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Depends on what you mean by cold.

From a certain point of view, one can read this stuff in relativity (given Lorentz's way of looking at things), to mean that the same photon that gets from the Sun to the Earth in 8 minutes (from our point of view here on Earth) take 0 time from the photon's point of view. In other words...

This charity does what it purports to do, is staffed by volunteers, and is generally a cause for good in the world. https://www.mercyships.org/ships/africa-mercy/

I count among my friends a couple of researchers working on cancers. There is no conspiracy. Cancer, like a great many other medical issues, is tough to beat.

Curiosity, compassion, honesty, integrity, kindness, equipoise.

I don't know that this is true. But I digress. Go into writing. Write about actors who portray politicians.

Were I so lucky to be in that position, I undoubtedly would do something hedonistic and waste the advantages offered. That said, with the hindsight of being in my late 40s, having been married for 25 years, having had two kids (who are now adults--neither of whom attended high school but are...

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How often are you willing to eat dessert before dinner?

There are circumstances in my life, and in the lives of my family members, that drive my work week. It is unfortunate.

This post deserves a thumbs up. It's one to point a finger at.

Given the relative dearth of actual, empirical examples of AI, we can't really do much other than speculate. I don't think it's unreasonable to assume that anything we've dreamed up so far about an AI being's motives could be entirely in error.

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Immediately I would do whatever needs to be done and separate how I feel about the verbal abuse from the task that required accomplishing. Ultimately, I can't really advise about the other topic (whether to stay at the hospital or in the field). I was a phlebotomist for three years (I was...

While I agree that the word "stupid" can be used in a way that is emotionally charged, I don't think it has to be. A) "I was stupid to think he'd like me." B) Compared to my cat, my fish is stupid. C) My calculator doesn't actually know that the square root of 9 is 3, it can't, it's stupid, it...

I would like to like to dance. I would like to be good at dancing. Alas, I haven't the time to devote to it, and, without the practice, I'm pretty terrible at it.

Back in 1990 or so a friend of mine introduced me to a lot of Jung's work (both Jung's own writing and writings by others on Jungian themes). I dedicated about 10 years to the study of that stuff. I am still heavily influenced by it and, whenever a dream sort of screams signals to me (whether my...

Methodically. I think your instructor is asking for more than is realistic to expect from the students. That said, if I were a student, I'd just try my best. Yes. Shakespeare's influence was/is tremendous. Depends upon the reader. Different readers will be affected differently, and more or less...

It has happened to me. But, it seems like the older I've gotten, the less often it happens.

How old is she?

From the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy's intro "In the modern world, human beings come to derive their very sense of self from the opinion of others, a fact which Rousseau sees as corrosive of freedom and destructive of individual authenticity. " Prior to radio, massive urbanization...

About 25% of all the adults on the planet are illiterate. That might account for some of the problem.

So, who hurt you and what did they do?

You could always decide to take it on as a challenge. Study others. See which of the schmoozers seem to be most highly regarded by the others. Emulate those who are best at it, and try to become better at it than them. I mean, if you turn it into a contest, it might give you an incentive.

Because Goku asked me to elaborate: I teach at one large public university in Michigan (I rotate between biomedical ethics, professional ethics, race and gender issues, and philosophy of science, mostly). I teach at one large private university in Indiana (I teach mostly math courses in their...

For about 15 years I was self-employed as a tutor. I mostly tutored mathematics, but also physics, chemistry, English, and a few other subjects. Most of my clients were students at a private high school and their parents were generally quite wealthy. As such, my income was good. That market...

If I walk into a room and say "It seems cold in here to me," and, in fact, it does seem cold in the room to me, then, yeah, that's true. And, someone else could walk in and say "It seems warm in here to me," and that person is also right. If I walk into a room and say "It's 15 degrees Celsius...

True. Or not.

We are all more-or-less introverted, more-or-less thinking oriented, more-or-less sensate, etc., etc. And, all of us can develop the functions that, according to our types, are inherently underdeveloped. It's not that types don't matter, but it is true that they don't necessarily constrain us...

Watch the movie Catch Me If You Can for an example.

It's a start.

Sarah Hrdy does a wonderful job exploring this (and a tremendous number of other issues) in her book Mother Nature: Maternal Instincts and How They Shape the Human Species: Sarah Hrdy: 9780345408938: Amazon.com...

Either materialism has an irresolvable dualism at its foundation or it does not. I don't know whether it does or does not.

Speaking of using philosophy to make outrageous analogies... Didn't Jesus say something like "I am the light"? And, he also has unresolved duality: human and divine. (And, perhaps, also: alive and dead, depending upon your flavor of Christianity.)

Doesn't this just push the cosmological argument back another step? Suppose there is this endlessly looping multiversal creation/destruction cycle. What started it? And, if there was a start, wasn't that the meta-big-bang?

This is, perhaps, why I am a philosopher who dabbles in science and not a scientist who dabbles in philosophy. I admire and appreciate physics, but, my true love is metaphysics. Metaphysics: willing to give up precision for scope. Physics: willing to give up scope for precision. Like I said, I...

See the last section on this page: https://classes.lt.unt.edu/Summer_MA_2013/CECS_5420_080/jdp0069/assign2/levels.html The description there of synoptical reading does justice to, I think, a fairly high level of "making connections."

I agree.

When I was a kid working on my MA in philosophy, I decided I wanted to graduate via a thesis option (I changed my mind later). While so engaged, I thought it would be fun to attempt to grapple with the difference(s) between everything, reality and the universe. I had been deeply influenced by...

I'm an INTP parent. My kids are now 24 and 19 and pleasantly had an unschooling experience. My older son is a poet, my younger son is a musician. Of course, I'm a philosopher and my wife is an artist, so, what could one expect? Both boys were schooled in the public schools until 3rd grade and...

For Lent this year, I'm thinking about giving up integers.

Looks more like avoidance, or an unwillingness to accept the responsibilities of adulthood than indecisiveness. That said, indecisiveness is a problem for INTPs, so, yeah, I'm going to guess a lot of us will admit to having trouble with it.

I would imagine that a great many people who would be described as "people pleasers" are people who have had their emotional and physical boundaries manipulated, especially by their parents when they were young. Consider the alcoholic who, through negligence and irresponsibility, ends up having...

Um. Really? I mean. Really? This isn't complicated, is it?

It seems to me (it may not be true, I admit) that spacetime, mass, energy and gravity are all bundled together in some way such that they cannot be unraveled. We can talk about primes and composites separately, we can talk about rational and irrational numbers separately, we can talk about...

Perhaps, though, T never reaches 0 K. I understand, for instance, the idea of the limit, in calculus. I get that we can "sum to infinity" and notice that this or that mathematical series, when such a sum is carried out (in theory) is equal to some specific number. I get it. I find continued...

Solution: double major in any two of mathematics, statistics, economics, chemical engineering.

Yeah, but, what is infinity? Can I eat it? Does it have a smell?

Well, I'm not a bot (I think), but this sure was a fun thread.

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