What do you believe in?
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It took me longer than I’d like to think of an answer.
Maths.
Maths is good.
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The world is made of magic, it just differentiated into so many forms, that one of them is science and that's what many people believe is all there is.
I feel in the mood to explain more about this:
Similar to european school's history classes tend to be focused on european history (we call that "eurocentrism"), our worldview is focused on humans, i think that's called "anthropocentrism". While humans are important, it's not everything there is. There's also plants and other living beings, and in fact there's many more of them than of us. I try to consider that.
I'm calling the unity of all life "magic", i came up with that and it's supposed to be a play-on-words on the german word "Magen" (stomach) (representing that plants and animals are connected through an important relationship that is food). Also the stomach is the organ most physiologically/spatially central in the human body, in my opinion. So i imagine that everything's in the human is built around that "central" organ that is the stomach. That makes sense as the intake of food is the root of all animal existence, that enables animal's existence in the first place. Thus "everything is created from the stomach outwards", as supportive organs to help the stomach collect and digest food.
This is an interesting take.
I like to think of Science as magic, because it really is.
Ancient peoples played with "Alchemy," and modern chemistry is simply that. They would lose it if they knew we could "grow" diamonds, or that we have created an entirely new element.
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I believe in social democracy, I believe that it is the best political ideology.
It combines a free society with a government provided safety net.
I see communism as being too restrictive, and unregulated capitalism as being way too out of control.
A progressive social democratic country with a strong government seems to me as combining new ideas with a stable foundation.
What Economic structure would you use in your ideal society?
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Morals are objective.
Can you elaborate?
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Free will is an illusion.
Either as Hard determinism (60% confidence in this theory), or as in some form of Quantum randomness (40% confidence in this theory), you cannot just willy nilly pick something. Its just an algorithm, and, possibly, a little bit of randomness, if Quantum randomness is true.
I agree that free will is an illusion, but have decided that because it is true it isn't worth thinking about further.
I don't find the "why" to be interesting, which is interesting because it is like "I" am trying to avoid further reflection on that fact which "I" also have no control over. haha
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Only that which has evidence to support it.
How much n is enough n?
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A good cup of coffee and the universe does not care about existence.
Why does the Universe have an opinion about existence?
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Believing in something seems to imply thinking something to be true without having evidence for it - otherwise it would be knowledge, a justified true belief. So I know a couple things, like that I exist as a conscious being, and have practical empirical knowledge of the rest of the sensory world too.
Believe means to accept as true or real, and does not define the precondition to the belief.
How can you prove that you exist as a conscious being?
How can you prove that your senses can be trusted?
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Myself and Sasquatch.
Only the guy in the Sasquatch suit would say this.
We got 'em. We finally got 'em.
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That my dogs will aways be happy to see me
This is adorable.
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Causing pain is bad.
What if by causing pain one heals a wound?
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Something, don't know what, but all can't be random.
I prefer to believe in randomness because it makes everything that much more mind blowing to think about.
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- Water is wet
- The sky is blue
- Women have secrets
The sky isn't blue.
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Believe means to accept as true or real, and does not define the precondition to the belief.
How can you prove that you exist as a conscious being?
How can you prove that your senses can be trusted?
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I am thinking about whether I exist as a conscious being. Therefore there must be an 'I' to be thinking that.
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I can't prove that my senses can be trusted with 100% certainty to tell me truth - in fact I can prove the opposite with things like optical illusions. However, when interacting with the world that I only know is real through my senses, basing my behaviour on those same senses that let me know the world exists seems reasonable to me. That's what I call practical knowledge, rather than true knowledge.
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If humans are inherently evil, why is evil not the dominant force in the world? One would assume that if everyone were indeed evil, greedy, and out for themselves our existence could only be anarchy.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]Who says it is not the dominant force?
End stage capitalism is pretty close to anarchy and we will see what happens next.After 25 years in healthcare and humanitarian work you get a grim perspective.
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I am thinking about whether I exist as a conscious being. Therefore there must be an 'I' to be thinking that.
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I can't prove that my senses can be trusted with 100% certainty to tell me truth - in fact I can prove the opposite with things like optical illusions. However, when interacting with the world that I only know is real through my senses, basing my behaviour on those same senses that let me know the world exists seems reasonable to me. That's what I call practical knowledge, rather than true knowledge.
How do you define "I"?
In other words you believe what your senses tell you to be real even though you cannot objectively prove your senses to be trustworthy?
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I haven't played any of the Sonic games since Sonic and Knuckles so I am going to have to take your word on all of that. haha
I am partial to how the Joycon is set up myself, but I think it is just because of how much I play it compared to alternate styled consoles.
Sonic and Knuckles special stages are so much better, in my opinion. Maybe I'm just not good at the Lost World special stages on 3DS, but I somehow struggle because they use motion controls ( moving myself and the whole system to move in a 3D environment ). Moving along in a straight line to collect balls is so much easier, in my opinion.
Also, joycons are an alright enough setup, but I personally don't like how small they are. My hands were not made for extended unattached usage of those things.
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Who says it is not the dominant force?
End stage capitalism is pretty close to anarchy and we will see what happens next.After 25 years in healthcare and humanitarian work you get a grim perspective.
If you were correct society as a whole would already exist as true anarchy, therefore humans are not inherently evil, greedy, or out for themselves. We could not coexist in any meaningful way if that were true.
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How do you define "I"?
In other words you believe what your senses tell you to be real even though you cannot objectively prove your senses to be trustworthy?
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'I' is the thing that is thinking it
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I don't 'believe' that my senses are real, but that it's good enough to act as though they are real, regarding the sensory world.
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What is stopping you from having friends?
Myself I guess.
