Gmads .
I love Middle-East poetry, red wine, sunny days.
Location CDMX
Activity
-
Interesting, thanks.
-
Gmads . made a comment
It seems that I arrived too late... "This map is currently frozen." Anyway, I'm from Mexico City.
-
Gmads . made a comment
Given that I consider this subject quite interesting, for some time now I've been studying about chemestry and biochemestry by watching many YT videos. I am sure that this course will help me get a new perspective about this subject.
-
Gmads . replied to Michela Manna
Benvenuta Michela!
-
Gmads . made a comment
Hola a todos, como muchos aquí, me registré en este curso porque me gusta aprender sobre temas nuevos. Soy de la Ciudad de México.
Hello everyone, as many others, I registered in this course because I like learning about new subjects. I am from Mexico City.
-
Gmads . replied to Penny Malakasi
the file must have expired... and no... it hadn't any virus at all... a plain and simple pdf
-
Not us, but I'd say that most would welcome the "reset," that would be a very needed rest.
-
Gmads . replied to Estefany Alberini
@LyttleFish Could be... quite an issue for all of us to whom English is not our native language.
-
@LyttleFish One great truth. If only people would put it into action...
-
Gmads . replied to Penny Malakasi
You are welcome @PennyMalakasi
-
Gmads . replied to [Learner left FutureLearn]
Hi @RadyrC I know they don't. I just stated that both follow the same kind of reasoning, just change the subject.
As I ended before, whether they did or not, is basically irrelevant. There are far more important matters to think and reason about.
Cheers!
-
-
Gmads . made a comment
There are different types of microbes: bacteria, fungi, algae, protozoa, and viruses.
Bacteria
https://microbiologyonline.org/about-microbiology/introducing-microbes/bacteriaFungi
www.edu.pe.ca/southernkings/microfungi.htm
"It may seem strange to think of something as big as a mushroom as a microbe." Indeed!Are viruses alive? Giant discovery...
-
I'd say that microbes must be there since Luna 2, and the same with every other device that has crashed or landed elsewhere.
-
Gmads . made a comment
Stromatolites (Greek for "layered rock"), also called "living layered rocks," are microbial reefs created by cyanobacteria (formerly known as blue-green algae).
A few articles about...
-
Gmads . made a comment
One must be careful... as there is a "may" involved.
-
So, after weeks and months, did she feed them or not? Anyway, interpreting the Bible should be only left for those that follow it in one way or another, not to an atheist.
-
@SamColombinoJr. Thanks. The feeling is mutual.
-
Gmads . replied to [Learner left FutureLearn]
Hi @RadyrC
While there is a possibility of man ever having landed on the moon, what I and many others see, is a similar scheme as that of flat-earthers.
* There are some in power with a particular interest to hide the fact that the Earth is flat.
* Scientists (forced by those in power) have been lying for ages.
* The rest of us have been fools to...
-
Gmads . replied to [Learner left FutureLearn]
Hi @RadyrC I cannot see that as any kind of argument. No rational individual would accept the description of the personality trait of a man as proof for the whole "man hasn't landed on the moon."
But now that we are questioning the people making the statements, I wonder how is it that those without any tools or means can ascertain without a shred of a doubt...
-
Gmads . replied to Patricia Falon
Hi @PatriciaFalon I think I am being misunderstood, as in no way I was trying to imply, nor openly saying that you did not... how could I dare question you on such a personal experience?
I was not questioning you, but trying to explain a particular issue, which now I see I expressed ambiguously, so I will restate it by modifying it a bit: *to be dead* for a...
-
I definitely must be on my dumb mood, as I'm still lost :D but it's ok, I was just intrigued. Hey, but now I learned a new verb: to recuse oneself :) Maybe for different reasons, but I think I concord regarding the course.
Have a good weekend.
-
Gmads . made a comment
Interesting to learn not only about the methods that have been used to determine age of stones and fossils, but see how close to the formation of the Earth life might have started.
The same microorganisms might be there a few kilometers deep in Mars, flourishing and waiting for the best conditions to start evolving. Nothing special about life.
-
Indeed we have, haven't we?
-
Gmads . replied to Rory Stewart
I'd guess that those would be under the initial background extinction.
-
Gmads . replied to [Learner left FutureLearn]
Hi @RadyrC It may not be cited as unequivocal, but it neither denies the possibility.
I definitely won't get into a here-is-the-evidence battle as the issue can be solved rationally.
The motivation behind was not a scientific one, but a political one. This all occured during the Cold War era, so one needs to understand what was at stake.
The amount of...
