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The Feeling of Idea Scarcity
Imants Vilks2-1

This is useful and nice. But sometimes there is, it seems to me, an unsolvable problem: when your ‘great idea’ isn’t even so great, so unique or important, but it seems to be true – not only to yourselves but to many contemporary scientists. In your opinion, – the best ones. For example, the idea that in contemporary science there is a big mess with issues like information and entropy. Although the information is measured in bits and the entropy is measured in Joles per Kelvin, most last century publications say that sometimes they are equal. The paper abo... (read more)

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4Slider
I find there is a significant phase-change between being a stereo-direction-hearer and an echolocator. I remember being a stricler about a possibility claim about "it is impossible for a human to know what it is like to be a bat", it was/is not a proper no-go theorem but mere argument from lack of imagination. So I became an echolocator to know. While that is hard to share evidence, the claim about impossibility is disproved for me. I find the bat issue to be an actual question. Assuming that just pointing to a question should be reveal it to be obviously non-sense is a non-argument or at best an argument from lack of imagination.
Ideal governance (for companies, countries and more)
Imants Vilks10

To HoldenKarnofsky. You write widely about basic problems of our civilization. You try to write down, to formulate the basic principles and rules for some hypothetical future society. I will comment only one aspect. E.O.Wilson in his books On Human Nature and Sociobiology (pdf- s are available, I will send if You are interested) wrote that we have created the societies, the contemporary life that doesn't correspond to our biological nature. I propose to place this thought at the base for creation all laws and values You try to formulate. More about these l... (read more)

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