"Life should be a construction of doubts."Antónia de Sousa, Dialogues with Agostinho da Silva
In Homer's Iliad, Aquiles tells that the Gods are jealous of humans' mortality, that immortality is a incommensurable burden for them.
On second thought, maybe we're jealous of the Gods for it's irresponsible puppeteering.
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August 22, 1916
I have given orders to my death units to exterminate without mercy or pity men, women and children belonging to the Polish speaking race. It is only in this manner that we can acquire the vital territory which we need. After all, who remembers today the extermination of the Armenians?
-Adolf Hitler
If Hitler had succeeded...
A Boltzmann brain is a hypothesized self-aware entity which arises due to random fluctuations out of some future state of chaos. The idea is named for physicist Ludwig Boltzmann, who had advanced an idea that the known universe arose as a random fluctuation, similar to process through which Boltzmann brains might arise.
Boltzmann brains are...
Dealing with Paradoxes #1
A strange thought occurred to me during my chemical engineering class, and it has something to do with predicting - with certainty - one's own future, and solving the metaphorical Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle application problem.
Suppose you have a hypothetical machine that predicts the future and conveys...
Ever hear of the ol' saying, "you can't set foot in the same river twice"? Well, the saying is indeed true; after all, you, and the river, change the instant after you pull your foot back out. Atoms have replaced themselves within both you and the water, along with the fact that the water you initially penetrated is now farther off...
In the US much talk can be heard about the Baby Boomer's beginning to collect S.S.
The ideal is that all of us retire from whatever it is we do and begin to live comfortable, interesting and rewarding years away from the 9 to 5. For many this may be far from reality. To think of living in today's world on S.S. alone is a joke to keep it light....
Ah yes, the soul. One of the most difficult aspects of the human being to be defined, and thus confined, into wording understandable by even the most prodigious scientists and philosophers. And yet, millions of people firmly believe in its existence, though there has been little proof in recorded history of empirical evidence suggesting its...
These words are breath on a cold morning drawn through the throat of the blood-gilled trout—
the belly becomes white, becomes the belly of a cloud front tumbling over snow capped
mountains.
It doesn’t matter the hows or whys
rather that there is nothing else at this moment & everything else from now on.
The sun learns...
This particular post doesn't have anything to do with philosophies or sciences, I just had a question for you all...
If you are really stressed out, what do you do? Do lash out or calm down? Do you do anything at all?
At the first look of spacecollective I was mesmerized and said to myself: "I want to be a part of this"
I still look at the videos, ideas and projects like a child discovering a brand the new world full of possibities.
I'm felling the future today.
All of you inspire me!
It is a really good feeling to be part of a project with is neophil!
In Germany, where i life, a huge amount of poeple is feared by the ongoing technical improvment. They would love to be back in the "good old days", but i am diffenrent.
I hope i can find enough time to partitipate here, wanna learn and talk to poeple with are open...