-
Gmads . replied to Patricia Falon
Hi @PatriciaFalon While current research, hypothesis and discoveries tend to point to a possible breakthrough, where things could start to be seen from another point of view, so far science, by definition, has been totally materialistic. To expect then scientific evidence from this kind of affairs is like asking a wrong question, therefore, certainly...
-
Gmads . made a comment
This is a subject I don't know anything about, but which definitely seems very interesting.
-
Surprising that insistence on "believing"... everything so far has been believing. Where was "knowing" left?
-
The percentages are not about guaranteed outcomes but about probability, which works on large number of samples. Saying that one has a 16.6% chance of getting a 3 when throwing a dice does not imply that one will get one after six rolls, but that one would get around that percentage when rolling it a few thousand times. So a statistical confidence of 95% tells...
-
Gmads . made a comment
Truth is whatever anyone chooses to be truth. Everything else (e.g. reason, evidence, fact, feeling, authority, community, history) is just the means to keep onself convinced that the chosen truth is the truth, and then feel good about it. This, of course, has a reason of being: the law of least effort, it is easier to believe that to actually think and...
-
Gmads . replied to Patricia Falon
Of course that would only explain the initial phase, though it cannot make any kind of real statement regarding the after.
-
Gmads . replied to Pim Wiersinga
By then... "human kind" will have ceased to exist, one way or another.
-
Gmads . replied to [Learner left FutureLearn]
@RadyrC Yes, "It would have been much easier," but they didn't.
A bit ironical to say that "The great thing about Humanism is that it sets aside supernatural nonsense in favour of evidence," and then disregard evidence. I've always said that so called "evidence" is quite useless: people will always believe whatever they want to believe, and they will always...
-
Gmads . replied to [Learner left FutureLearn]
@BenJewell I was about to comment the same :D
-
Gmads . replied to Masaru Nakano
"In order to recognize the truth as the truth, it depends on the state of the person who recognizes it.
If the state of recognition is not enough, you may mistake the truth.
The depth of recognition also changes depending on the relationship between what is recognized and what is recognized."Thank me later.
-
Gmads . replied to Alistair Oliver-Paull
The number who do think we are the only ones to posses it is surprising; truly.
-
Gmads . made a comment
Purpose.
-
But on that day to day... one could be "eaten" by lower level creatures... bacteria etc.
-
---
New research on plant intelligence...
www.pri.org/stories/2014-01-09/new-research-plant-intelligence-may-forever-change-how-you-think-about-plantsAre Plants Aware?
www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/biocentrism/201703/are-plants-awareAre Trees Sentient Beings?
https://e360.yale.edu/features/are_trees_sentient_peter_wohllebenPlant...
-
I just recalled about some interesting examples regarding "consciousness," or of what could be seen as evidence of. Listed from higher levels of life, to lower ones.
---
A Coconut Octopus Uses Tools to Snatch a Crab
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFda1MZ54G4Not directly related, but interesting nonetheless:
A Question of Pain in... -
Gmads . made a comment
"Mental properties are dependent on brain activity, for without it, all signs of conscious life are absent." Really?
The problem with most, if not all kind of movements, organizations or ways of thinking --and their subsequent actions-- lies in the very limited spectrum of knowledge they work with.
The ubiquity of consciousness, cognition and...
-
Aren't both the same?
-
Strange question.
-
Gmads . replied to [Learner left FutureLearn]
So were nazis... our fellow human beings.
-
... and religion gave rise to the horror of inquisition, and science to that of the nuclear bomb.
It's not the tool, but how it is used.
-
Humanism is just another label for people that need to belong to something or to gather under some kind of common belief, which in this case is just the normal and regular atheist point of view. So what's the difference between a humanist and a regular atheist individual? I'd say that it all resides in the usage of a "positive" label --"I am a 'humanist'"--...
-
There are several kinds of rational thought. That we have managed to achieve a particular one does not exclude other living creatures to manage others. This could be paralleled to the question, "if a person does not learn a language, how does that individual then think?"
-
@KeithD Senses are there only to gather information, not to draw conclusions. Beliefs comes precisely from relying on senses *and* not thinking or pondering much about what was sensed.
-
@CarlosFranco More than anything else, that sounds like an effort to be politically correct. Given that rationale, we could also then say that children should not be failed at exams for answering that two plus two equals other than four.
-
Science cannot, but rationality can... fortunately. However, rationality requires quite a lot more than just believing one is being rational... unfortunately. Anyway, depending on how scientific advances are interpreted, science could actually come to prove it, though it could also come to prove that all this science vs. religion dicothomy is a fallacy.
