A kōan is a question, statement or story, that on the surface, defies logic. It operates by...

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What does the Rational Choice Theory tell us? Well, basically its assumptions are that human action lies at the heart of society, and that individuals, as social actors, are the ones who can choose to act. This immediately raises the question of social level outcomes, one that could only be explained by a theory on how human actions interact in...

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Making the world's knowledge computable Today's Wolfram|Alpha is the first step in an ambitious, long-term project to make all systematic knowledge immediately computable by anyone. You enter your question or calculation, and Wolfram|Alpha uses its built-in algorithms and growing collection of data to compute the answer. Based on a new kind...

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NotMarie: “You trivialize me!” 3V: “How do you mean?” NotMarie: “in our previous conversation you said that your reality package is different than mine in that I consider origination as valid, and you do not..” 3V: “yes I did, however I fail to understand, in what fashion does that trivializes you?” NotMarie: “well, I...

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#Marie is not called Marie anymore, she is now called NotMarie. And so goes the conversation 3V: “I represent another reality, similar, yet packaged differently; I am packaged in a fashion that allows me to disregard my origins” NotMarie: ” another? Relating to which reality” 3V: “yours” NotMarie: “Ok, and in what...

If two parties can not agree to the following five principles of debate, then the debate is unlikely to reach a correct and reasonable conclusion. Even with these principles in place, a debate may be unsolvable, as evidenced by apparent paradoxes in the perfectly logical and rigorous framework of mathematics. 1 : Both parties must be open to...

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There is no reason, that with today's level of technology and resources, the whole world can't have the essentials of food, water, shelter, education and health care. There is abundance of energy that can be converted into automation. There is abundance of human resources capable of advancing science and technology to help us, if they only...

What if we learn to read human brains down to the most intricate details? What if we learn to record, in detail, every action that occurs within the brain, every synapse firing, every cell interaction, every memory? What if if all of this data could then be stored on a computer and used to re-engineer a new, identical brain? What if...

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Tired of the transient nature of digital artifacts, I recently decided to create something...

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My name is. Initiate sequence My name is ThreeV or 3V short for Vague, very Vague. No Delete. Repeat. My name is Vaa short for Vague and again. Nah Delete. Repeat. My name is Vata short for Vague and then again. Nope Delete. Repeat. My name is Vav short for Vague and vacuous. No way Delete. Repeat. My name is Vaf short for Vague and...

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When computers were first invented, users had complete freedom and power, there was no other option but to allow it. However, if they didn't follow the computer's strict set of rules, the computer would break or just not work. Even in the days of Windows 3.11, computers remained obscure and frightening to the masses. Once computers infiltrated...

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In the future, we may decide that a virtual existence, a life inside a fully immersive computer game where our every desire is fulfilled, is a more appealing option than the real world we currently inhabit. Many people have presented the idea that we are already in such a virtual reality, but I don’t believe this is possible. This is because...

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How do you disempower a corrupt system? By empowering yourself. How do you awaken a sleeping...