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

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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“One of the simplest or essential parts or principles of which anything consists, or upon which the constitution or fundamental powers of anything are based.” – https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/element

The idea of elemets seems to be very old, I don’t realy know how old but I guess it belongs to the earliest attempts of humans to understand the…[Read more]

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

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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]

@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]

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]

@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]

@write4u It’s a fascinating talk, trust me.

Indeed, this video is a great summary to the basic mechanics of perception.

My question from above is about the point this mechanism does work in a way it isn’t fully reliable anymore. Not only restrictet to sensory perception and its immediate “first level” processing but also the later overall c…[Read more]

If a person beliefs so strongly in anyhing that it dismisses everything contradictory in order to secure their own belief in which their mental/psychological bedrock is interwoven to, and that to an extend that everithing…[Read more]

article above – “… Good question. We don’t know.”

Something we don’t know yet is something we can learn.

But, doesn’t have the value of maximum effect-transport-velocity = lightspeed a background behind it, something that causes it to be the value we know?

We can’t say that spacetime exists in all the universe as we know it here. So unless you are only referring to light moving here in this solar system and area, you cannot talk about a speed for light. No one has gone out to the far universe to experience light moving there. We do not even know that time as we know it here exists out there! – d…

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We can’t say that spacetime exists in all the universe as we know it here. So unless you are only referring to light moving here in this solar system and area, you cannot talk about a speed for light. No one has gone out to the far universe to experience light moving there. We do not even know that time as we know it here exists out there! – d…

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an imaginary place or state in which everything is perfect

https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/american_english/utopia

A utopia is an imaginary community or society that possesses highly desirable or nearly perfect qualities for its citizens.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utopia

This ideal,
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The speed of light is the velocity everything travels at through spacetime. Splited between space and time if you increase speed through space you reduce speed through time and vice versa.

But why 299’792’458 m/s and not less or more? I’m not asking about the formula behind it. What I ask is why has…[Read more]

“Treat others how you want to be treated”
This is seen as the golden rule, and it is most of the time. -morgan

I think this is a adequate rule of the thumb, like you shown can it be vague. The more precise of an action the ethic has to describe/guide the more difficulty it gets to define it. Thats why I prefer to leave the ethical definition in a…[Read more]

Yes but who does the recycling? -write4u

In the case of CO2, the waste products of our industrial fuels, does alter the atmospheric composition – climate change back 2.7 billion years ago -write4u

You’re missing the point that this CO2 is not “normal” at all. Sequestered CO2 (oil, coal) was formed 2.7 billion years from excess CO2, deep in the…

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Yes, but unlike other natural consumers, human waste is not returned to the earth as potential fertilizer for new consumption, i.e. renewable resource.-write4u

Not on its own, it has to be recycled.

Human waste is often is toxic and harmful to the environment. Example; extracting sequestered CO2 from the earth and sowing it the atmosphere.-w

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Extra-dimensional. -mrmhead

@mrmhead You mean like we and our environment exist in more dimensions than we can perceive and the UFOs are phenomena occurring from these extra dimension(s)? Interesting thing. How can we describe, understand, grasp dimensions we are not aware of because of… why are we actual not aware of these extra dimensions?

Within the limitations of free will, yes, you can change. Acceptance is a good thing, but if slaves accepted their fate, we wouldn’t have the democracies we now have.-laust

The part to not having any choise is just for theoretical completeness. In practical real life there is always a choise. Obviously only as long one hase an according capable d…[Read more]

Excuse me, I transposed you and sabolina, guess sometimes you both come across the same way. – Citizen

@citizenschallengev3 Figured it. No problem.

From 345891 -“What do you think “waste” isn’t “consumption”?   Please explain?”

Didirus my friend, do you understand what this person is raging about here when the Amazon point is clearly made o…

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I’m thinking possibly a Hindi speaker or possibly a Spanish speaker. / Now I am thinking Indian (India).-mriana

In order I not posing as someone from another culture / country.
I’m from central europe, german speaking.

