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indeed. how did we realise? did he say? (not completely in touch, sorry if a little annoying. just link if easier)

Short stories by philip k. dick as a different suggestion. Enjoyed reading them very very much.

I was looking for neither of the first two, and yes I am a little bored. Fortunately my posting spree is ending now. It's interesting to consider, and I was hoping somebody might suggest two posters were similar in style...

Anyone read it? If not, will give full impressions once I finish. Looks like a very intelligent book so far... Essentially a literary approach to philosophical ideas and discussions.

As far as I know (not that much), I'm the only member who's come back to life (previous account was coolydudey60, permabanned, http://intpforum.com/member.php?u=3775. *sigh* I was dumb). Do you reckon there might be anyone covertly evading a ban? Don't think IP banning is used immediately, is...

KeyLemon - facial recognition sign-in. Even the free version works great for me. Windows and Mac.

Thanks for the post. I have the good fortune to live very comfortably and I can tell you that one of the things I want to do with my life is help people more in need, in the process extracting a feeling exactly like the quote says. I am more a feeler than the average person here, but I would...

Very true. The quote is referring solely to the case where what you receive in return is gratitude from the other person and an emotional satisfaction for having helped them out.

http://www.focusst.org/forum/attachments/off-topic/29928d1389065502-we-allowed-talk-about-sex-875d1374620718-grom-here-jackie-chan-my-brain-full-fuck-meme-blank-template-lol-wtf.jpg Sorry to be a little insulting with that (couldn't find a more appropriate meme), but at least engage on a...

@Polaris, we're clearly talking symbolic wealth here. @Hadoblabo, you're clearly missing this point. An argument to the contrary must refute/downplay the importance of the emotional/mental "wealth" and satisfaction generated by giving.

Case in point about the weaknesses of the quote : proxy's post. Yet what I am claiming is that it's short-comings are not very significant, I.e. It's largely true and a good quote. I am inviting people to then disagree for an informal debate perhaps, or just to see different perspectives. So...

What is bad about it? Also, perhaps this should have been in the psychology section? I always do this... Side topic: What is a good quote?

I thought that was a nice quote. A little one-sided perhaps, and in places lacking truth, but a good quote nonetheless. Anyone care to disagree or provide a personal opposing perspective?

I am skeptic of your ability to type words correctly :D on a serious note, I would basically agree with what archie said. His approach is constructivist and more useful for practical approaches. On a theoretical basis I would err on the way of saying it as follows: Every person has a...

We can perceive more abstractions than those contained simply in words or their combinations. e.g., the concept of addition is an abstraction (across different numbers one can use), but not one captured by words, but simply referred to by them (the word addition refers to said abstraction but...

84% Sartre/Camus

+1 for the whole post, particularly the bit in bold and As for the problem of finding a rule; the consensus of the established core members (I think quite a clear group)...

Brian. Ummm, well if you're going to bother devoiding life of inherent meaning then it probably follows you're a nihilist of sorts, in which case you can't really ask "what meaning should I give life?"; it's just "what meaning might I as well give life?". Meh, it's all a bit shit really, who...

I find the distinction people make between the two to be something of a false dichotomy. If for a moment we ignore quantum mechanics and relativity and assume that an absolute ordering of all events exists (contrary to relativity) with absolute causal relationship between any event and all...

Re: Latest Forum Outage ty BAP. btw, how did you contact him? did you always have his details or are they available somewhere?

Re: Latest Forum Outage I think a nice shiny donator's badge is all that is necessary...

Re: Latest Forum Outage I was expecting archie to chime in with some good feedback :)

Re: Latest Forum Outage well we've already got some ideas down. I assumed one or two of the mods had the ability to contact him which they would have done. If we can't get through to him then clearly the wisest (the only) plan of action is to leave things as they are for now, and have some...

Re: Latest Forum Outage I was just thinking we get in contact with Ragnar and renew the purchase of the same domain ourselves... also, as far as payment goes, stability is key, and I think 5-10 core members could commit to supporting the place for periods of time (1-2 dollars a month for at...

Re: Latest Forum Outage I guess it all depends what the cost is. Edit: looks to be of the order of 100-200 (max) dollars a year... perfectly manageable from within the forum, don't you think? edit 2: as an example, hosting for 9 dollars a month with unlimited storage and bandwidth (there is...

