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Okay, you do have me here. If you are taking the German Idealist approach to Philosophical writing then you will probably succeed in what you are trying to achieve. But what good will it do for others? An approach that maybe one in millions will have time to understand. And only every few decades. Y...

You mean to tell me that (The color of metals can change by heat. Hegel in his Philosophy of Nature displays two examples, silver when heated its color reaches a point where it attains a bright lustre, called silver gleam, it is only momentary but, before this silver gleam all the colors of the rai...

That'll be the one.

Oo! Oo! Just checked my shelves and Quantum Mechnics for Beginners is a great introduction. Comic book form but covers the whole history in an informative and interesting way.

Barbara, You gotta stop posting girl. You are off your trolley if you think you are making sense within the English language. Take time out and narrow your thoughts into a form that makes sense in English, not the stream of consciouness that you are exhibiting. Its a forum. Not a blog. With all love...

Hi John,
QED by R. Feynman.
Does not deal with QM but gives you the understanding of where it came from.

...If I were to discount all the objections that the religious minded tend to put forth in the defense of their cherished positions and ask you, "what is your main arguement for the incapatability of intellegent design / evolution" what would be your own persanal response ? Hi Jack, It's ...

Hi Rort,
One reason why no replies might be because with a name like Rortabend we think, you think, you might have an answer. So we might as well wait to read what it is

Voice which can be wonderful in its utterance of self-feeling. That which is inward for itself has a voice. We sentient creatures show outwardly our feelings, we emit cries when in pain, need, hunger, pleasure, joyfulness, in heat horses neigh, insects hum, cats purr. Agreed. The voice is that of t...

Hi Barbara, Given the latest episodes upon this forum would it be possible for you to move your language to a slightly more colloquial form? After all, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel spoke the German language, and whilst in translation it could be opaque, in German it was quite precise, as English ca...

Hi bullwinkle, ...It seems that a complex adaptation which is achieved in stages requires every stage to have some survival advantage. I find it quite difficult to see how it is in the nature of these small changes to add up to the achievement of something like a brain. It is as if we are explaining...

Mathematics is to gaze towards the full perfection that ought to be. Yeah but we've learnt the problem with 'ought' to be's. Not in a restricted manner of squaring extending applying and the like but drawing mind towards truth. but its the "...squaring extending applying.." that does the ...

...Educators today are concerned only with philosophers personal shortcomings not with the studies or rather the examinations. They make these personal shortcomings their system of teaching, even though they have no real idea of what philosophy is except to say the philosophy is essential... Can't ...

Now you're making me all weepy.

I'd hoped it would not be read this way. Hi AS, Like you I enjoy dipping into the stream of consciousness that is Barbara. I have noticed the correlation and would not wish Barbara to disappear as it would be a loss to this forum. Hi Barbara, I have no intention or power to nest push :) It was just ...