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Why would you not have to try each and every combination of features known to create a different effect on the outcome? There are what, 500 different psycho-active chemicals in can…

He yearns to be an autocrat, dictator, and tyrant, but this yearning nor its fulfillment will ever make him a king. Kingship is a sacred trust, a sacred role of “first servant of t…

Very surprised by your comment. -- Spoilers ahead. -- The Bene Gesserit spent thousands of years selectively breeding humans, and training them extensively in physical and mental p…

Lighten up, Francis.

Seems like you're describing a lack of integrity. I think it important that we remember, people / institutions / things that lack integrity tend to fall apart.

You seem to take away that the author leaves us with judgement. It seemed to me the author ended on a sad note.

Thanks for expanding and clarifying your comments. I too find much of the U.S. court system troubling; more to the point, the common law itself. The standard catch-phrase in the Un…

Did computer science as a field exist in Lady Ada's time? No, it did not. And where did computing science get its formal beginnings? In mathematics departments. I guess I just have…

Yes, this was probably an excellent time to put forth this proposition.

Spin aka intrinsic angular momentum

Hey have a nice day

My educational background is in mathematics and physics. I think you'll find I can give disciplined, logical thinking a run for your money. Logic after all is only an adherence to …

I like the idea of requiring a response in order to downvote.

>I doubt they are actually convening with the divine. I appreciated your comment overall but this statement stood out to me. May I ask what guided this choice of words? Why would y…

Note what I did and didn't say. I did NOT say: "People with psychiatric disorders will be cured by spiritual experiences." Having a mental disorder is a pretty miserable existence,…

Do you mean to imply that my "type" of thinking is bad / wrong / unsafe?

I appreciate the effort you've put in to "refute" me, but I do not think that you've actually put much thought into it. I'm aware of how logic works, I have a degree in mathematics…

People with psychiatric disorders need spiritual journeys. Spiritual journeys heal and cleanse the mind, heal and cleanse the soul. Do not try to strip that away. The commodificati…

This is very sad. I hope he figures it out.

For a long time, the Great Man theory dominated a lot of thinkers. Now there's a lot of pushback on the Great Man theory. I think I like both the theory and the pushback both. Real…

I long for voice, for playful humor, for that je ne sais quoi of good writing! Robert Anton Wilson wrote a marvelous book called Quantum Psychology, where he uses the insights of q…

Well, yes. It was unmitigated praise for men like Jefferson for a lot of years, which sent the message that those flaws you mentioned were nonexistent or unimportant. Now our socie…

War is always a servant of policy. "Vanquishment" thinking is where the United States has gone wrong, for a long time now.

Hey thanks for this! There are a ton of sub-genres I'm not well acquainted with so this super helps. One request I would make is to be able pause the game, so that I can see the ar…

Having studied both pure physics and pure mathematics, my impression is that physicists don't really do mathematics, they use a pidgin form of symbolic expression related to mathem…