Re: Latest Forum Outage gibberish edited out; There are two issues; Finding someone to handle the money; Finding someone to take care of the technical stuff (this second part shouldn't be hard here :D)

Re: Latest Forum Outage I was wondering that... I looked it up, the domain name needs to be renewed with the registrar, I wouldn't be surprised if it just happens automatically as part of the subscription ragnar has set up.

Re: Latest Forum Outage Yeah it would probably be a good idea to take the burden off ragnar, he's been handling it for such a long time and doesn't even use this place any more (as far as I can see). If enough members could agree to a monthly subscription fee (which I don't imagine is even very...

Well, you could say there isn't one. But we could create a scale to rank questions (a subjective one). The only case this would fail would be if we could have arbitrarily hard questions. Disallowing questions that couldn't be answered before the heat death of the universe would hence be a way of...

there's an error in your logic.... if A already requires B to be answered ("what is the hardest question other than this one?"), then C=A+B=A, so A is still the hardest Q.

You could say that the answer is "what is the hardest question?", but then you've just answered it, i.e. it was easy to answer, i.e. it was the wrong answer, because there are questions which are obviously much harder to answer.

So much emphasis on creativity and problem solving nowadays, sheesh. Well I'll tell you a more interesting thing to do for a change. On a completely blank slate: come up with a creative problem. They needn't be original; just creative from your perspective. Now I would have interpreted that as a...

Apologies, logic error. The answer to "what is the hardest question?" is: "what is the hardest question other than this?".

Have you ever taken a cognitive function test?

*sigh* take a moment to reflect, and realize how wrong you are. Take a moment to reflect, and think about a world in which everybody, including Wittgenstein, started saying that 150 years ago... And that is an entirely different topic to our existence being vain/meaningless.

Actually, we clearly have a fault in our logic in answering what the hardest question is (as we've answered it, whereas there are other questions we can't answer). What we have answered though is: "what is the hardest question other than this one?". Funny how chopping the end off and saying...

I think it's got to be "what is the hardest question?". It is clearly answerable, yet we cannot find this answer until we have answered all other answerable questions and acquired some sort of omniscience...

"Oh look, somebody else has thought about it before, ok, let's just switch our brains off and not ever discuss it again."

Off topic: I remember the guy who got banned for posting shit all the time, including memes (DeadonDreaming), he was good fun. Not that that's what you're doing, just random memory. The reason you got that reaction is that you didn't start an interesting discussion, just linked to stuff people...

Hit my head with hammer, now is bleeding... Is partial retard o.k.? My head hirts...

I would be inclined to disagree. Do we live in a matrix? Then again, an unanswerable question isn't hard in some sense, so your approach is probably the more reasonable one.

:confused: :facepalm: *sigh*... Or don't, because it's a shit idea. In the rare cases where language fails to provide adequate communication, there is interesting stuff to talk about. But when not, you just use it clearly. New thread idea perhaps?

Would it be some intractable maths problem? An answerable riddle of the sort: "Is this question unanswerable?". Some issue of philosophical/personal importance which can only be answered subjectively (is there a god?). Some question it's hard to accept the answer to? What is a "hardest"...

no comments on the third piece anyone? Anyone interested in the fourth (the minor one)?

Realized it must be tiresome for people to search through all the crap on my other thread to find the music, so re-posting just the music here. Please keep posting to a minimum and address any comments to http://intpforum.com/showthread.php?t=16023. Thanks forum for pushing me along with all my...

https://soundcloud.com/coolydudey60/piece-3 !!

After what has been something of an editing marathon of a not so great performance, I have a version I deem satisfactory I should be able to upload by tomorrow. I will tweak a couple more things and fiddle with the sound before I upload.

l.o.l. ok I'll give you that that is very original. If the entire population of schoolkids was hyperactive competitive young boys then maybe it could have a chance of working. Even then, there goes any chance of preparing people for their boring adult life. Work has to be done. Other than...

sonar x3 with kontakt 5 (vintage D for now). For now just have fiddled with the settings of the piano and added a little reverb

Anyone here got tips to achieve a richer, fuller piano sound from a software piano? Like when you smash one of the bass keys with the pedal down and you get that deep, reverberating, satisfying tone? What I have is good but not quite there.