intellect

Insightful post about reason, abstract thinking, and science, highlighting gifted science fiction influencers.

Feel-osophy
Facts or truths will never be able to be proven or tested by our emotions or feelings. Facts, truths, plumbline, gospel were words that carried weight and significance with them. These words are associated with statements that are determined to be absolute, static, immutable, and stable. It did not matter how one felt about such descriptions, they were true or false regardless of how anyone felt about it. With the recent events that have unfolded in politics, the transparent look into the thought lives of Americans through Facebook. We have seen the evidence that a complete and entire generation or generations have no idea how to determine fact or Truth.
By Jellyfish Lab5 years ago in Futurism
LIVING WITH SOCIETY
There is absolutely no inevitable, so long as there is a willingness to contemplate what happening....humans are not meant to exist in an economically stratified society. Humans adapt to their environment! We are built to survive, so yes we do need social structure because if we didn't the world would be total chaos.
By Latasha Smith5 years ago in Futurism
What if
With so many different people living here on earth its seems only right that groups form. Each person expressing their thoughts, their personal views and opinions that once expressed are a light house to those of like minds. As new ideas are born as these groups of similar thoughts spend time together there are communities born providing a banding of support for each other inevitably leading to the vindication of each individuals self belief.
By True Story5 years ago in Futurism
Have I learned anything yet?
Why? Let me begin by asking a question. Can you be yourself if you feel that someone is looking over your shoulder all the time? When you are certain over many years, that the one looking over your shoulder, doesn't like the way you think.
By Howard Titman5 years ago in Futurism
Truth or Fact
What do you see? A light? A bulb? Darkness? What does the human eye see first? Do you see the reflection of the light illuminating off of the wall and the shadows of lines that it creates? Do you see the details and the intricacies of the bulb design? Or do you see the whole picture itself and nothing stands out to you?
By Rae5 years ago in Futurism
Discomfort & Intolerance
To paraphrase a line from Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, science is the study of fact; not truth. If it’s truth that one is interested in, there are numerous podcasts pertaining philosophy and theology on Spotify. However, what does a scientist do when the person who writes their checks is looking for only a certain kind of fact? Let’s say, for example, that there is a man named Joe. Joe is a learned archeologist during a time of renewed public interest in Joe’s particular field of research. New university chairs are being endowed, new museums are being opened, the older museums are receiving an increase of funding, archeological sites are becoming popular tourist attractions, multiple books and documentaries are being released to raise awareness about important local history. Yet, all that Joe has to do in order to partake in this paradise of higher learning, is to put his soul up for sale. This fictitious conundrum was exactly what the German academic community was faced with during the regime of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party. It’s efforts created a Frankenstien-esc monstrosity of pseudoacademia and was used to justify their political agenda of ignorance, bigotry, racism, ethnic superiority, and genocide; only to have it’s methods continue on into the modern day (in a way which may be difficult to recognize at first glance).
By Jacob Herr5 years ago in Futurism
Math Morals (Part 7)
1. Shapes such as triangles, squares, circles etc. follow certain rules. For example, dividing the circumference of a circle by its diameter will always give pi, no matter what the size of the circle is. Likewise, square has four equal sides and so on.
By Basil5 years ago in Futurism
Nature vs. Man-Made (Trees vs. Buildings)
As I was walking through my block during the morning walk, I was trying to observe my surroundings, not specifically, but was trying to take a general look at the environment around me. For the first time in my life, I made some weirdly obvious, yet never thought about observations. In any typical city, we would usually see two common things: buildings and greenery (trees). What follows is my observation and thoughts from what I observed in my surroundings:
By Basil5 years ago in Futurism
Is Human Identity really positive for the World?
We may have advanced in our understanding of Identity, with branches of studies like Philosophy and Psychology deriving many concepts and logics of Identity. But with all our understanding of our Self Identity and Social Identity, is our Identity positive for our world?
By Karan Thapa6 years ago in Futurism
Specialist And Generalist Knowledge: Get The Best of Both Worlds
“The capacity to learn is a gift; the ability to learn is a skill; the willingness to learn is a choice,” Brian Herbert. During evolution, several species developed different survival strategies. Some became more generalists and others more specialists.
By Sigmund Carlson6 years ago in Futurism
To Understand Descartes
To understand Descartes’ Meditations, one must be aware of the time period that he wrote these philosophy analyses. He sought to undermine Aristotelian thought (the majority of knowledge comes from the senses). While he, on the other hand, unfolds his own assertion that knowledge comes from the mind. In the first and second meditations he thoroughly discards all belief that could be doubted and thus comes to the conclusion that thought is the essential action that allows and determines the world around us. In other words, we must know more about our mind than the world around us, rather than analyzing the world. He also proves why one must analyze the mind and how one could do this.
By Katelind Sky6 years ago in Futurism
Math Morals (Part 6): Proportions
We get a proportion when we put two ratios or rates equal to each other. So, (1/3) = (100/300) is a proportion where 1/3 is a ratio of 1:3 and 100/300 is a ratio of 100:300, but since both ratios have the same value, we put them equal to each other to make a proportion. So basically, a proportion is an equality statement of ratios or rates.
By Basil6 years ago in Futurism