Elections play an important role in a democracy. In the United States, there are schedules set for elections for the House and the Senate. While all the seats are supposed to be up for grabs, there are many candidates who seek re-election and retain their seats. They have advantages over the challengers. However, lately there has been an increase in partisan loyalty. […]
The film ‘Arrival’ supports the strong form of the Sapir-Whorf theory, by showing how the protagonist’s view of reality is transformed after learning an alien language. […]
The problem of radical translation is that someone may never be really sure that their translation is accurate. This problem would be much more acute when translating a truly alien language. […]
The Drake equation has a large number of unknown variables, which can only be estimated. It tells us that either the possibility of alien civilization in our galaxy is rare or that all advanced civilizations self-destruct before contacting others. […]
Evil in the Genesis tradition is prompted, by psychological motivations of resentment and rivalry. God seems both a guard against evil for humans and also, inadvertently, to goad toward it. […]
The first murderer Cain is also the first founder of a city. Because of this cities can be seen as sites of rebellion against God; the classic case is the Tower of Babel. […]
Adam and Eve are the first to actualize the potential for evil, which was part of the cosmic structure that God had created from the beginning. […]
Compatibilism is a theory that tries to reconcile the notion of determinism and free will. But it seems that the theory of compatibilism suffers from logical inconsistencies. […]
The second and third movies in “The Matrix” franchise mostly deal with the philosophical notions of foreknowledge, free will, and determinism. […]
Over two millennia, philosophers suggested many theories to solve the riddle of free will. “The Matrix” sequels try to answer this question and reclaim human free will. […]
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