Recent content by mikeee

what about motivation? humans are motivated, but machines aren't. So now we need to explain and come up with some process for motivation.

I guess it depends on your definition of intelligence. It is amazing how complex humans are. At the moment, cognitive science is having a hard time explaining basic processes such as, categorization. To explain categorization, we need to come up with an explanation of what a concept is. I...

your making excuses why your tutoring job isn't going so well. When really, you're probably just not ready to tutor.

your in serious denial!

yep, thanks for your reply

Need help! Ok, I'm having problems with the following question: A container is filled with an unknown gas. To heat 1 kg of the gas by one degree under the constant pressure one needs 907.8 J, while the same increase of temperature of the gas when the colume is kept constant, needs 648.4 J...

I don't really think this is a philosophy question, but what do you guys think of Noam Chomsky? His ideas on the U.S and such... I recently started to listen to a lot of his lectures on tape and I find them really interesting. I just wanted to know if any of you guys listen to him and if...

the purpose of life? to live...to exist... as simple as that sounds, scientifically, i think that's all there is to it...

The definiton that is currently in the dictionary for god is... "a being or object believed to have more than natural attributes and powers and to require human worship" and "the Being perfect in power, wisdom, and goodness who is worshiped as creator and ruler of the universe" I...

Without imagination, you are unable to formulate anything new. Without knowledge, you are unable to make full use of your imagination.

Pace, let's say the authorities caught those resposible for the russian school tragedy... would it not be justice for those involved to be given the death penalty? I bet you they would prefer this punishment as opposed to being locked up all their lives and most likely being murdered in jail...

the death penalty should be used only if somebody is unable to be rehabilitated or if their crime was extremely horrific. Some people really do deserve to die. I am not sure of the statistics of how effective it is as a detterent, but I would think that it would be, which may save many...

I believe good is descriptive of what causes happiness or satisfaction for an individual. What is considered "good" differentiates with people. Good is the preferable outcome or state of something which in turn causes the most satisfaction.

Do you think that given enough time we will one day have the knowledge and technology to become God-like?

Isn't it a natural instinct for us to live? I think that suicide in most cases wrong and is part of some mental problem (other then depression) excluding people suffering of disease and such that are in never ending agony and are destined to die anyways.