GENIUS FORUMS

Anyway, random things can easily have a predictable result. Generate a random number between 1 and 100. Do that a thousand times. Then average all the random numbers together. The result will be 50, or something quite close. :-)

Faust13 wrote:

Unidian wrote:I see no problem with a functionally deterministic "classical" world emerging at the macroscopic level from an acausal quantum substrate.

how can an acausal system create a causal one?

How can colorless photons and subatomic particles create the beautiful array of colors we see each day?

I do it because it's fun, not because I think anyone necessarily "needs" humor. If you would like to go without it, I suppose that's your choice. But I'm not trying to "cure" Genius Forum by dosing it with silliness as a "medicine" or something. :-P

That's interesting how when a thread gets into deeper subject matter Philo is liable to come along and poop in it, and kick it up, like a fat little dog. Well, it interests me that whenever I inject some levity into this poker-faced den of philosophy and lofty navel-gazing, a "deeper than thou...

Unidian wrote:Philo, have you come here to hold my hand? Let's hope so. There is much femininity to be be spread while the night is young.

Indeed!

I'm attacking the darkness! Hehehehehe...

LOL.

That's right. I'm talking about THE SUPER BOWL.

Surely all of you spiritual men are tuned in?

Indignation or indifference.

I think that people here like to adopt an uncommon definition of "genius" and apply it to themselves in order to bolster a romantic self-image of themselves as solitary, profound, and misunderstood philosopher-sages.

Jason wrote:Why is this the more important issue? Because you derive(or hope to derive) pleasure from holding this stance?

Well, what people actually do has more bearing on my own goals and experiences than a bland psychological fact (people seek good feelings and avoid bad ones), so yes, sort of.

This kind of observation is important, but not particularly insightful. Yeah, people like to feel good and dislike feeling bad, so they seek the former and avoid the latter. So what? The more important issue is how people go about doing this, e.g. whether they seek good feelings through murder and n...

An emotion is just a kind of mental sensation, a feeling. I don't see how a sensation itself can be "delusional." Maybe you mean that emotions are somehow "caused" by delusional beliefs. At the fundamental level, people want to have certain types of experiences and not have certa...

Do away with greed. That would go a hell of a long way. But to do that, I think, we need to get rid of the idea a supernatural self - i.e. one separate from Nature in some sense. When we view ourselves solely from the perspective that we are existentially, inherently individual , then the underlyin...

andy shaker wrote:What shall we start with?

Do away with greed.

I FIND YOUR LACK OF MASCULINITY DISTURBING.

Nick Treklis wrote:Always need a helping hand don't you? Don't worry I'm sure Philo will be here soon enough to hold your hand.

Quick, Nat, let's hold hands! :-D

Sam, I don't think I've encountered anyone else who has the tenacity to write such long posts so consistently. Well, maybe Warrior Seer, but he's insane, so I don't know if he should count. :-P

Unidian wrote:But if they are not man-made, who or what is making them? Got a hypothesis on that?

Unicorns!

I'll say it again for you: disrespect does not automatically inhere in actions or ideas. It must be intended and felt.

But it is intended and felt, or at least it seems to be judging by much of what gets written around here. This thread is a typical example.

I have made peace with my feminine nature.

Well, that seems to presume (or at least imply) that "government" is more or less an ideologically monolithic entity. I don't think it is. True, but neither is private business. There are quite a few nonprofits that specialize in conservation of lands and species, plus for-profit business...

I think it is a perilous assumption that private business cares about sustainability. This may be true in some instances and not in others. History surely bares this out. I agree, but I have to admit that many governments also care little for sustainability, for example the Bush admin's approval of...

The simplest philosophy may not always be the correct one. ;-)