-
Gmads . replied to Luisa de Palma
Just as expressed in the video... :)
-
Wow! Hadn't heard of this one! I just saw the trailer... looks interesting!
-
Gmads . replied to Estefany Alberini
Responsibility, as the ability to respond for one's actions and decisions. A consciously conscious action.
No, I would not say they have a responsibility to care, etc... they just do it, natural instinct... it cannot be qualified as good or bad, and there is no prize nor a punishment for doing or not doing. I am not saying that they are not conscious or...
-
Gmads . replied to Estefany Alberini
Hi @EstefanyAlberini Animals don't have any responsibilities, so one cannot have "more" than them; this concept is strictly human, like so many others (e.g. morality).
-
Gmads . replied to Andrew West
No, I am not stating anything but trying to make evident how similar are both postures, that is, the appearing of something out of nothing. While the essence is the same only the form changes, but that different form is what keeps people (science vs. religion) arguing and debating endlessly, as if they were actually right.
-
jk :D
-
Gmads . replied to Katharina Huber
Among the best company (y)
-
Gmads . replied to Andrew West
The something out of nothing concept is just the desperate attempt from the materialistic-oriented people to give an answer, just as God is the one offered from theist-oriented people. Amazing that people do not actually see the similitude. People that pride themselves from having left religion and having become "rational" just don't realize they changed gods....
-
Gmads . replied to Steve Antill
I'd say that some need a bit more than that, therein the complexity of our world and the irremediable fact that we will never be one.
-
Gmads . replied to Peter Betts
Because we are basically trapped in an infinitely narrow set of conditions; our particular environment is just a dust particle regarding the whole universe. You could start by considering, for example, our own body temperature working range. We have basically managed to survive by altering our environment, rather than by living in harmony with it.
-
Let the killing spree begin!
-
Gmads . made a comment
"The fact that we do not have a complete natural explanation does not mean there won’t be a natural explanation." Nor does it mean that there will be one.
There is no fine-tuning, only what some choose to see. Most people have a reduced notion regarding life. Life can express itself in various ways or...
-
Gmads . made a comment
The only special about the so-called Homo sapiens is that is everything but.
-
Gmads . replied to Ann Azzopardi
Not only it is possible.
-
Gmads . replied to Sam Colombino Jr.
And the check is being handed down, so the time has come to go to the cashier and pay the bill... we are almost there.
-
Gmads . replied to Нина Аврам
Yes, we are certainly aimed to wasteland... sooner (by our own demise) or later (by the extention of everything). All this "celebration" about being human is just a way to ignore the absurdness of it all.
-
Gmads . replied to Glenys Ihaka
Indeed.
-
Gmads . replied to Vanessa Jones
Hi @VanessaJones Was it a painful experience? Beware of getting now into the Science wagon.
-
Gmads . replied to Patricia Falon
@SteveAntill Maybe that's because the Bible itself is full of contradictions.
-
Gmads . replied to Andrea Miller
@AndrewWest "I expect my non-trivial beliefs to be subjected to critical scrutiny." Not an easy undertaking I'd say, regardless of whether you do it or someone else does it. The solution is easier, forgo all beliefs.
-
Hi @PimWiersinga Yes, you are right, the weirdness of the question comes from that underlying nothingness.
-
Friendship? As overrated as love.
Love, happiness, spirituality, etc., empty words to live by.
-
@ElenaCamposMarin "we are flawed" only in our understanding about being perfect, and that has "put" us quite far from that image.
-
Hi @SamColombinoJr. I cannot say why, if there is actually a reason, but the thread seemed to be escalating a bit... so...
Yes, true gems can be found where least expected... where people don't usually dare to go.
Hehe... following the same path. In my case is not that of the corporate approach, but as I questioned, its purpose escapes me.
Indeed,...
-
Hi @MuhamadAli Yes... it kind of gives a general idea, but it could definitely be improved.
-
As long as there is always positive and optimistic people there will be hope for brighter futures, so keep it up, and always be as you are! The way you see the world is how the world will see you :)
Cheers!
-
Hi @SamColombinoJr. Yes indeed, I've noticed a bit of that. Yes, oops, but it is a good wish, and what matters is the intention, the feeling sent.
-
Hi @RachelM I think we can agree that any combination is possible: good religious people, bad religious people, good non-religious people, and bad non-religous people. Anyone's nature is independent of HH religious beliefs, don't you think?
-
-
As mentioned at another thread, yes, labels just provide an umbrella to gather under, they just convey a general idea regarding a particular concept (socialist, hippy, feminist), but in no way they actually define the individual. Nature comes first, labels come after.
