Philosophy Now Forum

I have posted in other threads that I consider religious societies to be more fit. There is survival value in it, making a larger group act more as a cohesive whole instead of a collection of smaller groups with conflicting individual wills. Patriotism is the same sort of thing. A team plays better ...

I'm having a lot of trouble connecting A to B in any of your examples. (e.g. a universal quantum computer can do weather forecasting which may help out with global warming or fighting disease, etc., etc., etc.) How would a good weather forecast help with global warming or disease fighting? We alread...

When you say more traditional machines, I doubt you mean the ones with vacuum tubes in them. Can you be more specific? Well the concept concerned devices communicating across the universe, which traditionally was done by pointing a dish in the direction you wanted to communicate. That can be done v...

I remember watching a PBS television broadcast many years ago, where a scientist being interviewed said that life itself was proceeding in the direction of solid state electronics, and that mankind would go the way of the dinosaurs. I fantacized The Solid State Convention, a religion for the space ...

Philosophy Explorer wrote:Makes me wonder.

You're asking if I should worship my Mac or if it wants me to?

Which dictionary did you use? Like the definition you get when you type 'define belief' from a google bar: 1. an acceptance that a statement is true or that something exists. 2. trust, faith, or confidence in someone or something. No mention of being closed minded to change of view even in the face...

Galileo added nothing to that experience, and I cannot think of other 'facts' that would mean anything to the average person of the day. Any new or more true, right, and/or correct knowledge would mean some thing to any person of any day. A person completely open to knew ideas would have no reason ...

Yes, but I used the dictionary definition, which says nothing about not being open to alternatives given evidence. Which dictionary did you use? Like the definition you get when you type 'define belief' from a google bar: 1. an acceptance that a statement is true or that something exists. 2. trust,...

Please TRY TO understand that I do NOT have a belief EVER . Therefore, 'I' am NOT much like 'you' at all. The only thing I strive for is to be heard fully, and thus be fully understood. I understood that statement quite a few posts ago. My mistake is, as always, a failure to express my statements i...

If you have ever really noticed I am NOT saying anything much more different than you are. You are just trying to find fault in what I am saying. YOU do this because of YOUR beliefs . You get me wrong. You consider yourself more open than others to new views, as do I. I got that many posts ago. But...

What were the holes at the time? I actually don't know, but all this was pre-Newtonian mechanics, so a simple model of uniform-speed circular or elliptical orbits is going to be off. There is mutual interaction with the larger planets. The sun does not stay put. My points remain with the general pop...

I think it was this statement that seemed to state otherwise, and not make it clear and obvious (my bold): I do NOT hold onto a view nor have a held view . A confusing difference between holding a view but not having a held view. I would never write that intentionally, so IF I did, then it was comp...

You claim to hold no views or beliefs, On the contrary. Before I respond to anything else you have written it appears I will have to clarify something completely wrong that you have written here, so that others are not confused like you are. I never claimed to not have a view, ever. The opposite is...

Anyway, I proposed that planes fly for the same reason that birds fly and boats float - Archimedes principle buoyancy. I got to this solution via philosophy. But I need to check if this reasoning is sound: - Gravity applies to all objects, stationary and moving. - Buoyancy is a product of gravity. ...

Do you really believe that Everyone would, let alone could, be in agreement with what you are proposing here? Would you, could you, agree that there was no holocaust? If not, then NOT Everyone would be in agreement. I would eventually not be around to disagree. Why would anybody agree to the existe...