I just had a feeling there was a language barrier happening.-m

German is my mothertounge, and enghlish I did learn r…[Read more]

If everything that happens is something you could just live with, then there is no basis for determining how to act. -lausten

The constant that you live / exist next to and with everything should stand. How you live I think is your decision. And yes, there is no proper higher decision-making basis in the universal sense about what desicion to…[Read more]

“@didirius        here is an excellent example of the waste capitalism generates”-citizen

@citizenschallengev3 #345891 humbly harrumph. Do you adress me? #345879 wasn’t from me.

Capitalism operates/feeds on greed, which leads to climate change. The worse the greed, the worse the climate changes. -mriana

To stop the deep problem within once and…[Read more]

“Not the way I understood it as written and it doesn’t answer the altruism question….” – mriana

Let me clarify:

• “Apropriate preventive measures…” with this i meant some actions that by law would have been applied anyway. Like imprisonment, life imprisonment, death sentence. Anything that would prevent the crime from happening a…

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“Not the way I understood it as written and it doesn’t answer the altruism question….” – mriana

Let me clarify:

• “Apropriate preventive measures…” with this i meant some actions that by law would have been applied anyway. Like imprisonment, life imprisonment, death sentence. Anything that would prevent the crime from happening a…

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You described the process of becoming aware of your emotions, understanding them, channeling them instead of letting them control you. – lausten

Yes, and by doing that they don’t have an influence on you anymore. What leads to the practically/technically disappearance of sad emotions until your awareness in that regard fades away. – I made a…[Read more]

there is no tackling climate change without tackling capitalism. … a system relying on consumerism, never ending and exponential in nature.

Yes, changing/adjust the current system of handling resources is a reasonable and promising possibility, not just to stop the current climate change but to prevent similar and related problems in the future.…[Read more]

@citizenschallengev3 I’m trying to wrap my head around it, but I’m having trouble with what your emotions are “overwritten” with. Can you explain it any better?

In addition to owerwriting you could add displacing – to be more accurate.

What is overwriting your emotions?

Awareness would be my best straight guess.

Let’s describe it this way, fo…[Read more]

Maybe, but wouldn’t you want such a person off the street so that he doesn’t do it again to someone else or do you have no altruism at all?

This is includet and ment by my second point below: “Apropriate preventive measures … ”

So you believe in fate?

I don’t think facing reality as it is, has something to do with fat…[Read more]

Maybe, but wouldn’t you want such a person off the street so that he doesn’t do it again to someone else or do you have no altruism at all?

This is includet and ment by my second point below: “Apropriate preventive measures … ”

So you believe in fate?

I don’t think facing reality as it is, has something to do with fate. Regarding the act…[Read more]

The ones i can think of, regard only to specific events like rising of sea level for example, what in itself isn’t reason for extinction.

I think conditions will get worse before any changes we might undertake will have any affect. (or is it effect, in this case?) We need to improve the infrastructure to handle the coming changes.

Agreed, and i indeed missed the point of improve/adapt the infrastrucure in order to endure and lengthen the range of options.

Is the Controlled Shrinking of Economies a Better Bet to Slow Climate Change Than Unproven Technologies?

In order to avoid the climate change, what i presume is the intention. I see three basic ideal steps about what to to.

• Stopping inrease in emission of man-made Greenhouse gas in earth’s atmosphere
• Stopping emission of man-made Greenhouse…

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OK, so let’s say a Jeffrey Dahmer was in your neighbourhood and nabbed your son, drugged him, and killed him. Wouldn’t you want him punished as far as the law will allow you to punish him, up to and including life in prison or (and I don’t like this option) the death penalty?

Punishement for punishement sake wouldn’t restor my son back to live…[Read more]

I don’t know if you mean you are fond of emotions, or fond of not having emotions?

fond of the seperation – tendency to not having emotions

About that not having emotion, is that something like the Star Trek’s character Spock?

Hmm… surppressing emotions until they are seemingely dissapeared but having to keep up the sur…[Read more]

So you think murdering another human being is alright?

My opinion is totally neutral, alright has a “right-isch” ring to it so i would use another term. But in principal yes im not against it nor for it, from a universal perspective, which i like to use as blank standart. However if it does concern my personal interest then i consider to take…[Read more]