The Philosophy Discussion Forum

Hi all, long time no see. Apologies, again, if anyone has tried to email me. I've recently set up a new one, so message me with yours if you want it, and I'll email you back. This is to replace my ymail/yahoo account, which I lost access to after yahoo started playing up and asking me to change my ...

I am doing my own edition of the Analects of Confucius commensurate with today's mentality, which I am calling Confucius in the machine. I isolated all the Chinese From the Analects, but instead of translating it, I am having Google Translate and Microsoft Translate do the translations. Now, I abou...

I was thinking to transfer my hard drives over to the new puter, but then I got to searching eBay and found 4, 4tb Hitachi, and put what I would pay for them, 240, less than asking, and each has its own travel case, so these drives have been taken care of. I figured that the seller would take his t...

A lot of people look at the Bible in the wrong way. Think about this, information processing is the only job a mind can recognize and perform, therefore, the only battle it can ever fight, ever win or loose, is aimed at doing its own work. There is no other battle a mind can engage in, the physical...

An image of yourself being used as a weapon to defeat yourself. On one side, the other side, an image of God, i.e., the only power a mind has, to maintain and promote life. Which side you are on, is determined by you actual physical contributions to the battle. The sun can make lavish forests, or r...

Most people do not comprehend the computer. What exactly is it? It is no more than a word processor, an information processor, Therefore, it is the pairing of the physical information processor with the biologiacl information processor, i.e., you see the history of mankind, unfolding in the physica...

I think I pissed off Microsoft a long time ago. They asked me to review their Equation Editor and I flat out told them, I do not use it. It is, frankly, a mess to use. What I use is my own macro's using field codes. I can type out an equation, select it, and the macro will automatically format it, ...

I have only made one modification to Microsoft Word, and I did it decades ago. Due to how much I use it, I changed the Save Button. I added a very small macro to it. That macro gets added to every version of Word since. I think I made the macro either somewhere around Word 2. 0. What does it do? It...

It seems the ebay shop it comes from is close, got here in 1 day. I just ordered the Slimline cable to SSD so I can drive the puter on the ssd as I use two Sata's for my work, one work on the other drive for back up, 1 large drive for my library and 1 for my virtual drives archives, etc. It has the...

Many of my large book projects were done on a T7500 workstation, but, as it grew old, I lost one of the processors, etc, I ended up putting it out on the curb for someone else to fall in love with I have not had a system with that much power since, but, I just got me a T7910 with dual processors an...

Karaoke Confucius Log Purpose: A mind is an information processor for the purpose of producing life supporting behavior. As we process information using grammar systems, we learn grammar systems. You learn words by using words, to produce life sustaining behavior. Goal: Focus on elementary human be...

I study, by reading, but when I study in depth, I digitalize a book. The first book I digitalized was the Bible using a TI-99A. I hand typed the whole book. After that, I wrote a spell checker on that machine. It took 72 disks, as at that time, floppy's were some 300 and something Kb. Although scan...

Finally got enough source material for the best editing, and maybe the best translation of Four Books by Collie 1828. He did not screw up English grammar in spelling names as all those who came before and after. And best of all, he was a Platonic scholar. No one knows when he was born or dies it se...