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I think there is some common ground between religion and atheism that is worth exploring. – tanny

Our ultimate commonality is that we all exist in the same existence. And I guess, we all want to figure out this existence.

Maybe the ancient sages sensed this “something” but didn’t have scientific language to describe it. And so they described it in…

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@citizenschallengev4 I copy the use of “inteligent”, because i see it to be apropriate.

Why you see repeating a typo appropriate?

I reffered to:

I’m putting “intelligence” in quotes in recognition that what we call intelligence is an extremely local phenomena. It’s a useful concept at human scale when comparing, say, humans and donkeys. Bu…

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I copy the use of “inteligent”, because i see it to be apropriate.

Why you see repeating a typo appropriate?

I reffered to:

I’m putting “intelligence” in quotes in recognition that what we call intelligence is an extremely local phenomena. It’s a useful concept at human scale when comparing, say, humans and donkeys. Bu…

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I sincerely don’t want to ruin “..some of the soundest far reaching first time posts..“-cit so I apologize for interrupting and try to be careful.

“Is “intelligence” like the laws of physics, a universal property of reality which expresses itself in a variety of ways?”-tanny

I think the answer lies within the process of the question. I’d agree to…[Read more]

“…putting all of our energy into imposing that one” -lausten

In any case, the best way to implement an idea would be without imposition. If an idea has to be imposed, then the idea does not fit what it is imposed on.

“I don’t think we are anywhere near smart enough yet to start putting a system on paper that would look anything like a utopia.” -…

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The Ideal state/nation. I think the task of a state is to organize society on a basic level. Born and created out of society, by society, for society, to ensure a level of stability, a framework.

What I would propose for todays humans:
A general imperialistic structured global nation. With full direct democracy on the bottom local level,…[Read more]

“The sovereign-citizen movement…” -Wiki-citizenschallengev4 – sounds more like separatism than fascism. Of course this can later turn into nationalism and fascism. In the “good” old past facism didn’t have to seperate first into its own nation to be nationalistic and turn fascistic. I guess times change?…

Free Will.
I’ll ruin the topic but, free of what?

Will isn’t fully free: Will isn’t “free” of existence it does exist and therefore is bound by it. Will isn’t “free” of causality and therefore is determined.

But I guess the question is more about the understanding of ones Will, its demystification, and some potetial “fear” of it?

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I am not a scientist, but it seems to me that light speed was mesured. Then why this constant and not another one: because it is a reality. Why do we constate that sun rises in east ? because it is a reality. Now, universe obeys laws. Why these laws and not other ones? It is up to an astrophysicist to answer. – morgankane01

Why these laws and not…[Read more]

Can we get population growth down to zero percent? How would we accomplish that without actually killing people? In nature, this is an acceptable way of controlling population growth. In human society, it is “mass murder”. – write4u

Killing isn’t specifically nessesary, sterilisation would do it as well. Of course the enforcment of such a pro…[Read more]

@mrmhead Regarding the “mobile energy” parts. I wonder if there has been any comprehensive studies on the new “Electric Car” push. Sure, at the “local level” the GHG emission of an electric car is 0 compared to the standard combustion engine. But has anyone accounted for how the electricity is generated (coal fired plants?) And transmi…

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“Without a thriving biosphere, there is no future for humans and we are well on the way to the 6th mass extinction” – dj
So what are you going to do about it? – mrmhead

Reducing the impact on the biosphere by reducing greenhouse gas composition in the atmosphere by replacing fosile power plant with non-fosile power plants for the stationary p…[Read more]

Playing with fire when we talk about tipping points and runaway climate change.-djtexas

This means we have to be careful to not get burned, and stay aware of that, then it shouldn’t be a problem to handle fire.

So as I gathered from your intel (thanks for that) the awaited worst case by 2100 would be avarage temperature increase of 5°C. Would…[Read more]

Indeed. Non there less would it be interesting and useful to have some estimation when at least human extinction would occur. As far I know, there is none. This is may be the reason why none concrete actions are taken, its no imminent extinction threat but more of an inconvenience. Immagine how it would be when you’d had a literal deadline, what…[Read more]

@djtexas Climate science says if it’s BAU there will be no life on earth.

Interesting, do you have more information on that? “No life on earth” is quite challenging.

The mind contains both the conscious and subconscious. It too has irrational components. My point is that physical organ can contain irrational parts.-yonkey

Indeed, I interpreted and recognized “mind and heart” in the sence of the poetic duality of rationality an emotion. If mind is in this context not just rationality then I learnd something new…[Read more]

If I may join into this soul discussion.

First of all @yonkey I assume your blog entry is mainly about “how to life”, based on a standpoint around the soul. And for that you had to define what you are meaning with soul in the first plase. So your definition of a soul can be taken directly as it is without it being just poetry?

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@lausten I’d say anyone who thinks you can explain enlightenment with a few quotes is not enlightened

Challenge accepted!😀

But first, why shouldn’t you be able to explain enlightenment with a few quotes? It is not that hard of an explanation.

Enlightenment is the state reached due to uderstanding and knowing. You are enlightend about something o…[Read more]

Sidenote:

@write4u What few people understand is that the brain can only make a “best guess” of the incoming sensory data. Therefore increased knowledge aids in cognition of how things work, but also how things do not work, and the choices (best guesses) of remedial action.

The brilliant irony that also the basis of scientific method resembles thi…[Read more]