Religion is a useful model
"All models are wrongSome of them are useful"(aphorism in statistics)Belief is in your deedsLet's observe first that we can never contain the whole complexity of the world in our brain. In most situat...
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Philosophy for robots?
As humans are less and less inclines to read long articles, I guess I will need to start writing philosophy for... robots. What would be different in a philosophy for robots/AI or any artificial intel...
How to build a better World
Let's start by observing that, when someone does something that is easy or inexpensive for him, that creates a benefit way bigger to someone else, the overall welfare in the World increases. We would...
On the Anthropic Principle - the selection bias
Many physicists observe that Universe seems to be carefully crafted to sustain life. Only slight changes to physical laws constants would make life as we know it impossible.However, I think this is mo...
Mathematics is not so useful in practice as you might think
Mathematics is an useful model for reality.However, most inventions that claims that use mathematics are only inspired by mathematics. Sometimes the mathematics was created after the fact. Encryption...
My Profane Philosophy
Philosophy of LifeIs there a meaning of life?What is the meaning of life?A secular concept of HellDevil's offer - about the meaning of lifeLife is very compressibleThe seed and the terrainPhilosophy o...
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Philosophy of LifeIs there a meaning of life?The meaning of human life - for me, now HellDevil's offer Life is very compressibleThe seed and the terrainPhilosophy of MoralityMorality derived from spac...
A secular God concept
All that is goodIn a first approximation, God is a catch-all concept about everything that is unexplained about the world and human life. Such God concept is consistent with most religious beliefs tha...
On Knowledge and beliefs
We consider many propositions about the world as either true or not true. However, in my view, human knowledge is not a collection of true and false propositions. What we consider as evidently true ar...
On Russel's Paradox
Russel's paradox is defining "the set of all sets that don't contain themselves". You can show that such construct leads to a contradiction. Read the wiki link for details. I started this article as a...