Terrana
If you think something can be dismantled and later reassembled, and still be the same thing as before it was dismantled, then why wouldn't it be?
Suppose both of these ships exist at the same time. Which is the original ship? Is either?
The answer is, of course, that it depends. Identity is just a convenience, something we impose on the world to make sense of it. Those atoms don't care what they are.
Terrana
The famous Ship of Theseus thought experiment demonstrates how the concept of identity is mutable.
It goes something like this: suppose every part of a ship is replaced, one by one, until none of the original parts remain. Is it the same ship? Most people would say so.
Let's say someone else keeps each part as it is removed, and then uses them to build a ship to exactly the original specification. Is it the same ship?
M. Grégoire
@nigelsezyarr The sooner the better is my personal view. But I'll chat with CH, she may have some other considerations.
Are you going to Comox beforentou head this way?
Oneesan succubus
M. Grégoire
Are you curious about some of the complications that have arisen? I could point you towards some news about court cases if you're interested.
M. Grégoire
Who wins Election 2019 under a ranked-ballot system? #PhilippeJFournier in #Macleans
https://www.macleans.ca/politics/ottawa/who-wins-election-2019-under-a-ranked-ballot-system/
The short answer [0]: it wouldn't change the end results much. For me, the fact that ranked ballots give results similar to first-past-the-post is one of their advantages.
[0] The major flaw in the model is that it doesn't account for a voter who strategically voted for her second preference.
M. Grégoire
@strypey Many people said that in Canada, and now we're wondering what counts as suffering, what it means to be terminally ill, and whether my voluntary decision now should outweigh my voluntary will later. Not as easy questions as they first appear
M. Grégoire
M. Grégoire @mpjgregoire
Venice has been sinking all my life, largely because they pumped groundwater out from under the city. But of course #ClimateChange will make things worse.
‘Tragedy of a lifetime’: Venice declares emergency after near-record tide and floods | National Post
https://nationalpost.com/news/world/tragedy-of-a-lifetime-venice-declares-emergency-after-near-record-tide-and-floods
M. Grégoire
"By the end of this week, Bangladesh’s agriculture minister is expected to announce the approval of “golden rice" for sale and use, making the country the world’s first to embrace a food that could save hundreds of thousands of children in developing nations from blindness and death."
Finally.
#TheWashingtonPost
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/11/11/golden-rice-long-an-anti-gmo-target-may-finally-get-chance-help-children/
M. Grégoire
L'acte du souvenir était en français, anglais et en mohawk cette année à Montréal.
M. Grégoire
Remembrance Day stories all Canadians should know | National Post
https://nationalpost.com/news/postmedia-remembers-stories-of-fellowship-and-survival-from-canadian-veterans
booklord 🇨🇦 🇬🇷 🇹🇼 🇭🇰
Next two tech things I want to buy, in this order:
Pine phone
Pine book pro laptop
M. Grégoire
@bgcarlisle Seems to me that "first, do no harm" provides very broad scope for physicians to decide what "harm" is, and to decide their treatment policies accordingly.
M. Grégoire
"[A]n emerging theme of federal politics in months to come will be the scale of Justin Trudeau’s electoral triumph."
In #PaulWells's analysis, the Liberals feel confident since they held on strongly to Central Canada and indeed many #Liberal MPs there increased their pluralities.
https://www.macleans.ca/politics/ottawa/trudeau-re-election-means-never-having-to-say-youre-sorry/
The research fairy 😷 🧚♂️ 🌈
> Quebec denies French citizen's immigration application because 1 chapter of thesis was in English
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/french-thesis-immigration-caq-1.5351155
M. Grégoire
Orwell on *Gulliver's Travels*: "In a Society in which there is no law, and in theory no compulsion, the only arbiter of behaviour is public opinion. But public opinion [...] is less tolerant than any system of law. When human beings are governed by ‘thou shalt not’, the individual can practise a certain amount of eccentricity: when they are supposedly governed by ‘love’ or ‘reason’, he is under continuous pressure to make him behave and think in exactly the same way as everyone else."
The research fairy 😷 🧚♂️ 🌈
Citations per paper
* Philosophy: Like 1, 2 tops
* Medicine: Over 9000
Who to cite:
* Philosophy: Only dead people
* Medicine: The living
Did you forget to cite them?
* Philosophy: They're dead nbd
* Medicine: Oh jeez oh jeez oh jeez run
The XKCD Bot
The weirdest quirk of the Borda count is that Jean-Charles de Borda automatically gets one point; luckily this has no consequences except in cases of extremely low turnout.
https://xkcd.com/2225/
The research fairy 😷 🧚♂️ 🌈
There are many forms that justice can take
But there is a special place in my heart
For the ironic or self-inflicted kind
Hi everyone, I have a master's and a doctorate in ethics ama
>> @bryn@godforsaken.website
remember remember the fourth the fifth
the minor fall and the major lift
the gunpowder the treason hallelujah
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