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Most laws come originally from tradition, and this way, have a bound with religion. The problem is to impose an international law, you should have an international government, which don't exist. -I don't faith in ontological idea - which consist in saying that something "is true because it is t...

Amad27, I tried anyway your problem to consider it completely. There is much time I have not done physics, so be tolerant. I was about to consider a complete (closed) system - the temperature being constant, I could invoke the law of perfect gases. But this was about to consider more parameters than...

Hello there, Recently I have been discovering the cooperative principle and have been applying to mathematics. Consider a word problem "A spherical balloon is inflated with gas at the rate of 800 cubic centimeters per minute. How fast is the radius of the balloon increasing at the instant the ...

Here's why suffering is actually a good thing that could happen to a person. The reason(s) why suffering is actually good for a person is because it is part of a process of thinking and the start of a long spiritual path to Enlightenment and Liberation from the Material world. I believe that judgin...

Hi Jackles, I saw you posted another similar topic, but answer in this one, because the title is more explicit. I don't really understand the relation between celerity of light and the conscious. But I developed a reasoning about c, some months ago in another forum. I understood why physicists give ...

Sometimes, fate makes the good coincidences.

I won't test anyone, because I am not advanced in the book.

N. B. to all:
The image above is of Escher.

Neither it is what it is. Perhaps what is of more interest is how others see it... http://www.cibomahto.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Eschers_Relativity-600x571.jpg Hi Blaggard, I am complimented of your answer, because you are illustrating with one of my nowadays references. --> http://forum.phil...

Hi, This topic to write about Goedel Escher Bach, by Douglas Hofstadter. To be brief, I believe to know that Douglas Hofstadter is a physicist nowadays active in cognitive psychology and computer science ("only that"). The book seems to have been written about the question to know if the u...

(I edited my previous post) WanderingLand, Some contradictors invoke some radioactive junks in chemical explosives, to justify the radioactivity... These "ill people", as I say, only move the problem to another place: An intensive radioactivity imply a more or less short half-period. This ...

Hi Bravo (the name of a test equivalent to about 15 megatons of TNT... in energy ), Yes, I also heard at these time - from my sister - that the total ammunition of all nations could "destroy the planet". But I am not so sure as you. This is not the explosions themselves that could realize ...

In fact, I am corresponding with you.

You know... I think we have needs to live, and not the reverse.

Humhum... I think it is in trying to conciliate philosophy and life, because they are in this case separated... -I opt for the opposite point of view. Yes there are needs, but I don't give them much meaning - exactly for the reason they are what they are (needs - so imperatives).* I introduce you to...

The imperative to preserve is a problem I'm wprking on in my philosophy and science of needs, so I've touched on similar questions before. Ah, okay. For me, most inherent meanings are: duty, pleasure. And all that derivate, as work, eat,... But most of them are "biological needs", what do...

Ok, a title, generally, is not philosophic in itself.

I wanted not to make a generality about the counterparts (examples of philosophic titles).

The point was the list.
You should see that the content was really a list, and only pose some ideas.

WanderingLands, The dialogue seems impossible, although you have much courtesy. -You should take your distance from these ill people. -The first link don't tell anything: The problem is, yellow indicates a relatively low temperature combustion of a hydrocarbon, while nuclear blasts are claimed to re...