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  1. Seems like you can host 2 contradictory ideas in societies, in words and in your own mind. Its a problem, yet not an issue 🙂

  2. And sections of society have internal battles with reality – those early Sumerians that thought there was more to the heavens than just God – are weirdly similar to the conspiracy nuts who still think the same thing – despite all the knowledge now amassed.

  3. I say we can know lots of things, and we can know them in lots of different ways – just ask people and most of them know how they know what they know. Even if philosophers say they don’t really know.

  4. Agreed, and there’s no real reason to rely on certainties – quantum fluctuations happen, shit happens, so what if its certain or nearly certain, you’re still gonna end up not knowing anything at all in the end.

  5. We can, and usually the knowledge comes from the four pillars are (a) knowledge, (b) truth, (c) critical thinking, and (d) culture.

  6. People will laugh, that’s fine – but groupthink laughter is a dangerous thing according to Jim Caroll.

  7. You can never have too many ideas – can you?

  8. Wrong – “It doesn’t sound like the kind of thing Shaw would say although he did like mind games,” Jay Tunney, author of “The Prizefighter and the Playwright: Gene Tunney and Bernard Shaw,” said in an email to the Daily Caller News Foundation. “In fact he was highly analytical. But this doesn’t feel like him.

    The website Quote Investigator traced the expression back to a 1917 magazine advertisement, though variations may have appeared earlier. In this early version, the word “dollar” was used instead of “apple.”

  9. For me, and others, virtue is the key to good ideas. Being and doing good, not looking for fault and failure.

  10. Hmmm, but “Switzerland is the most innovative economy in the world in 2022 – for the 12th year in a row – followed by the United States, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the Netherlands. China is nearing the top 10 while Türkiye and India enter the top 40 for the first time, according to the GII 2022.”

  11. There’s no such thing as originality, just authenticity.

    He also said “Yes, there are original ways to express thoughts, ideas, concepts and philosophies, but no, the actual subject upon which these thought, ideas, concepts and philosophies are based on, are not original.”

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  12. Ok. Only if you have nice ideas. Don’t bother if you don’t.

  13. Not really related but every time you have a conversation, you are inviting someone to ghost-write bits of your autobiography. Read this if you care

  14. True. heres a quote “A recent Harvard study found that our memory plays a crucial role in our creative capabilities. It revealed that when we reminisce about something we’ve experienced about in the past, it utilizes something known as episodic memory. This in turn helps to trigger divergent, or creative, thinking.” from this old article https://adigaskell.org/2015/09/08/the-link-between-memory-and-creativity/

  15. the idea reminded me of this…

  16. Imagine a world where you couldn’t ridicule ideas. That wouldn’t work at all. Especially conspiricy theories. These people need to know their opinions are based on false knowledge, and ridicule seems to work quite well. For more, read the link.

  17. Adding this link as it says it all really.

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  18. … as if councils would provide a place for community event advertising – they only find the time to add advertising displays they make money from. And they pretend to support community-minded people rather than business. Read this – flyposters are banned, advertising is welcome. Typical.

  19. Yeah, I agree, it should be the brand advertised that gets prosecuted, not the skint person doing the work. The law sucks, but nobody seems too interested in making it fair.

  20. An idea stock exchange might not work as anybody could just pinch the idea and start trading that one instead. But there are other options to make money from your ideas. Read this and let me know if you have had any success.

  21. . Idea Market is a stock-exchange-like innovation portal that leverages on the power of the crowdsourcing and opens a space for people to express their ideas and collaborate with each other. As a result, it reinforces happiness among employees, leading to higher company growth.

  22. Sure, but science is about discovering truths. and about the lives of the people discovering it. Nature has no ideas, scientists do.

  23. Councils could save on the continuous cost of clean-up by installing big community digital display screens where anyone can post an event for free. Just go online and upload your flyer. Have linked to a supplier of big community display screens, but this could work like noticeboards, or like those in bus stops.

  24. Cheer up, they say. Not as easy as you think, I say. This article explains the relationship between thoughts and the health of your brain.

