New religious cult in rise?

[Cyberman]

“In a cult there is a person at the top who knows it's a scam. In religion that person is dead”.

[I_am_not_mafia]

Don't have time to watch it because I'm at work, but there's a paradox with emotions. You need irrational emotional biases in order to act rationally. This is called the framing problem. If you can't arbitrarily decide between two equal choices you'll end up thinking through a myriad of possibilities. The neurosurgeon Antonio Damasio describes a patient with emotional impairment acting like this in his book Descartes Error when the patient is given a choice of two different days for his next appointment.

Ironically emotions are actually quite rational, you just have to understand them in the right context. For example, in a committed relationship with a jealous partner, they may act seemingly irrationally to any hint of infidelity, but in evolutionary terms this would stop any partner from being tempted to be unfaithful and may help them stick around and help raise the child.

It's understood that cognition generally widens the range of choices available to an agent while emotions narrow them. You don't want to be considering how tasty the grass might be if you've just heard the squawk of a predator for example, you want to make fleeing your priority over everything else. Doing otherwise would be quite irrational.

I had the pleasure of meeting him in person. He is a brilliant neurosurgeon/neuroscientist. My sister had epilepsy, he and one of his grad students pinpointed the place where it originated, luckily was in one single point in the brain. They operated and ended the epilepsy. All she had was a bit of cognitive problems while the synapses on the place healed.

Brilliant job.

Glad to hear that your sister recovered well. I can only imagine how scary it must be to have brain surgery. His book is a classic in the field. I would love to meet him myself, although obviously not under those circumstances.

[ProgrammingGodJordan]

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Athene is quite the intellect. 

However, Athenism (of a solely reasonable component; logic) is nonsense, whence said reasonable component is generable separately.

Simply, beliefs (ie Spinozism - upon which athenism compacts) are quintessentially redundant/remiss.

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('B')  ~ BELIEF BIAS|REMISS:

Belief constructs quintessentially stipulate EMOTIONAL BIAS.

Samples:
[i] It is a FACT that the MOST EDUCATED people are quite likely the LEAST RELIGIOUS.

[ii] Theists predominantly ignore scientific evidence, on the horizon of emotional bias/belief/faith.

[iii] Isaac Newton, on the boundary of belief in God (See Principia) failed to compute a certain problem. {Newton invoked God, particularly stipulating that his failure [of the aforesaid problem] persisted on the regime of the non-solvable; a solely SUPPOSEDLY God-calculable regime.}

NOTE: Said problem had been subsequently reduced via an atheist, Laplace.

[iv]... [v]... ... [M]... [V]...

Religion (a rather profound belief) thereafter, in many a scenario, appears as a bounder on intellect.

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('C') ~ BELIEF REDUNDANCY:

The universe's best description, Quantum Mechanics, consists of probabilities.

Therein, there persist:

1) An enumeration of probabilities, upon which  optimal actions are computable.

2) An enumeration of beliefs, upon which actions are HAPHAZARDLY computable,  (for beliefs exist such that non-factual/non-probabilistic baseis are invocable.)  quintessentially on the horizon of said probabilities.

The aforesaid enumeration, of beliefs, is entirely redundant/remiss/time-space complex imprudent; for one may compute solely on probabilities.

[I_am_not_mafia]

Who the hell is Athene?

[account_inactive]

Who the hell is Athene?

A gamer on YouTube.

https://www.youtube.com/user/AtheneWins

[ProgrammingGodJordan]

Who the hell is Athene?

See original post.
Athene -> athenism (new cult presented amidst the original passage)

[LastPoet]

Glad to hear that your sister recovered well. I can only imagine how scary it must be to have brain surgery. His book is a classic in the field. I would love to meet him myself, although obviously not under those circumstances.

It wasn't him but his grad student that operated on her. A brilliant younger surgeon. She was 18 and took that decision herself as our Dad feared brain surgery. She was so tired of living in fear of the seizures. Now she has 2 daughters and graduated as a pharmacist.

[Pat Mustard]

What the flying fuck has happened to AtheneWins? Last time I saw him he was playing WoW, now he's a fucking cultist? o.o

Maybe he's fucking a cultist.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

I'm going to suspend judgement on this one until I find out how Kurt Cobain felt about Spinoza.

Boru

[Martyin]

ATHENE IS NOHING BUT A HAIRY APE, HE NEVER CAME UP WITH SOMETHING SMART.