Monthly Archives: April 2019

Foundations of Logic – Is Truth an illusion?

Posted on April 22, 2019 by Ted Howard NZ

I started a discussion on Truth on Foundations of Logic group Is Truth just a sometimes useful illusion? What is truth? What is this idea we have of something being True? Clearly, truth doesn’t just reside in the existence of … Continue reading →

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Quora – AI and mankind

Posted on April 22, 2019 by Ted Howard NZ

Quora – How will artificial intelligence influence mankind? This is an extremely deep and interesting question. Artificial intelligence isn’t a singular thing, it is a spectrum of classes of systems spanning many orders of magnitude, and exponentially expanding for the … Continue reading →

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Foundations of Logic – Truth is transient

Posted on April 22, 2019 by Ted Howard NZ

Original post in FOLogic – by Manju Sambander – Truth is Transient – All agree? Robert Mosimann replied – It was never True that the earth was flat. Depends what one means by true. There are at least three quite … Continue reading →

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Foundations of Logic – Post Modernism

Posted on April 22, 2019 by Ted Howard NZ

Foundations of logic – Has the post modern revolution come full circle? If you believe everything is socially constructed, then you have already been indoctrinated and are beyond influence by evidence. Social construction is one influence among many – and … Continue reading →

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Quora – atomic structure

Posted on April 22, 2019 by Ted Howard NZ

Quora – If an electron is negative and a proton positive, what keeps the electron from flying right into the nucleus of an atom (opposites attract, right?)? Is it merely the speed of the electron? Some good answers here already. … Continue reading →

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Comment on a Jordan Peterson video about the radical left

Posted on April 22, 2019 by Ted Howard NZ

Dr. Jordan B. Peterson On The Impact Of the Radical Left – YouTube 02:16 “It is easy to understand why people are emotionally drawn to the ideals of socialism (let’s say) or the left; because it draws it’s fundamental motivational … Continue reading →

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Zat – rationality and joy

Posted on April 22, 2019 by Ted Howard NZ

Zat Rana – The Rationalist’s Paradox: How to Not Cheat Yourself Out of Life’s Joys Hi Zat, Align with your general thesis, and it seems to me reasonably clear why we cannot ever rationalize anything completely. If you do the … Continue reading →

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Medium – Mathematical Reality

Posted on April 22, 2019 by Ted Howard NZ

A foundations of logic link to the medium article What is Mathematical Reality? It seems entirely probable to me that reality need not be causal in any hard sense, and it is undeniable that it is a very close approximation … Continue reading →

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Quora – evolution and aging

Posted on April 22, 2019 by Ted Howard NZ

Why hasn’t evolution dealt with the inefficiency of aging? Each of the other answers address some aspect of the issue, and it is far more complex than any of them indicate. Yes, there is an aspect to it that the … Continue reading →

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Foundations of Logic group – markets and risk

Posted on April 22, 2019 by Ted Howard NZ

A link from Foundations of Logic Group – NEWS Deadly Incurable Illness Spreading Across The Globe Infecting Nearly A Million People Just one more of the many examples where market incentives are directly at variance with human survival. It is … Continue reading →

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