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Alkis Piskas

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Yes, that is a possibility. Well, since you brought this up, you must also find out how! :grin:
January 14, 2023 at 12:46
Well, we come back to the conflict between "I have awareness" and "objects do not have awareness" ... See, saying or thinking "I am a body" and "I hav...
January 14, 2023 at 12:40
"Be" and "have" are two of the three auxiliary verbs: be, do and have. These are also the 3 conditions of existence. I am a programmer, I create progr...
January 14, 2023 at 12:10
Sorry if that was a little confusing. I will try to make it more clear: Let's define "awareness" as a state, condition or faculty of being able to kno...
January 14, 2023 at 11:11
Right.
January 14, 2023 at 08:46
Exactly. So, saying "I am my body" and at the same time "I am aware of my body" is a contraction. In fact, it's an impossibility. Because the body is ...
January 13, 2023 at 22:24
Again, you say "My body". See the contradiction, the conflict? From the moment you say "I have" and "my" (something) you cannot be that (something). Y...
January 13, 2023 at 22:06
I agree with this. I desagree with this. How can an object have awareness? How can you be a body and have a body at the same time? Fortunately, only t...
January 13, 2023 at 18:38
This topic might be really interesting ... in some possible world. :grin:
January 13, 2023 at 18:29
It is already difficult in most cases to have a stable government --i.e. run by a same party-- in a single country. Imagine having a single government...
January 13, 2023 at 18:16
Why running in circles? I can only see a straight line! :grin: I gave you examples, Shawn. I can't do more than that. (And please don't ask me "What d...
January 12, 2023 at 18:45
I can't see why the word "good" is indefinable. If it were, then most if not all the adjectives would be indefinable and it would be impossible to com...
January 12, 2023 at 17:25
This is certainly more plausible. But again, I wll have to ask "What reality?" It looks like we have here another assumption, taking as given that the...
January 10, 2023 at 10:01
I can do that. I have practiced it a lot!
January 09, 2023 at 18:14
:up:
January 09, 2023 at 18:11
What God? You yourself said, correctly, that "religions do not, and cannot, agree", which means that the concept of "God" differs among them. And you ...
January 09, 2023 at 17:34
(Check your INBOX)
January 03, 2023 at 18:29
You are the only one who responded to the wish message and the nice image. Are you human? :grin: ... Or are you the only human in here? :grin:
January 03, 2023 at 16:32
I like Bushido. But, I can't convince this forum about much simpler and more essetial things! :grin:
January 02, 2023 at 11:01
OK. There's also a "Philosophy of kitchen", a "Philosophy of animals", ... in short, a "Philosophy of Everything". Since you referred to Wikipedia, he...
December 29, 2022 at 17:26
Well, maybe this is not a Philosophy forum after all ...
December 27, 2022 at 17:14
This is totally impossible. Sometimes one cannot even satisfy all the members of a family or even of a small group. For the very simple reason that pe...
December 27, 2022 at 17:09
What is a "true form of democracy"? The word "democracy" comes from ancient Greek "??????????" (pronounced "democratia"), which comes from the noun "d...
December 26, 2022 at 18:18
I'm just talking about the word "object" and it's use. The interaction I mentioned was between the two uses and meanings of the word. Mathematics and ...
December 17, 2022 at 09:35
You are right. The term "objects" I ised in saying "Numbers are abstract objects" might be confusing because it normally refers to something physical....
December 16, 2022 at 17:35
With which I agree. But I think it is in conflict with your first statement, namely that numbers are objective (reality). It may be a question of inte...
December 16, 2022 at 09:04
How can we be what we have created them? Can we be Ido or Esperanto? Mathematics is a language. The language of Science. All languages are products of...
December 15, 2022 at 16:49
When we look up, at a highest level of matter, we see the Universe ... Microcosm and macrocosm ... Small order and great order ... We have formulated ...
December 15, 2022 at 16:00
Far away from where? :smile:
December 15, 2022 at 15:43
:up: Very interesting info. I have noted down the links to check them later. Thanks.
December 13, 2022 at 12:04
You are right, in a strict way, since the subject is the strands and the object is the hair. However, with a little shift of the subject --by poetic l...
December 12, 2022 at 17:56
Nice! I liked that the "speaker" is revealed to be a hairpin a a little late, comoing as a surprise and dissolving the momentary confusion I was trick...
December 12, 2022 at 17:39
I have never been involved in a discussion about nominalism, nor have I ever considered it much important as a subject, but I have to bring up what Wi...
December 12, 2022 at 17:12
Isn't it interesting that Alexander the Great's conquests ended at India? HydaspesRiver marked the limit of his conquests. He of course had died at th...
December 12, 2022 at 16:57
Why do you ask if you don't really care about replies?
December 05, 2022 at 16:43
Why do you ask if you don't really care about replies?
December 05, 2022 at 16:42
I just had a look at the subject of felicific calculus in Wiki and found Bentham's "algorithm" quite interesting, I don't know if anyone has ever exam...
December 01, 2022 at 16:52
I think yes, in literal, absoulute terms. Something is either true or false. There's no intermediate state. We cannot say partly or partially true in ...
November 29, 2022 at 18:44
I think that the "Refutation" is unfounded or anyway incorrect. Why should Logical positivism be itself justified? It's a method or system, not a stat...
November 29, 2022 at 18:13
Not improbable, if time is circular. The time has returned to a point for you to ask this question again! :grin: Well, my view of time is that it is n...
November 18, 2022 at 17:53
This is quite funny. The video stops exactly after the psychiatrist's question "Is there an awareness of the dowingness of the brain?" That was indeed...
November 18, 2022 at 17:40
Indeed so.
November 12, 2022 at 16:00
Do they? Or do they think they know? :smile: Well, I don't think that it is a mystery: it is not something kept secret, neither something obscure nor ...
November 11, 2022 at 18:45
This is the risk one takes when one agrees to see a psychiatrist! :smile: In this case the woman's delusion might well have been a "prophesy", i.e. sh...
November 11, 2022 at 17:58
Excellent point, and you are well justified to question this (apparent) contradiction, which indeed seems huge: on the one hand, the Buddhist doctrine...
November 08, 2022 at 18:13
Iit is not wrong for me to drive a car and it is not wrong for me not to drive a car. Iit is not wrong for me to write this comment and it is not wron...
November 08, 2022 at 17:08
I what way are you "struggling" and why? What is your adversary? I believe, yes. that would invoke the mind-body duality. But if you feel you have to ...
November 07, 2022 at 16:35
Until now, the dilemma was presented with the opposite situation: Is it is ethical to fire people because job automation? ("Job automation" being the ...
November 04, 2022 at 19:34
This is very good! Was it applied in your school? Is it applied in schools in general in your country or any other country you now? (If yes, please na...
October 29, 2022 at 10:44
I don't agree with this statement: 1) Logic does not need to be introduced. It permeats all things in the human mind. Even before we learn to speak an...
October 28, 2022 at 18:14