The Philosophy Discussion Forum

Get your kicks on route 66.
Take your medical chances in the chancery.

Question to AI:
What is the relationship of tantra to energy and matter?

Interesting AI answer:

Metaphysics depends on physics. Everything in nature is layered just like quantum physics is responsible for the entire hierarchy of classical physics. Metaphysics without physics as prerequisite is a complete non-sequitur. And furthermore: Physics deals with matter, energy, and their interchangabi...

Chancellor:
“a person in a position of the highest or high rank, especially in a government or university”

Chanceling science:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jc2I9sOFzq0

that was an excellent game... -Imp Spain dominated possession, and their defense was relentlessly aggressive. Argentina was fortunate to avoid a trouncing. Even so, they could have won. The announcers kept hoping for Messi magic. I heard that during his first term, DT secured the location of the 20...

Fairy wrote: ↑Wed Jul 15, 2026 6:18 pm Sounds like alien consciousness. But that’s just another story.

Suppertime
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r46YZJSfxks

Levi Stubbs is great, but the backup singers put it over the top.
(The bass deserves a lot of credit)
That brass percussion, light tinkling Spring rain patter, as counterpoint.

(continued) The guy behind Annie should not have said television is a hot medium. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTSmbMm7MDg According to McLuhan, television is a cool medium for communication. According to McLuhan, dialogue is also a cool medium for communication. A cool medium requires more thoug...

This used to be a sign off on broadcast TV in the USA back in the olden days, just before the bullseye and white snow on the screen. Maybe elsewhere, too. The visual would be a B&W film segment taken from a pilot’s POV of the sky and clouds. It’s a fine way to end the day for insomniacs and shif...

Hot radio made Roosevelt the nation's Daddy despite his policies.
McLuhan knows that radio is hot and dialogue is cool,
but only The Shadow knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men.

Is The Shadow good, or evil?
(The answer can be hot as a lecture, or cool as a dialogue.)

Fairy wrote: ↑Wed Jul 15, 2026 5:46 pm
Space is filled with intense radiation that would eventually destroy any biological organism. So humans could never colonise space.

Spores could, burrowed in asteroids, and you know what they say about evolution.

On a galactic scale in an open universe

God is the organizing intelligence that keeps entropy at bay

In a seemingly uncompromising, unfair way.

#2. Captain Kirk Kirk often defied The Prime Directive by interfering with natural selection, thereby either corrupting the natural processes of the universe, or else proving in episodic fashion that Man is a natural element of the natural world and thus a legitimate natural force of intelligence in...

You Gotta
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-Cffhy ... rt_radio=1

The Shadow knows

Assuming that colonizing space is both necessary for survival (and therefore has some temporal expedience) and is also realistically possible for human beings, could a successful program to colonize space be carried out entirely by an "anarchist" commune? And if there were no "anarch...