The conscious mind is an error.
Fun things are fun.
>>22,>>23 Atoms have individuality, sub-atomic particles do not. Space is a hologram, the information etched on its surface. Information is a probability vector, information is energy, energy is the power to change, each change irreversibly progresses time.
>>25 Conciousness is an illusion, you cannot bite your own teeth.
The past inside the present.
Computability theory includes the closely related concept of Turing equivalence.
The observer continually tries to improve the predictability and compressibility of their observations.
Paternalism is all Evil, and all evil is paternalism.
The unix time stamp is a way to track time as a running total of seconds.
>>32
Actually MODD made the Unix timestamps be both unique and psuedorandom so they do not actually denote the creation time of a thread.
>>33 Thread IDs are not the same thing as UNIX timestamps.
>>33 Thread IDs are not the same thing as UNIX timestamps.
Double posts are the sign of a new-bee.
Sage hails the end of one era and the beginning of another.
Hage sails to the end of one era and the beginning of another.
Hail sages!
It's the apocalypse!
man is a mere machine
a fortuitous conjunction of atoms
materialism is derived from indo-european language
Philosophy makes me want to kill myself
>>44 Entropy is the Greek word for the things we lost in the fire.
Or put differently, entropy is the information that is unrecoverably altered after it has been acted upon. Or put yet another way, the energy that will be lost like tears in rain.
Philosophy is not true, only useful.
breathing is a manual function
>>46 Philosophy literally translates to the love for truth.
How can something built on truth be not true?
>>52 If a computer does not compute in the general case, why is it called a computer?
>>53
I never said a computer does not compute in the general case. I am saying that, in the general case, the etymology of a word used as a name for a thing does not absolutely determine characteristics about the thing.
>>56
The philosophers of ancient Greece actually disapproved of sophistry far before we did.
Philosophy is not necessarily composed of truth; it seems that science, "knowledge", serves as a better term for that idea.
Reality is a hallucination.
>>60 I humbly submit that your perception of reality is a hallucination. (My favourite nation btw.)
Plato likened the perception of reality to shadows on a cave wall. Apparently he didn't realize that it was the fire behind him that was the reason his buttocks were burning.
Reality itself, by definition, is not a hallucination, but many believe it cannot be perceived directly, but only through the filter of our unreliable senses, which calls all your knowledge about reality into question. Others believe that it is the believe that reality cannot be experienced directly that blinds us, for even with our imperfect senses, our measurements reflect real effects and artefacts.
In any case, however, it cannot, in principle, be proven that the reality, as we know it, even if we were to know it perfectly (which is impossible for other reasons), is not a simulation.
Unholy is Holy.
Anyone can appear wise.
Simply state an obvious contradictio in se as if it meant something.
Big is small.
More is less.
Reality is a dream.
Fun with semantics, but it is not philosophy.
You are lovely.
so dumb is wise and wise is dumb
some reversed are meanings
but do reversed have any reverse even when they are meanings
There is a question for every answer, but not every question has an answer.
>>63
"More is less" can actually be true if "more" is applied to one thing and "less" is applied to its mutually incompatible opposite (e.g. More matter is less empty space).
Anything can be true if you just redefine all the words. Including that sentence (whoa).
The only eternal truths are impossibilities.
To comprehend is to simplify.
There is an objective reality, but it is inaccessible to us, as in attempting to perceive it we distort it.
We must have faith in the existence of an objective reality, for the ramifications of it not existing are too frightening.
>>72 You forget that we, too, are part of this objective reality. It cannot not be accessible to us, otherwise we would not inevitable distort it.
We don't need faith in this objective reality; there is no way it could not exist.
All that can be said can be said clearly; whereof one cannot speak thereof one must be silent. --Wittgenstein