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French man beats the odds to win 1M euro lottery a second time(dailysabah.com)
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by nyc111 8y ago
> “We don’t teach anything,” says Nicolas Sadirac, head of École 42. “The students create what they need all the time.” This is amazing! Bravo! I've been saying for years that "there is no learning where there is teaching"
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Aristotle's Ethics(plato.stanford.edu)
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by nyc111 8y ago
I don’t understand what you mean and I will not continue the discussion, instead I’m reading this article in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, a great article about Aristotle’s ideas on the topic. https://plato.stanford.ed
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by nyc111 8y ago
I’m not arguing about happiness. Or about how to be happy. My point is that Aristotle and others did not know about the role of some chemicals in the body that produce a feeling of happiness.
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Yes. That was confusing.
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No! I'm not talking about taking melatonin supplements at all. Given the right conditions the body produces it. I didn't even know you could take it as a supplement.
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> My body doesn't do breathing exercises on its own, and it wants to look at the phone screen before sleep... You are right, that's why I said, or I was trying to say, that as the conscious self, I will prepare the most favorab
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Did Aristotle know about the relationship of seratonin and the feeling of happiness? I believe not. Therefore, he could not have advised about hapiness and seratonin. If you claim Aristotle knew about Seratonin, maybe you can give a referen
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That’s not what I meant! If you sleep in a really dark room; if you do not take your phone into your bedroom; if you do a short breathing exercise before you sleep, then, scientists tell us that your body will secrete melatonine and you wil
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by nyc111 8y ago
All I was trying to say was that neither Aristotle nor other historical philosophers knew about the role of chemicals in the feeeling of happiness.
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> Aristotle is still the most insightful and relevant philosopher after all these years. From physics, to psychology, to biology, to politics, to ethics, to metaphysics, to logic. No single man has made more contributions to him. I total
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> With TVs, we see how the outward form stays the same over a long period of time (rectangle, with varying depth), but the inner mechanism is completely different (vacuum tubes, plasma, LEDs, etc.) This is a very good point. I have to ad
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Does spacetime exist?(youtube.com)
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> There are subsets of creationists... This is what I don't understand. We don't need to be "creationists", to observe that the letter "A" was designed by an intelligent designer. That an ant colony is desig
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> But this has to stop at some point... That's my point. We don't need to get into infinite recursion because we cannot know as humans the ultimate origin of anything. The best we can do is to try to find out the local and natu
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I'm always puzzled why similar topics always end up as a fight between so-called scientists who advocate evolution; and religious folk who believe in an "intelligent designer." The thing is, the "intelligent designer&quo
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Apparently, drivers in Japan are es reckless as everywhere else https://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2013/07/15/voices/bum...
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Ask HN: Are there speed bumps in Japan?
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> Even if there is something that could influence our choice but that is not the state of the universe and that is not randomness, it would still be something, not yourself, pulling your strings, would it not? Very interesting thread on
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> My opinion is that there is significant and ongoing progress in philosophy... > 16. Much greater incorporation of the insights of women into philosophy... How is the "incorporation of the insights of women into philosophy"
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> In physics and, more generally, in the natural sciences, space and time are the foundation of all theories. My opinion is that this is not true. If we assume that what he calls "natural sciences" model nature by using equatio
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> that babies somehow "know" their parents' language despite having no contact with them But this can be easily found out by talking to these Chinese twins who grew up in the US. Do they speak Chinese naturally? I guess no
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Yes. I just found out about it. Just shared the link.
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It seems that a similar study hava already been done: Study: Eating Cheese Can Alter Your Dreams https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=485148...
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> An early—and perhaps the first formal—inquiry into this phenomenon was done by Aristotle in his On Divination in Sleep . His criticism of these claims appeals to the fact that "the sender of such dreams should be God" I resp
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I thought the same thing. Probably because he writes the way he speaks. Or I would like the secret of it.
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Previous discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17074489 This same Paris Review article was locked; I'm glad they unlocked it now. But other Paris Review articles are all locked and require subscription.
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by nyc111 8y ago
Thanks, I didn't make that distinction. You are right I was considering Roman and Greek societies. Wikipedia corroborates what you are saying https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_ancient_Egypt Still, I think
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What about Giardano Bruno? The Church was ruthless against people who questioned its dogmas. How is this a-historical?

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