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Should the law have given control of the cell line to Henrietta’s family? If the law defines the nature of what constitutes family, then by default they can constitute the definition as to what constitutes property rights as property rights and the familial structure are inherently relationships. It...

Eodnhaj, Go easy on me, man...I'm just a smart ape with a pointy stick. Haha, at least we have something in common, I prefer throwing big rocks from high trees. Anyhow to simplify my point: A causal chain can be viewed as a measurement of definition relative to the axioms/primitives they are compos...

I don't want to sound over simplistic, but it may (and I want to emphasize "may") be broken down to one word: Definition.

Eodnhaj, I mention (in passing) up-thread the idea that free will may be a nondeterministic algorithm. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nondeterministic_algorithm *three more placeholders that don't really mean anything[/quote] I agree that there is a level of non determinism, so I will not argue for...

1) We cannot justify human rights; 2) Reason is a useless apparatus to promote human rights; 3) We should concentrate our energies instead on sentimental education. 1) Richard Rorty cannot justifiy concentrating our energies on sentimental education. 2) In order to to concentrate our energies on a s...

I do not understand exactly how determinism can be played against free will. For a will to be free it must manifest order. The aspect of determinism as a causal chain allows a necessary process of propagation that allows a form of creation and/or observation. To eradicate determinism is to eradicate...

Welcome to the forum, I'm sure someone will have something to say about what you post. BTW, what is your 1st language, as it doesn't appear to be English? Haha, It is English. I had just finished work and didn't bother to check grammar. Sorry about that, but I have a bad habit of using proper gramm...

The failure of linear logic (my brief argument) The issue with logic is it's dependence on self-evidence which requires a certain level of subjectivity. This level of subjectivity manifests as all axioms being possibilistic relative to the nature of the observer(s). Because of the possibility nature...

Hi, My name is Eodnhoj7 and to frank I figured I would join here to chill out a bit. I have tried the publishing route, through journals, and found alot of difficulty in expressing original thoughts as I would have to quote other people where I could not in good conscious. I figured that I would ju...

Hi, My name is Eodnhoj7 and to frank I figured I would join here to chill out a bit. I have tried the publishing route, through journals, and found alot of difficulty in expressing original thoughts as I would have to quote other people where I could not in good conscious. I figured that I would jus...

The issue of whether free will is deterministic or "random", really boils down to an issue of definition of a metaphysics of free will. From this perspective, one finds an innumerable amount of definitions. To reduce free will to one definition in many respects leads to a one dimensional v...

If reality is composed of numerical frequencies than is E=MC2 wrong? This is my argument as to why E=MC2 is wrong, according to this premise. Opinions? Criticisms? -Numerical degrees contain as an element an ethereal primitive, as numerical degrees are composed of both abstract and physical elements...

I can't make head or tail of your argument, but the basic idea of energy being equivalent to curvature (if that is what you are claiming), is one way to interpret gravitational energy, as expressed in general relativity. At a push, you can extend that to quantum field theory, which asserts that ene...

The translation key for the equations, assuming someone didn't understand the symbols. Would integrating into article have been better?

Opinions? Curvature As Energy The purpose of this article is to address Einstein's equation of E=MC2 and the nature of energy relevant to the nature of curvature. This article will not address E=MC2 from the perspective of Physics, but rather from the perspective of Philosophy and curvature. From th...