  25. Good point, the idea is that thoughts create connections, you later use to create more thoughts. Very interesting.

  26. Hard to argue with this. But I don’t think God or some alien had to think something like a Universe up in order for it to exist. One thing is for sure though, all things AND ideas will perish, leaving no-thing and no-idea.

  27. Like the idea but some things were just things before anyone thought of them, such as planets and atoms. Other things may not have been real things, but they are universal ideas that seem to exist independently of our cultures and social norms…

    “there are the ideas that do not distinguish themselves by what can be seen or heard, but by what can be felt. Their names are truth, justice, faith, hope, love, they do not seek to be known but to be felt.”

  28. Prizes totalling £45,000 have just been allocted to innovators from commonwealth member countries who suggest forward-looking solutions, which advance their values. Nobel should follow in these footsteps for sure – sustainable development wasn’t even a thing when the prize was set up.

  29. Agreed, would be a good idea to have a specific Nobel Prize category just for sustainable development. As far as I can see on their site one one winner has been “for contribution to sustainable development, democracy and peace.”

  30. Expertise is overrated, what makes us strong is diversity. This idea reflects this through and through. I guess in some realms, its an accurate description of what’s really going on.

  31. I heard about this in the video. It started a whole new load of speculation about statistics and prediction… “At a 1906 country fair in Plymouth, 800 people participated in a contest to estimate the weight of a slaughtered and dressed ox. Statistician Francis Galton observed that the median guess, 1207 pounds, was accurate within 1% of the true weight of 1198 pounds.”

  32. Interesting. I guess the law of averages has been debunked plenty enough by now, things don’t even out at all, and you never know where you may end up.

  33. I can recommend the book by John Vacca that came out a while back, but it lacks biology and chemistry problems to some extent. A website would serve as an online bank.

  34. Always wondered why the world didn’t simply list unsolved problems somewhere. Universities should have a poster in each departments lecture hall and toilets, listing that subject’s 10 top problems to solve to remind students to think big. Here’s Wikipedia’s list of unsolved problems in different subjects.

  35. They should just come to ideamill once in a while innit.

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  36. I would love this. Darwin didn’t invent evolution, who came up with it first. Spacetime was being discussed before Einstein too. Currently, you have to use Google Scholar to trace back an idea or invention.

  37. Paley’s keystone claim was completely wrong. not sure why people still believe that “There cannot be design without a designer; contrivance, without a contriver; order, without choice; … means suitable to an end, and executing their office in accomplishing that end, without the end ever having been contemplated”

  38. Intelligent design, according to Its believers, is the same as Creationism – therefore, not an answer.

  39. Here he is again on quora

  40. Jung fanboy – he wouldn’t mind me calling him that – Peterson says as much in this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqWLrG16Tz4

  41. Regarding the EU – “we should stay at the table but with new cutlery.”

  42. These exist, but I don’t think there si a clear winner atm.

  43. I have been looking for a site that does this for years now. Best I come up with is this answer on stack exchange / patents “Yes, there is a list. No, it is not exhaustive. In fact, the patent system is expressly designed for this purpose. We want people to know about expired patents and to use them as they see fit. The USPTO Patent Database provides patent images for all patents since 1970, and text files for all patents since 1976. Every patent issued before 4/10/2000 (as of this writing) is expired. Some patents after that date are expired, depending on whether the patent has been abandoned. There is no list of every single expired patent, but you can produce a list of the bulk of expired patents, and then search more recent ones on a case-by-case basis as necessary.”

  44. I like this, from an answer on quora “Small minds discuss people- Some people are so jobless, I’m sorry if this brings offense to anyone but, they’re so jobless, they back-bite or they talk about another individual’s decisions. They “discuss people,”. They waste their own lives by discussing about the lives of other people.

    Average minds discuss events- The same. They discuss events. Not people, events. Events that happen around the world. But events. Something happened at this place earlier? Ah let us talk about it- sort of a thing.

    Great Minds discuss ideas- Y’all have a life. One. Life. Why would you waste it discussing about other people or events? Why not make some use out of it and discuss your own ideas to improve your own life rather than loitering around & preventing people from aiming their goals? Use. Your. Life.”

  45. Introducing…IdeaMill

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