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= The Advanced Life of Kasterfin = = Ideas Summary =

'Philosopy Zoomin 2'
''"Humanism is an approach to life based on humanity and reason – humanists recognise that moral values are properly founded on human nature and experience alone and that the aims of morality should be human welfare, happiness and fulfillment. Our decisions are based on the available evidence and our assessment of the outcomes of our actions, not on any dogma or sacred text. Humanism is a naturalistic view, encompassing atheism and agnosticism as responses to theistic claims, but is an active and ethical philosophy greater than these reactions to religion. Humanists believe in individual rights and freedoms, but believe that individual responsibility, social cooperation and mutual respect are just as important. Humanists believe that people can and will continue to find solutions to the world's problems, so that quality of life can be improved for everyone. Humanists are positive, gaining inspiration from our lives, art and culture, and a rich natural world. Humanists believe that we have only one life, it is our responsibility to make it a good life, and to live it flourishingly."''

"Are we to be religious? In that case, it is assumed, there are real truths, real standards, real values which we can use to guide our own behaviour and that of others. Or, are we to be atheists or agnostics? In that case, it is again assumed, there are no real truths or standards or values, and we fall prey to a variety of ailments: materialism, cynicism, nihilism, relativism.

''There is almost nothing that is right about this way of drawing up the issue, and the philosophical tradition has abundant resources to show that there is almost nothing right about it. Yet this tradition seldom gets its voice heard."''

'Philosophy Zoomin 3'
''So what gives rise to such baffling questions? In a word, self reflection. Humans are relentlessly capable of reflecting on themselves. We might do something out of habit, but then we begin to reflect on the habit. We can habitually think things, and reflect on what we are thinking. We can ask ourselves (or sometimes get asked by other people), whether we know what we are talking about... We are looking at the scaffolding of our thought, and doing conceptual engineering.''

'Quantum Add' & '... The Sciences'
''If we were to measure distances that are as small compared to a proton as that proton is to a human, or to record time scales as short as 10-43 seconds, we would find that Newton's matrix had evaporated into a space-time foam. I cannot imagine what this would be like, but science fiction writers love it. There is general agreement that the quantum vacuum is where everything that we now know came from, even the matrix of space and time.''

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