http://think.net/2011/05/28/quora-answer-do-people-value-twitter-or-quora-followers-more-why/ http://www.quora.com/Do-people-value-Twitter-or-Quora-followers-more-Why? Topicmarks.com summary:http://topicmarks.com/d/0K0xfR2qtOszsIirDl9hPwnkP

Article: http://bit.ly/kRpkCf by Matt Warman in The Telegraph Namesake conversation: http://bit.ly/mz1Z57 My comment on Namesake: Hawking Said: “Most of us don’t worry about these [fundamental ] questions most of the time. But almost all of us must sometimes wonder: Why are we here? Where do we come from? Traditionally, these are questions for philosophy, but philosophy is dead,” [...]

Namesake.com answer Is there absolute truth? If there is not, then how can knowledge exist? If there is, then how is it determined? Topicmarks.com summary: http://topicmarks.com/d/3PjFEVPKQZjWG0BzJCfgWr1O [My answers are always way too long for this format. So I have decided to do something different, which is to post my answer to my blog and direct you [...]

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Which is a touchier subject: religion or politics? Asked by Ed Stapleton Jr on Namesake.com http://bit.ly/jgjvUi TopicMarks.com Summary: http://topicmarks.com/d/01VEuQ6jstPfdLus6RhRF_95M Think.net Blog: http://think.net/2011/05/18/namesake-answer-which-is-a-touchier-subject-religion-or-politics/ Namesake.com Location: http://namesake.com/conversation/edstapletonjr/which-is-a-touchier-subject-religion-or-politics Ge.tt http://ge.tt/3y81q3E?c Min.us http://min.us/mvoLHEZ

Peter Thiel question asked of people before he works with them, http://read.bi/kkNx8K My Response to a Namesake Conversation: http://bit.ly/kJ25SY TopicMarks.com Summary: http://topicmarks.com/d/1cyn9nBkB2RsxGFozvu4tEjhi Reference: http://read.bi/kkNx8K Question of Peter Thiel, article PETER THIEL: Winning Big By Betting Against Everyone by Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry published May 17, 2011, 11:43 in Business Insider http://www.businessinsider.com/sai http://read.bi/kkNx8K Remarks by Kent Palmer on Namesake.com Ge.tt http://ge.tt/38uipT8/v Min.us http://min.us/mbe5IHycu0XDBF

For me an amazing fact is that only the Indo-Europeans have the concept of Being in their language. And that both Being and Having are the most irregular verbs in Indo-European languages, and thus artificially produced by blending together other verbs. This means that Being (Sein, Sat) is an anomaly in language with all other [...]

  Listen to my story! http://www.telescopictext.org/text/iVhESUvRNIxPP http://think.net/2011/05/16/telescoping-text-experiment-listen-to-my-story/   The new sonnet?  

Topicmarks.com summary:http://topicmarks.com/d/0O4W56VNl-7tTHMwoAJlZyAym This is a very good question, something unusual for Quora, so it deserves an in depth answer. The reason it is a good question is that this is something that is widely misunderstood even by people for whom this is a speciality. In other answers I have talked about the relation between synthesis [...]

This is a continuation of the answer to the last question about Engineers that was not published on the Quora question. This statement about the essence of the technologist or engineer is true but with a deeper truth than verification and validation and correctness, and even a deeper truth than aleithia, uncovering process truth, but [...]

Topicmarks.com summary:  http://topicmarks.com/t/TzhzRHxJfDQ2MzQ2fFV8NDYzNDZ8NFFrfA As a social scientist that became and engineer by accident, I have noticed about my colleagues that: They generally do not read articles in their field but assume that they already know the answers to questions, and do not seek outside information on problems they face. They do not understand the scientific [...]

For Kant Objectivity is directly based on the Imagination, because it is the Imagination as faculty that allows us to project Synthetic A Priori of Space and Time, or now Spacetime. For Kant Geometry is synthetic A Priori because it is based on the Imagined Singular of Space. What is interesting is that there are [...]

Source: https://www.gogplus.com/Innovation/Discussion/How-far-has-artificial-intelligence-advanced-are-any-machines-close-to-being-self-aware Answer also at http://think.net/2011/05/07/g-answer-how-far-has-artificial-intelligence-advanced-are-any-machines-close-to-being-self-aware/

See http://think.net/2011/05/06/namesake-discussion-gestaltflowsystemprocess/

Not known for my pithy replies, I still have something to say on this subject. And that is that it is good to simplify as much as possible but not so much that what ever you are talking about is trivialized. Therefore the list of attributes of pithiness given in the first answer are not [...]

I have discussed this in other answers I have given here, so see some of my other posts. But it is an excellent question, and some answers bear repeating for the sake of clarification. As I have said elsewhere to be briefly touched upon here. Being only exists in Indo-European languages, and existence came into [...]