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"Last night, the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film went to  Mr. Hublot , which is now available online. Set in a mechanical world,  Mr. Hublot  follows a man with OCD who brings a robot puppy into his life. Laurent Witz wrote and directed the award-winning short, which manages to transport us fully to its world of factories and gears while maintaining a strong emotional core. It's easy to see what made it Oscar-worthy." (From the i09 website)

Ideas and images from a post on the "i09" weblog   8 Great Philosophical Questions That We'll Never Solve I found a post titled "8 Great Philosophical Questions That We'll Never Solve" It was from the i09 weblog. I decided to share my ideas about these questions. Let me know what you think. 8 Great Philosophical Questions That We'll Never Solve - StumbleUpon "Mathematical structures can consist of numbers, sets, groups, and points — but are they real objects, or do they simply describe relationships that necessarily exist in all structures?"  I think that numbers only describe what is "real" and have no real existence outside of our minds.

Ideas and images from a post on the "i09" weblog   8 Great Philosophical Questions That We'll Never Solve I found a post titled "8 Great Philosophical Questions That We'll Never Solve" It was from the i09 weblog. I decided to share my ideas about these questions. Let me know what you think. "The Golden Rule is great (the idea that you should treat others as you would like them to treat you), but it disregards moral autonomy and leaves no room for the imposition of justice (such as jailing criminals)," I'm not sure what would be the right thing to do in the illustration above.  Maybe the best action would be to save a group of people while letting one person die.   But what if the relatives are evil? What if you could not live without your true love?  Would this be self-preservation?

Ideas and images from a post on the "i09" weblog   8 Great Philosophical Questions That We'll Never Solve I found a post titled "8 Great Philosophical Questions That We'll Never Solve" It was from the i09 weblog. I decided to share my ideas about these questions. Let me know what you think. "Another way of saying all this is that the universe can only be observed through a brain (or potentially a machine mind), and by virtue of that, can only be interpreted subjectively." "Everything you know, everything you've touched, seen, and smelled, has been filtered through any number of physiological and cognitive processes."   Maybe this is why we use a jury of 12 people or  Having a majority in congress agree before a law is passed.

Ideas and images from a post on the "i09" weblog   8 Great Philosophical Questions That We'll Never Solve I found a post titled "8 Great Philosophical Questions That We'll Never Solve" It was from the i09 weblog. I decided to share my ideas about these questions. Let me know what you think. "Materialists assume that there's no life after death, but it's just that — an assumption that cannot necessarily be proven." "... there's no reason to believe that we only have one shot at this thing called life."   I believe this is a matter of faith, not logic.   I've heard of uploading a person's soul into the internet; continuing life after death by surfing the "web world".  I've heard of moving the soul into a new artificial body.  Just like replacing a leg or hand with a manufactured body part; the soul would be transferred from the dying body into a new body. 

Ideas and images from a post on the "i09" weblog   8 Great Philosophical Questions That We'll Never Solve I found a post titled "8 Great Philosophical Questions That We'll Never Solve" It was from the i09 weblog. I decided to share my ideas about these questions. Let me know what you think. "We do not know enough about the inner workings of the universe to make any sort of grand claim about the nature of reality and whether or not a Prime Mover exists somewhere in the background."  ~George Dvorsky From my point of view believing there is a God involves having faith, not logic.  You have a feeling or yearning for something more than this life followed by nothing.

Ideas and images from a post on the "i09" weblog   8 Great Philosophical Questions That We'll Never Solve I found a post titled "8 Great Philosophical Questions That We'll Never Solve" It was from the i09 weblog. I decided to share my ideas about these questions. Let me know what you think. "But if we don't have free will, then why did we evolve consciousness instead of zombie-minds?" I believe we have some free will but not completely.  Here's my idea: The adventure of life is like sailing in a small ship.  We can adjust the sails and rudder but the wind and waves are mostly in control.   Reaching our goals, changing them when the situation proves they are unobtainable, recovering from unexpected hardships, succeeding when it seems all is lost; in the end we have much less control than we believe.  This makes life scary but it also makes it exciting and enjoyable.