Category: Philosophy General
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Don't read philosophy if you want to do philosophy...
Many people tend to read philosophy in their effort to be philosophers. And yet, that is the only thing you should not do. Reading about what others have said is the best way to poison your thought and cat away any original ideas. If you know what giants like Aristotle or Plato said, how can…
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Boltzmann's idea of entropy and the Creator: An unexpected end…
While reading a scientific paper for thermodynamics (Ted Jacobson, Entropy from Carnot to Bekenstein, arXiv:1810.07839 [physics.hist-ph]) I came up to a reference of Boltzmann’s (and later on Planck’s) notion that entropy corresponds to the logarithm of the number of microstates compatible with a macrostate, and that entropy is maximized in equilibrium. Given that, one can…
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Short answers to important questions
Hawking said that there is no God. (1) Should we care? The answer: No. Hawking was a good (not even the best) scientist in his specific field (and there are MANY fields in science). But he is not a philosopher. He actually believed that philosophy is dead. And surely he is not a good theologian.…
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Who died. Who played football. Who got married. Why care? [The curse of being a global citizen]
People today search for their news in the Internet. And most of Google top searches show a tendency. (1, 2, 3, 4) We care for other people. We love reading news about them. Who married. Who died. Who played in which football team. Who won the Nobel Prize. Who wrote the latest best seller book.…
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How to... do things. Why care? [The curse of doing something]
What a strange era we live in. People keep on wandering how to do things... How to make a good site. How to get a good Alexa rank. How to make meatballs. How to buy a used car. How to make money. How to mine Bitcoins. How to make babies. How to kill babies. (a.k.a.…
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