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  1. Wisdom comes from knowing in advance whether something expected was ever promised. 2:24 PM Sep 12th from Tweetie
  2. "There is no reason why neurons from the instinctual parts of our brains cannot be linked to our more cognitive-cerebral ones..." (Doidge) 6:31 PM Aug 21st from Tweetie
  3. Why do materialists wish to rid the universe of mind? If we are trying to discover what is, why so strict in denying what we all experience? 5:23 PM Jul 21st from Tweetie
  4. Is the reason for the singular, I-voice in my head so that I can drown out all the others? 6:45 PM Jul 19th from Tweetie
  5. human's unrestrained ability to kill? Otherwise the same criticism would apply to "normal" Darwinianism of animals in general. (p. 9 DF) 6:49 PM Dec 8th, 2008 from web
  6. Is his (Stove's) claim that under strict Darwinian direction "...there would soon be no children, no women and hence, no men..." due to 6:48 PM Dec 8th, 2008 from web
  7. Is it true that "no tribe of humans could possibly exist ... could even raise a second generation..." (Stove) following Darwinianism? 6:40 PM Dec 8th, 2008 from web
  8. Is such a 'thinking machine', whether brain or artificial construct, even possible? 6:01 PM Aug 26th, 2007 from web
  9. David Deutsch talks of a virtual reality machine that responds to an infinite set of variables. 6:01 PM Aug 26th, 2007 from web
  10. Found bookswim.com via lifehacker.com. Couldn't find many philosophy books other than those relating specifically to religion. Too bad. 5:58 AM Aug 23rd, 2007 from Twitterrific
  11. There is simply not enough time in a day to read all I want to read. (Or do all I want to do.) 8:10 PM Aug 22nd, 2007 from Twitterrific
  12. Explanations of 'because' cannot compete against the explanation of 'why.' 9:06 PM Aug 21st, 2007 from Twitterrific
  13. Just because a theory is self-consistent, its explanations may prove it wrong nonetheless. 9:06 PM Aug 21st, 2007 from Twitterrific
  14. Deutsch FoR:"In the absence of an independent explanation for why angels should pretend to be photons, that latter explanation is superior." 9:05 PM Aug 21st, 2007 from web
  15. Learning about optical interference and not understanding the slit experiments with photos (i.e. why interference shows as it does), 7:54 PM Aug 20th, 2007 from Twitterrific
  16. We mislead ourselves by thinking that deduction always trumps observation - especially when the two disagree. 7:24 PM Aug 20th, 2007 from Twitterrific
  17. For Deutsch, this seems to debunk the power of reductionist scientific thinking - i.e. reducing knowledge to purely deductive reasoning. 7:23 PM Aug 20th, 2007 from Twitterrific
  18. Deutsch FoR: most of our particular knowledge about things comes from 'high-level theories' 7:22 PM Aug 20th, 2007 from Twitterrific
  19. re Deutsch FoR - predictive power is something different than explanatory power. 7:18 PM Aug 20th, 2007 from web
  20. re Aquinas on MP, do we limit the concept of substance to physical, contained bodies, or can substance be something else. 4:28 PM Apr 15th, 2007 from web
  • Name Der Philosoph
  • Location SE WI
  • Web http://c.ogi.to/
  • Bio I yearn to understand. We are thinking beings capable of what?
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