Recent content by Eh

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    Future of Fire: What's In Store?

    Can you use the argument that without the invention of fire, none of the other great technologies would have been possible? There would be no future without fire in the first place. If not, I don't know how to make the case, at least not in the developed world. Electricity seems to be the...
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    Are there 'things' humans can't not know?

    How am I using it in a different manner?
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    Are there 'things' humans can't not know?

    Are there 'things' humans can't not know? Yes, it's called sense data.
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    What Does Nothingness Really Mean?

    It's just a concept you get when people think irrationally and about non-existence at the same time. It probably started when people first started wondering what it's like to be dead. IOW, what is it like to experience non experience? It's nonsense, but an unavoidable mistake the brain seems to...
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    Undergrad Is the Singularity Still Present in Our Universe?

    It does? I think you might want to rethink that one.
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    What Happens When You Have Eternal Life?

    Any kind of eternal life would end up as perpetual bordem. Just remember how easy it is to hate a certain delicious food if you eat too much of it.
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    Do you guys believe in metaphysics?

    Belief in God is metaphysics. Belief in the existence of an outside world is metaphysics. The list goes on. Are you asking if posters here hold any metaphysical beliefs at all?
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    The Big Bang and the Creator's Soup

    Let's discuss science instead of magic. What you call "matter" is mostly empty space anyway. Why is a contracting universe so absurd to you?
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    Graduate Many minds : interpretations of QM

    What exactly was the many minds interpretation about, anyway?
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    How Did Islamic Scholars Influence Science and Math?

    It just looks an awful lot like the usual religious post and run topics we're all familiar with. Maybe I'm just more pessimistic than others.
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    How Did Islamic Scholars Influence Science and Math?

    Does it matter? It was a valid question, and I'm not sure what the aim of posting that was.
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    How Did Islamic Scholars Influence Science and Math?

    Who the hell cares?
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    Undergrad The Universe is expanding Right?

    Light from galaxies would be blue shifted in a contracting universe, I believe.
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    Metaphysics and something from nothing

    But the negative isn't being used in that proper context you posted. Here we have the reification of nothing. As per the example you provided (What's happening" and I tell them, "Nothing), its clear that words have a proper use in this language. Nothingness is a reification of the negative here...
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    Domain Ownership: What Companies Need To Know

    Anyone else remember the good old days when Network Solutions had a virtual monopoly on domain names?