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Quora – Do humans have agency?
Do humans have agency? [ 9/3/20 ] If the idea of agency has any meaning at all – then yes. And it gets deeply complex, because it only really makes sense if reality works on the basis of probabilities and … Continue reading
Posted in Brain Science, Ideas, Nature, Philosophy, understanding
Tagged agency, complexity, Evolution, freedom, future, knowledge, Morality, nature, Philosophy, understanding
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Quora – What is the best way to learn about the world and absolutely everything in it?
What is the best way to learn about the world and absolutely everything in it? [29/1/20] There was an interesting thing emerged from database theory about 15 years ago: That for a fully loaded processor, the most efficient possible search … Continue reading
Posted in Ideas, Nature, understanding
Tagged complexity, knowledge, learning, understanding
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Quora – How do you feel about climate change?
Quora – How do you feel about climate change? For me, climate change is real, and it is far more than a debate about climate. Sure, the climate has been changing, basically driven by orbital drivers of the amount of … Continue reading
Posted in Nature, Our Future, Technology, understanding
Tagged Climate change, Evolution, future, knowledge, risk mitigation, science, understanding
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Quora – research area to progress
Quora – Which area of scientific research would you like to see progress? One stands out above all others – nano scale manipulation of matter. The mining and manufacture of material at the atomic scale. When we get that, then … Continue reading
Posted in Our Future, Politics, understanding
Tagged Abundance, Communication, complexity, enlightenment, future, knowledge, Philosophy, Politics, Responsibility, science, technology, understanding, values
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Quora – one uniting topic
Quora – What’s that one possible topic that could unite all the subjects, be it science and social science together for a greater meaning? The search for a single uniting topic demonstrates a failure to understand complexity. In complex systems … Continue reading
Posted in understanding
Tagged complexity, Evolution, knowledge, science, understanding
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Laurie – Lifelong learning
Lifelong Learning What are you actively learning about? What not!!! Water, nutrients, soils, people, politics, shearwaters, dotterels, AI, security protocols, xBase programming with SSL protocols and PostGRE SQL, golf, landslides, earthquakes, law, governance, natural justice and jurisprudence, policy development and … Continue reading
Posted in Laurie's blog
Tagged future, knowledge, Laurie's blog, Longevity, understanding
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Metaphysics and Truth – Robert again.
Foundations of Logic – Muhammad asked “Is metaphysics possible?” Robert replied – “Yes, of course” LOL. This explains completely why Robert & I can agree about very little. For me, it seems clear from evidence that metaphysics as it is … Continue reading
Posted in understanding
Tagged complexity, knowledge, Philosophy, truth, understanding
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Truth and binary vs non-binary – again
Suppose theres a statement LP such that: 1) LP = ~True(LP) THEN 2) True(LP) = True(~True(LP)) AND 3) True(LP) = ~True(LP) THEREFOR There is no such statement LP. (QED) The assumption that statements are either true or false assumes simple … Continue reading
Posted in Ideas, understanding
Tagged complexity, Evolution, knowledge, truth, understanding
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Truth? continued
Truth continued Sigurd started a new thread derived from a subset of my original post Hi Sigurd, My argument is not with the truths derived from the acceptance of any set of postulates (ZFC or any others). I quite explicitly … Continue reading
In murder intrinsically bad
Mark Hubey – asked – is murder intrinsically bad In as far as our values all seem to be defined by the differential survival of variants over time, and in as far as that tends to give us a value … Continue reading
