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[hanzo @hanzo848]

Notorious B.I.G - Sky's the Limit instrumental https://t.co/Yo07N7ajd0 via @YouTube

[hanzo @hanzo848]

Living Singe Ending Credits Theme Extended https://t.co/YSV1g5YS6n via @YouTube

[Neil deGrasse Tyson @neiltyson]

Arc of Enlightenment in a rational, civilized world:

Data → Facts → Information → Knowledge → Understanding → Wisdom.

[hanzo @hanzo848]

https://t.co/fwpPpr4S8G

[David Deutsch @DavidDeutschOxf]

Become?

*Remain*.

And what drives it more than anything else is fundamental (blue-sky, risky, mould-breaking) research – for which, increasingly in recent years, the system has had no place.

[Piotr Szafrański @piotr-szafranski.bsky.social @PiotrSzafraski4]

@anneapplebaum Back to philosophy basics: people DO NOT, in their subjective understanding, live/interact with a real objective world. They live (in terms of conscious decisions) in THEIR representation/understanding of the objective world. And that understanding/representation can be shaped.

[Piotr Szafrański @piotr-szafranski.bsky.social @PiotrSzafraski4]

@kathleenplante @anneapplebaum Being highly trained, like e.g. medical doctors are trained, does not necessarily mean "educated" in terms of wielding the whole machinery of understanding the objective world.
"Education" understood as "sophisticated trade training" can be no different from a sect programming.

[hanzo @hanzo848]

@DavidDeutschOxf Thanks I will take a look at Stephen Stich's book. Did you also discuss this in your book 'The Beginning of Infinity'?
I've just started reading Bertrand Russell - 'The problem of philosophy'

[hanzo @hanzo848]

@DavidDeutschOxf Hi David, please could you recommend a book or paper I could read to get a better (first principles) understanding of what a belief or idea is, it’s lifecycle, environment and some effective tools and techniques for testing/validating ideas

[hanzo @hanzo848]

@LKrauss1 Thanks, will look them up

[hanzo @hanzo848]

@LKrauss1 Hi Lawrence, please could you recommend a book or paper I could read to get a better (first principles) understanding of what a belief or idea is, it’s lifecycle, environment and some effective tools and techniques for testing/validating ideas

[hanzo @hanzo848]

@JohndlvVickers @DavidDeutschOxf Interesting round table on metaphysics - https://t.co/8YruAA7MO3
Why is it that the part of my brain that's supposed to come alive and be engaged with excitement at sports is instead occupied by awe, curiosity and wonder at math, science, philosophy & music and I am content

[hanzo @hanzo848]

@DavidDeutschOxf Can something 'interesting' happen in the universe if you wait long enough after 'heat death'?

[hanzo @hanzo848]

https://t.co/Y6SfyoDd5C

[Neil deGrasse Tyson @neiltyson]

Seems to me, if Thor is a god, with godlike powers, then he doesn't really need big muscles.

[Neil deGrasse Tyson @neiltyson]

If Bruce Banner retains his original mass when he expands to become the Hulk, then his body must become less dense. If so, then in his Hulked state, he'd have the density of a champagne cork. I’m just sayin’.

[Neil deGrasse Tyson @neiltyson]

Not that anybody asked, but Superman's Krypton home star system is LHS-2520, an actual red dwarf star in the southern constellation of Corvus, The Crow. But also, a Crow is the Mascot of Smallville High.

https://t.co/qkvuHbYTCI

[Neil deGrasse Tyson @neiltyson]

**Exponential Leporidae**

Left unchecked, 1,000 rabbits in 5 years, become 7-billion, the human population of the World.

After 15 years, a "land-ocean” of rabbits fills to one-kilometer depth across all of Earth’s continents.

Viruses can reproduce waaaay faster than Rabbits.

[Neil deGrasse Tyson @neiltyson]

If viruses were macroscopic and cute…

“Rabbit” Island
Okunoshima Japan.

https://t.co/eGsAjqOJGw

[hanzo @hanzo848]

@neiltyson how does combustion/explosions work in space? e.g. is it fair to say, hydrogen is the fuel and instead of an oxidiser we have pressure driven by gravity causing fusion?