Tag Archives: life

Developing a Deeper Understanding of Life

Posted on May 3, 2023 by Ted Howard NZ

Daniel Schmachtenberger – Developing a Deeper Understanding of Life [ 26/April/23 ] While I align with Daniel in many dimensions of the extremely complex issues we have as a species, two things Daniel stated in this interview give me deep … Continue reading →

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Life

Posted on April 20, 2023 by Ted Howard NZ

Life [ 11/February/23 Mariyan Antony posted – Life is finite resources and applications of beautiful wisdom of real factual history of rational philosophy.] It’s much more like:Life is an exploration of infinite unknowns, based on heuristics sorted by multiple levels … Continue reading →

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Is the point of life to spread the human species across the universe and make sure it doesn’t go extinct?

Posted on June 30, 2021 by Ted Howard NZ

Is the point of life to spread the human species across the universe and make sure it doesn’t go extinct? [ 28/April/21 ] As every other answer at time of writing this notes, there does not seem to be a … Continue reading →

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What is the definition of life?

Posted on April 25, 2021 by Ted Howard NZ

What are the general requirements to call an entity a living being? Are there any organisms that don’t meet all the general requirements but are still classified as living? [ 3/April/21 ] This is a fundamental question in biology, and … Continue reading →

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Tom’s Facebook – feelings

Posted on May 31, 2020 by Ted Howard NZ

[ 1/5/20 Tom on Facebook – we are our feelings] For me, that model is too limited. Yes – certainly, our “feelings” are an important part of what we are, and they are deeply complex in ways that my 50 … Continue reading →

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Quora – What is the responsibility of humans in society?

Posted on February 29, 2020 by Ted Howard NZ

Quora – What is the responsibility of humans in society? [ 28/2/20 ] To survive. To create conditions that give the greatest security and longevity possible to all self aware agents, while also delivering the greatest degrees of freedom possible. … Continue reading →

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Quora – Why can’t we bring people back to life?

Posted on January 31, 2020 by Ted Howard NZ

Quora – Why can’t we bring people back to life? [27/1/20] I guess it depends how you define dead. By some definitions we can, but only for limited periods. The colder it is, the longer we have to resuscitate people. … Continue reading →

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Laurie – Horsing around – questions grappling with

Posted on July 29, 2019 by Ted Howard NZ

Horsing Around What question are you grappling with? Hi Laurie, The question that has dominated my thought for over 50 years is: What is required to live a very long time? Peace is obviously part of the answer. Understanding the … Continue reading →

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Artificial Life

Posted on May 31, 2019 by Ted Howard NZ

Link from Foundations of Logic group to Genome article Yep – can now synthesize and insert one of the key components. Have yet to do the whole thing from scratch. It will very probably happen, just hasn’t happened yet. Still … Continue reading →

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Patriarchy

Posted on May 31, 2019 by Ted Howard NZ

A post on Deb’s Facebook page Hi Deb, Agree that where patriarchy exists in and of itself it needs to be demolished and replaced with more open systems. And not everything (or even most things) are the result of patriarchy … Continue reading →

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