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Doc, I take zero offense at your comment. I was only kidding around. It is something that everybody seems to say nowadays and so I was making a mockery of it. Obviously lost in translation due to the medium!

On my sister site, Access World Forums, I have added a "Featured Forum Post" section in the sidebar. It is a test to see if I can leach some interest from that site over to The Mind Tavern. My methodology is to find the most replied posts on The Mind Tavern and use those as the bait! If there...

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Thanks for the reference Doc. I would like to clarify my position, and it involves a paradox! Most objections to my view on voting stems from creating strawman arguments, that are then easy to knock down. They are misrepresentations about what I actually say. I am very precise in what I say! I...

For those who know about this famous experiment, I just wanted to say what a mind boggling outcome! It change the course of physics forever! The discovery that electrons fired from some kind of emitter through two slits would end up with a wave pattern, rather than two vertical lines was eye...

I used to be interested in string theory. The multidimensional nature of it was all a bit mind-boggling.

If you knew me on a personal level Doc, you would realise what a child I can be! I have to take offense at the suggestion of the patriarchy coming to the save the damsel in distress. It should indeed be the damsel coming to save the knight in shining armour, sweeping him away from his toxic...

In my description of the falling coin, I never factor in time. I see it as irrelevant. It is merely about the distance. If there is an finite number of half steps between the falling coin and the table, the coin never reaches the table. But there is an infinite number of half steps. With a...

These are indeed deep questions. I see it as a case of nested freedom cages, rather like Russian dolls. The larger context is their nature, since this defined the broader parameters within which they could operate. Next came the nurture, that imposed further constraints on their thinking...

If God is omnipresent, the only thing I can think of that is everywhere is matter. Therefore, does God = matter? For the pedantic who wish to refer to vacuums, I am including dark matter in the equation!

In essence, both perspectives are true, depending on your lens. Although we do differ a little on the detail. Perhaps mathematically they are equally distant, given the strict constraints of our mathematical paradigm. Or is it a case that an infinite number is so far beyond the realm of...

I've been waiting for a while for The Watercooler to reach 4 figures. At last! That is a couple of milestones today then.

Doc, I like your ability to characterise the various movies, applying mental models to them and their differing themes. I am weak in this area, perhaps because I immerse myself in logic and miss out on culture and fiction. I have never really liked the fantasy genre, although I do like science...

Nicely put Doc. We all want progress, but when you are knee deep in manure, struggling for that green grass can make you sink further.

Yes, if they were an alpha, beta or delta, their freedom was defined by these parameters. Their nature shaped what nurture to apply, so I suppose it depends on what nature/nurture argument we are employing.

It is an interesting position Doc and I think I might have found the source for your comments on limits. Forgive me if I am wrong. http://mathforum.org/library/drmath/view/52507.html What is interesting, is that Doctor Mike and Doctor Anthony both have a different perspective, but what we can...

Following on from another thread involving infinity, I had a new insight. Or is it a question of sorts? Is the number 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 closer to infinity than the number 5? I am sure you will agree that both numbers are infinitely far away from infinity. If so, they are an...

Good point on the social commentary, or rather the reverse of science fiction. Could social commentary be then considered science fiction if it's predictions do not come to pass? The reverse case of my point, even if you don't agree with it!