try defining 2+2=5 as valid, but
> he will soon run into inconsistencies. That is why we reject
> 2+2=5. Ethical rules must apply
Le 30-déc.-06, à 22:32, Tom Caylor a écrit :
... On the other hand, I see many people die because they
judge that life is not worth living. I see others paradoxically
getting killed for the ideas or illusions that give them a reason for
living (what is called a reason for living is also an
Hi John:
One example of what I am saying would be the way we drill holes in
the earth and pump out oil and oxidize it and the resulting energy
flux soon dissipates, can do little more useful work, and radiates
into space. If the oil was left in place it could be many millions
of years befor
Le 31-déc.-06, à 04:59, Stathis Papaioannou a écrit (to Tom Caylor):
Of course: questions of personal meaning are not scientific questions.
Physics may show you how to build a nuclear bomb, but it won't tell
you whether you should use it.
But Physics, per se, is not supposed to answer this
Stathis Papaioannou wrote:
...
Pain is limited on both ends: on the input by damage to the physical
circuitry and on the response by the possible range of response.
Responses in the brain are limited by several mechanisms, such as
exhaustion of neurotransmitter stores at synapses, negative fe
Bruno Marchal writes:
Le 30-déc.-06, à 07:53, Stathis Papaioannou a écrit :
> there is no contradiction in a willing slave being intelligent.
It seems to me there is already a contradiction with the notion of
"willing slave".
I would say a willing slave is just what we call a worker.
Or s
Bruno Marchal writes:
Le 31-déc.-06, à 04:59, Stathis Papaioannou a écrit (to Tom Caylor):
> Of course: questions of personal meaning are not scientific questions.
> Physics may show you how to build a nuclear bomb, but it won't tell
> you whether you should use it.
But Physics, per se,
Brent Meeker writes:
>> Pain is limited on both ends: on the input by damage to the physical
>> circuitry and on the response by the possible range of response.
>
> Responses in the brain are limited by several mechanisms, such as
> exhaustion of neurotransmitter stores at synapses, negative
Stathis Papaioannou wrote:
Brent Meeker writes:
>> Pain is limited on both ends: on the input by damage to the
physical >> circuitry and on the response by the possible range of
response.
> > Responses in the brain are limited by several mechanisms, such as
> exhaustion of neurotransmitter
Brent Meeker writes:
> Brent Meeker writes:
>
>> >> Pain is limited on both ends: on the input by damage to the
>> physical >> circuitry and on the response by the possible range of
>> response.
>> > > Responses in the brain are limited by several mechanisms, such as
>> > exhaustion of neu
SP: ' In the end, what is "right" is an irreducible personal belief,
which you can try to change by appeal to emotions or by example, but not
by appeal to logic or empirical facts. And in fact I feel much safer
that way: if someone honestly believed that he knew what was "right" as
surely as he
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