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rationallyspeaking.blogspot.com | ||
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www.exurbe.com
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| | | | | [AI summary] The discussion centers around a mosaic from Pompeii, likely depicting Plato's Academy, with a focus on a mysterious object in a box. The object is speculated to be a celestial sphere or sundial, possibly connected to philosophical debates. The conversation touches on ancient skepticism, the role of science in providing certainty, and the historical context of philosophical schools like Epicureanism and Stoicism. The mosaic's artistic elements, such as the celestial sphere and the gathering of philosophers, are analyzed for their symbolic and educational significance. The dialogue also explores the intersection of ancient philosophy and modern scientific methods, emphasizing the pursuit of truth and knowledge. | |
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selfawarepatterns.com
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| | | | | Noam Chomsky published an essay on his web site a few years ago: Science, Mind, and Limits of Understanding. Chomsky's thesis is that there are areas of reality that science is simply incapable of understanding. He uses as his principle example, the case of Isaac Newton's understanding of gravity. Chomsky acknowledges that this is a... | |
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whyevolutionistrue.com
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| | | | | I'm getting tired of writing about free will, as what I'm really interested in is determinism of the physics sort, and, as far as we know, determinism is true except in the realm of quantum mechanics-where it may still be true, but probably not. So let me lump quantum mechanics and other physical laws together... | |
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qualiacomputing.com
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| | | Wireheads are beings who have changed their reward architecture in order tobe happy all the time. Unfortunately few people are making a serious effort to steel man the case for wireheading.The concept of wireheading tends to bea conversation stopper, and is frequently used as a reductio-ad-absurdum forvalence utilitarianism. Hedonism is a low-status philosophy at the... | ||
