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  A comment on Conversation: Are science & spirituality one and the same?

  Mar 13 2013: On the personal level they are all the same thing- they are made of person's beliefs. The diffefence is in the content of those beliefs and their sources. The greates difference between the two is that science in general (on average) makes better, more precise predictions.

• A comment on Conversation: What motivates you?

  Sep 24 2012: Japanese people have "tsuyoku naritai" which translates "(I) want (to be) stronger". This is the force that drives many of their comic-book characters to overcome more and more difficulties. Not for competition, rivalry or any high purpose, just from the pure will of power for the sake of power alone, where becoming ever stronger is a goal in itself. It is not a goal to be achieved and to be done with. The goal is to always be moving forward, to grow stronger even when theres no one and nothing to compare to. Even when we already surpassed everyone else. This is in my view the ultimate motivation, that once mastered is an unvincible force to push you to accomplish everything you might possibly ever achieve.

• A reply on Conversation: How do the cosmologists account for the time gap of the distant galaxies' images?

  May 18 2012: The question is how do we account for the time gap between distant objects measured.
  As you say "The Shift towards Red is greater at further distances because the further we look out we see those objects moving away from us faster than ones closer to us." but those objects are also more distant in time. Their red-shifted light was emitted earlier than the light of those closer objects.

• A reply on Conversation: What is the single most important question that the youth of this era need to ask themselves?

  Sep 8 2011: As far as I understand your question Corvida, yes. There really is no single answer to life and if there is we are yet to know it, so we shouldn't be expecting kids to find the right question, let alone the answer itself. We should, however encourage them to inquire, to be curious, we should lead them to the answer and for the best not give it to them on a silver plate, so they can learn how to seek an answer themselves later in their life. Finding answers and defining things is a skill like any other and everyone have to gain it through experience and practice. So they should not ask one, most important question, because they wouldn't handle answering it, but ask all the questions they can come up with in order to create detailed map of the world, so they can later place themselves somewhere in there.
  
  Luke, as for your last sentence, I'm aware of this as I consider myself a beginning reductionist.
  Here is an article on distinguishing those two things http://lesswrong.com/lw/nh/extensions_and_intensions/
  To answer someone's question you can do three things: define, show and give her a map to find herself. I would support the third option as it gives the answer and shows how to find it yourself. Two birds one stone.
  
  We can let kids trip down, but we can't let them stay down. We have to help them get up and going on. We have to be there to support, scold and praise them. We have to moderate the flow of their stream of consciousness so it won't go awry. Especially in these days of information noise when we tend to loose contact with real world in favor of social networks being in touch with people that are closest to you is so important.

• A reply on Conversation: What makes difference between low-income people (or people living in poverty) and the others (or people who do not live in poverty)?

  Sep 7 2011: I agree. Why Steve Jobs isn't African? Because Africans are dumber? No, it's because there's no means for a Steve Jobs to come up with Mac in Africa.
  It's easier to drive a car on a highway then walk through the desert.
  
  Jang hun don't apologize, your English is pretty decent.

• A comment on Conversation: what inspires you to become a good person?

  Sep 7 2011: Fun Theory. What "good person" means? In terms of Fun Theory increasing other people's happiness.
  As for the religion I personally started to wanting to become better person after I left christian faith behind.
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  A comment on Conversation: How can I decide what to do with my life?

  Sep 7 2011: http://singinst.org/overview/whatisthesingularity/
  
  You can also go for Eliezer Yudkovsky's Sequences on LessWrong http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Sequences to find an inspiration for yourself.
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  A comment on Conversation: What is the single most important question that the youth of this era need to ask themselves?

  Sep 7 2011: All these questions you're proposing are good, but they might be too hard to answer for a teenager or it can actually hurt her. More than that now I come to think that parents shouldn't allow their kids to answer questions like 'who am I?', 'whats right?', 'what should I become?' themselves. Seriously, would you let 15 years old choose your job? Would you let 15 years old yourself choose a car for you now? No, I suppose not.
  So single, most essential question I wish my younger self asked himself is "What else to ask dad?". I guess I would be better off that way.

• A reply on Conversation: What is the single most important question that the youth of this era need to ask themselves?

  Sep 6 2011: Luke I see we think alike. I meant the same thing just you put it in better words.
  Now the question is what comes first, defining yourself or filtering out bad influences so that they don't harm you affecting your self?
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  A reply on Conversation: What is the single most important question that the youth of this era need to ask themselves?

  Sep 6 2011: Youth are more vulnerable to bad influences of unfiltered information. And theres more of it these days. The selves are diluted in it.
  We're much of what people makes us. In our parents/grandparents world most of the environment was family, home and neighborhood and now theres this Globalization thing.
  I'm sorry I can't find words for my thoughts, as I'm in the middle of learning English, actually.