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Bill Wiltrack wrote:.
Desktop computer?...just guessing...
I mean...like you said, paper clips are pretty awesome too.
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I was indeed thinking about printers, to point out the blur of this question!..

Bill Willtrack,
If we had not you, we should INVENT YOU!

Immanuel Can: Here's what you believe, and you're a fool to believe it. Respondent: That's not what I believe. IC: Here's what you believe, and you're a fool to believe it. R: As I said; that's not what I believe. IC: Here's what you believe, and you're a fool to believe it. R: No; that really isn'...

Hi, Have you ever thought about a guy - except me (of course) - who were posting a question, about everyone begin to answer very serious and long text, and that - during this time - the asker just get a Lol of this situation? Or, for those who are students, (I advice you not to do it too often), hav...

Okay, fine, but all depends on "physical". Some psychosis are said to be physical phenomenons... and why should I faith the observation (in the strict sense, as it is used - even if you do not pretend to use it in the strict meaning) rather than the audition? Several people really hear voi...

In any event, Zeno was right that predication presupposes existence (in some sense). It's just that the existence in question might only be fictional/imaginary/conceptual. Ah, thank you Terrapin, I understand much better. But it may only seem very old school to me; okay, I think to understand that ...

Some folks steer clear of belief, saying it’s a filter that influences perception of reality. Some say different. “What you are is a belief; if you let one belief go, you must replace it with another; otherwise, you will drop dead. I am telling you, a clinical death will occur. It is not the near d...

First definition of mind: Mind is essence of any being with the ability to experience, decide and act. 1) Intellect is utility of mind 2) This means that it is impossible to understand mind because intellect is utility of mind 3) This means that it is impossible to perform an act to create mind Oka...

Time in the sense of Newton (independent, universal, fixed, absolute) does not exist. Time in the sense of sequences of events, process, change, flux, does exist but that makes change (becoming) primary and time an abstracted notion from change. Time as typically commonly wrongly perceived does not...

Some folks steer clear of belief, saying it’s a filter that influences perception of reality. Some say different. “What you are is a belief; if you let one belief go, you must replace it with another; otherwise, you will drop dead. I am telling you, a clinical death will occur. It is not the near d...

We experience forms and motions. Time is a concept that we use to have an idea about two motions, one is our standard clock and another is subject of our experience. Hum... some months ago, I really believed that time did not exist. How may we think that time exist? As you wrote, with concurrent me...

Materialism is a system of belief which claims that everything is constituted of matter and any motion of matter can be described by laws of nature. In close form, S'=L(S), where S is the initial state, S' is final state and L is laws of nature. There is however an anomaly in this system of view so...

Lets define Mind and Mental state first. Mind is the essence of every beings with the abilities which allow experiences, decides and acts. Mental state is what Mind can experience and act upon. We know by fact that the experience decision and act are local phenomena. Mind however does not have any ...

Hi, I just finished my first University year (mathematics), and I am writing this since my main interests on mathematics are metamathematics , the philosophy of mathematics and its foundations. I think that to study and analyze maths from this perspective I have to know how to work in certain areas...

Poor times when science and letters are separated... -Notice that the system "whatever" is the best; the one you create. Mathematics, as being in plural, are not a system. And logic is biased since Zeno. So you'll better have to create your own system. -I guess you inserted the adjective &...

What are the foundations of mathematics? Does mathematics require foundations? I hold that recourse to logic, sets or Peano's axioms are all spurious and unnecessary. What is significant about mathematics is the relationship between the symbols. The symbols and the relationships between them and th...