@"darthbarracuda"@"Thorongil"@"TheMadFool" @"schopenhauer1" @"Rich" @"Noble Dust"@"Agustino"@"Bitter Crank" I would be interested to hear all of your ...
I agree - all our predictions are very likely to be completely wrong. Though we are essentially a mind, and the purpose of the mind is to understand. ...
Correct - If the purpose of reproducing is just a means to continue motion of matter in the universe - why does this require consciousness to do so? I...
Firstly what do you mean by "life in toto"? This statement has no logic - if we as humans have the power to create and take life away then for what re...
I 100% agree. Though it's fair to say we can only predict anything and everything based on the information and references we currently have. There's n...
We agreed earlier that the purpose of life (for arguments sake) was for matter to continually move. If this was true then at some point the universe w...
We were discussing whether existance was circular or whether it had a beginning and end. Proving this from our our perspective being fourth dimensiona...
I disagree - A practical demonstration of Earth's sphericity was achieved by Ferdinand Magellan and Juan Sebastián Elcano's expedition's circumnavigat...
One desicribing their emotion toward someone else as 'love' purely identifies that you have a strong affection toward them. Your relationship with the...
perhaps - though I'm not familiar with Bergson's Vital force but at least you've given me something to go onto ahaha thanks for the discussion non the...
You're right that if it has a separate beginning and end it is impossible to identify which make my argument mute. Though if you agree it's circular (...
I'll have to read the article before commenting on what they suggest. Though based on your quote above, if the continuation of motion is the entire pu...
Fair statement - essentially when you can not derive any further. Which as you stated is difficult or impossible to identify. So perhaps that's reason...
Maybe in some sense. Let's say that statement is true - motion means for something to go in a specified direction or to change position. Though as I'v...
In terms of physics motion of energy (which is essentially what we are talking about), continues as a means to evenly distribut energy amungst all mat...
Is it though? Or is it a logical sequence of steps to find the origin or absolute beginning? Logically everything must start from one point. Unless yo...
Fair statement - it essentially substitutes the contention that the purpose of life is continuing the cycle of life (reproduction). Though still leave...
Play - is a mechanism (1) to learn (2) to reinforce and build social relationships - both are advantageous in terms of creating properous survival/ li...
Love is defined as a strong feeling of affection. The strong feeling of affection toward wife, sister and book aren't different. What's different is t...
With all these analogies there is an underlying purpose for all these actions being done. Eg. The reason you would be cutting with a knife is to perha...
@"TheMadFool" Despite the fact that I believe this statement is true, it would be ignorant or obnoxious to say its the best means of doing so. (There ...
@"TheMadFool" I don't disagree with your premis that continuing the cycle of life is to better understand the universe from humankind - my question is...
@"TheMadFool" cont I agree that this is the purpose of all living things as individuals "to continue the cycle of living things". Though if the purpos...
@"TheMadFool" Yes. Philosophy is an attempt to better understand the world around us. Doing so is advantageous as better understanding the world aroun...
@"TheMadFool" The thirst for knowledge isn't a need to sustain life - learning is a mechanism to better understand our environment as a way to improve...
@"Thorongil" Your response What I meant buy this is the fact that we keep alive long enough to reproduce and create the next generation - hence 'conti...
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