Category: Existence
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From an apple that is not an apple to death that is not death...
Okanagan Specialty Fruits Inc. (OSF) has created a genetically modified apple that does not brown after being cut [1]. Is an apple that does not turn brown after being cut an apple? What are the characterisitcs an apple has? How many characteristics of an apple can we change before we stop talking about "apples"? Are…
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Numbers - Do they really "exist" ?
One upon a time humans invented numbers. And since then they see numbers everywhere. But do numbers really "exist" ? Imagine that number do exist. What would that mean for the Universe? As Leibniz postulated (see La Monadologie), if we try to use numbers and fractions, we would always break our head on unsolved…
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Suicide, Computers, Free will, Flame...
The creators of the super-evolved computer virus Flame starting sending a command script to some of the computers infected by it [1], that makes the virus commit "suicide" and destroy itself. If being human is defined by having free will and if commiting suicide is the ultimate expression of that free will, then commiting suicide…
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Science hypocrisy and dogmatism in a Black Hole...
People believe in Black Holes. No. We have not "seen" one. Scientists have "discovered" them via X-ray emissions from various blank spots in the universe. We could try to detect the Hawking radiation, but it is too weak to be used as such. But wait a minute. Things could be more simple. If so many…
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What do you "see" ?
You see a painting in the morning. You then see the same painting in the afternoon. You look at the same painting from a different angle. Then you look at it under a different light. Four different viewpoints. One painting. What "is" what you "see" ? Simple questions. Difficult answers...
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