unapologetic

I would miss Sunday School, I read a lot of the articles.

I really like this oldie.

TheEncogitationer wrote:
Chimp ‘civil war’ breaks out between 200 great apes

I’m not sure it’s all that surprising.  The group got big and split into two.  Now, they do what chimps do and the two groups are fighting each other.

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
Since the Dobbs decision, Christians are becoming more aggressive.

I think “aggressive” sums up MAGA in general.  Aggressively stupid, aggressively selfish, aggressively unaccountable.  There was one on the radio today claiming that the Christian God is a God of war.  They’re aggressive.

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
What do Americans consider immoral? (turning left on red is not there).

This is very interesting.  “Marital infidelity” is way out in front by miles, with only 2% finding it morally acceptable.  That’s the only one that is on my list of evolved “moral domains” – sexual pair-bonding.  It would be interesting to see ho…[Read more]

jakelafort wrote:
If Lefty ideologue listens what does she say in response to this Iranian?

That video is from a UK “right wing dingbat” channel like Fox News: it’s an outrage machine.

Have you seen this Reg?

https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a70223461/constant-universe-time/

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
How do some people go against the moral grain?

The article talks about wanting to please a “moral audience”, and this could be one way that we choose our moral principles.  Maybe this is true.  What about an audience of one – me?

I think this comes down to “subjective endorsement” – i.e., moral principles carry n…[Read more]

jakelafort wrote:
Only men. Women get a pass? Chimps, Kangaroos? Same deal?

“Men” = “people”.  We’re all men.

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
Do you see “now” as a real moving present sweeping along the line or a a point of access within a fixed structure.

I understand it to mean “now” is local to you. But that doesn’t mean it moves. It just means your current brain state only has access to one region of your worldline. “Now” is real as perspective b…

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TheEncogitationer wrote:
In all fairness, any prediction could be considered true if the prognosticator talks nebulously enough, moves the goalposts, and, above all, talks a lot. Astrologers, psychics, and self-proclaimed “prophets” do it all the time.

They could, and they do, but this was different.  She went around telling people their futu…[Read more]

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
“Now” is not a universal property spread across space. The universe doesn’t care where the time zone line is drawn. Only humans do. Our segmentation of our experience of time flow is just a convention. The feeling that clock time reflects a moving reality is mistaken.

OK, true, the clock isn’t evidence of anyth…[Read more]

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
So yes, we do experience a “present” but not “now”. Experience is a perspective from one region of spacetime, not evidence that reality contains a moving “now”. A camera records one frame at a time, but the film does not move through the camera — the whole reel exists.

I don’t know what it proves.  I’m not saying it…[Read more]

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
In spacetime, an object is not a 3D thing that moves. It is a 4D curve or a “worldline”. From my birth to my death, I am not “an entity” or dot moving through time. I am an extended 4D structure. Think of a thread woven though spacetime. (Or as I called myself previously – I am an ontic worm).

Yes, but you only expe…[Read more]

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
Modern physics does not operate with any variable for time = flow. No equation contains a term to describe ‘time is moving’. Relativity explicitly forbids universal flow as different observers in different locations disagree on temporal ordering.

Is this not “argument from ignorance”?  We can’t explain it, ther…[Read more]

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
I needed to stop confusing time passing with time as a coordinate 🙂

Yes, but the coordinate keeps changing as time passes.  Or, as you pass time.

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
Do we cooperate or compete to survive?

It’s interesting to think about the conditions where it’s optimal for the individual to cooperate, or to compete.  As a species, it’s necessary to cooperate to survive.  As individuals, it’s sometimes optimal to cheat.