Monthly Archives: March 2019

Ken Wilber on Jordan Petersen

Posted on March 31, 2019 by Ted Howard NZ

Ken Wilber: Jordan Peterson, Sam Harris & Truth To be clear – I am in the limited free will camp that Ken describes and align to a degree, but not entirely aligned with anyone else I’ve met or heard. All … Continue reading →

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Quora Morality

Posted on March 31, 2019 by Ted Howard NZ

Quora – Can moral be equated to what does not hinder or hurt other life, and what is immoral equated to what does? Kind of in part, and it seems to be deeply more complex than that. It seems that … Continue reading →

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Minimum wage and UBI

Posted on March 31, 2019 by Ted Howard NZ

In Foundations of logic Group – 5 Reasons Raising the Minimum Wage Is Bad Public Policy I’m all for eliminating minimum wage laws, but only after there is a genuine livable universal basic income that is there for everyone, every … Continue reading →

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Hyped up titles and life extension

Posted on March 31, 2019 by Ted Howard NZ

This Link was posted in the facebook group Life Extension and my response was posted there Revolutions: The incredible potential of induced pluripotent stem cells This sort of hype (the title) just annoys me. This was basic and obvious to … Continue reading →

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Logic and paranormal

Posted on March 31, 2019 by Ted Howard NZ

Foundations of Logic – Mariyan Antony asked – “What if logic, reason, intuition, is paranormal?” Consider an alternative formulation: Evolution does not require model accuracy. Evolution works on differential survival. Survival in any real situation always has elements of time … Continue reading →

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Quora – Will climate change effect Longevity?

Posted on March 31, 2019 by Ted Howard NZ

Will climate change start to affect human longevity? If so, how? I doubt it. We have several things happening at present that few people think about accurately. We have exponential trends in computer processing power, which leads to exponential trends … Continue reading →

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Global Citizen – Ending poverty

Posted on March 31, 2019 by Ted Howard NZ

Global Citizen – How We Can Be the Generation to End Extreme Poverty Effective transformation requires exponential technology. It also requires a level of honesty not at all common today. It requires questioning everything. It requires accepting all the truths … Continue reading →

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Free Will – yet again

Posted on March 31, 2019 by Ted Howard NZ

Is Free Will illusion. It depends entirely on the assumption sets one accepts. If everything has strict causality, then free will is entirely illusion. If reality is constrained randomness at the Planck scale or lower (rather than strict causality), then … Continue reading →

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Origins of life on Earth

Posted on March 31, 2019 by Ted Howard NZ

Sigurd shared – “Is life a bizarre fluke or is it a cosmic imperative”? Paul Davies on the Origins of Life Checked out both links. It is highly unlikely that we will be able to determine exactly how life started … Continue reading →

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Climate Change

Posted on March 31, 2019 by Ted Howard NZ

It seems clear to me that the problem of maintaining a reasonably steady temperature and sea level is real enough (at least to some significant degree). Human induced warming is definitely a strong possibility, but the climate stability of the … Continue reading →

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