-
Hi @НинаАврам But isn't this stated at the very title of the course? "Non-religious Approaches to Life." Anyway, the fact that God is love does not impede or contradict the possibility of having or expressing or living goodness or love without the need of referencing Him, does it? Would it be logical to consider that because someone is not a Catholic or a...
-
It is either all of them or none of them. To keep everyone happy, let's then say all of them.
-
Hi @Geraldinekarran You are welcome!
-
Gmads . replied to Patricia Falon
@DavidDingley Indeed, so there it is, what's the use of a label, beyond that of saying "I belong to this group?"
-
Hi @KatyW Yes... I would say yes, you are ;) But that is very good, this world needs more of that.
-
For how long have there been philosophers? How many great philosophers are there? Philosophy consideres everything. In the end, all leads to that. I don't think there is one area of human activity that hasn't been studied from a philosophical point of view. Consider what the study of philosophy implies; no small matter I would say. But this is diverging.
I...
-
Gmads . replied to Jane Burns
Hi @JaneBurns
Based on where we are now, what would you say?
-
Hi @JanetteT
I'd say that would depend on the reasons that motivated the loss of faith. Some have lost it because they started to actually reason about the subject, and this led them to an understanding; in these cases a sense of liberty comes. The result is positive. Others have lost it after a lack of response to their prayers, specially when they were...
-
Gmads . replied to Howaida Sorour
Hi @DavidDingley Yes, science has always has... from thunder is not sign of an angry god, or the universe is not a static ball in which we find ourselves in the center surrounded by some pretty lights... so no, it is not a surprise, or that I think otherwise, however, beyond making humankind understand how some things work, and being the path for a...
-
Gmads . replied to Howaida Sorour
Hi @TrevorPlant Yes, I know what is the point of a dialogue, or at least I have my own definition (arriving to a truth, sooner or later), and I do disagree with that quote as I definitely think there are absolute truths, but that is not how many tend to think.
I have yet to see or participate in a debate (regarding complex subjects) in which an actual...
-
Gmads . replied to Howaida Sorour
The problem regarding that so-called matter, which many revere, is that scientists (YES, those beloved, god-like figures to many) are starting to come to the conclusion that there is no matter! (fact that has been know in certain other circles, which I'll refrain myself from getting into.)
So... even materialistic, free-thinking people make the same mistake...
-
Gmads . replied to Howaida Sorour
@HowaidaSorour That just worsens the issue. If the sense of "I" comes not from the soul, energy, or whatever term may be of anyone's choosing, then that sense can only come from matter. Ugh! Quite a dilemma! We are now reduced to accept that life (consciousness, intelligence, awareness, feelings, etc.), comes from a lifeless, unconscious, unintelligent, etc....
-
Gmads . replied to Howaida Sorour
@TrevorPlant If you are talking about the science of 200 years ago, then yes, I agree with you, I am delirious and way off, an heretic at the eyes of any scientist. Given that that seems to be the matter, and update on current, actual science might be needed, which is why I put a few links in my last post.
Again, it might be just a matter of some having a...
-
Gmads . replied to Howaida Sorour
@DavidDingley Just check the links, and get a bit into what quantum physics states.
-
@DavidDingley We both are saying and questioning the same. You said, "Not unique to humanists? One would like to think those with a religious belief do something similar?" Yes, as a matter of fact they do, and again, I would also say that even better, precisely because of their path and development. Yes, most people are really clueless about their beliefs, but...
-
@DavidDingley LOL! Yes, of course, 100%! But... I was *not* putting the philosopher next to the regular person, but to humanists. I mean, the argument was that humanists think more about certain subjects than most people, so that could be set as a difference between them, and I accepted that. However, I then question, if that is the difference, why the need...
-
Gmads . replied to Andrea Miller
@SamColombinoJr. Yes, fortunately he is not here to see what became of his teachings.
Ah, Ok, I see. Yes, I totally agree with that. As illusory as everything else.. but hey! That's what keeps everyone ticking.
Indeed, impossible to know, though, relatively predictable.
-
Gmads . replied to Andrea Miller
@SamColombinoJr. I agree with what you expressed, though I am not so sure about the second point... I actually don't get it much.
-
Gmads . replied to Andrea Miller
@SamColombinoJr. Indeed he (Jesus) would! Ironically, those who label themselves as his followers would actually crucify him once again if they were to spend time with him and not only learn what he was actually teaching and expecting of people, but to have to act accordingly... they could definitely not be further away from his teachings.
