@Agent, I can't get it. You refer to God as "being a nonphysical entity that exists". But according to the definition of "physical" and "existence" th...
Where does "God" fit in this? Shouldn't "back on track" refer to the subject, which is "God & Existence"? Anyway, what conclusion can be drawn after h...
I think this an incorrect argument. Let's see the meaning of the 3 basic elements involved here: "Justifiable" means able to be shown to be right or r...
Good example. This is one aspect of the case. There are more. For example, an emloyer can do the job of the employee if needed. (It happens when his b...
Isn't this an arbitrary statement? It is not backed up with reasoning or any evidence. Normally, one would think that none of the two is more necessar...
Funny ... I have stepped on "Al-Ghazali’s 'The Incoherence of the Philosophers'" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Incoherence_of_the_Philosophers). ...
Exactly. Isn't that what I have said already? You have even quoted me on that! :smile: Everyone can and does change one's mind from time to time. And ...
In Physics, "static" refers to bodies at rest or forces in equilibrium. That is, it refers to physical things. Time is not one of them. But even then,...
It is good that you know about these guys and their opinions. I also know of a lot of guys who have or had an opinion about time. If cite them, and th...
There's no concept of "measurment". Measutement is an action. (Look up both words, "measurment" and "concept".) Right. I have said that already. Well,...
"Stationary" means "not moving". The possibility of moving is implied. Water can be stationary. A statue is stationary. Inflation can be stationary. T...
I don't know about these persons. And good for them if they believe that "time is fundamentally unidirectional". (BTW, does "fundamentally" mean that ...
Thanks for both your :up: and your reading reference. BTW, in your quote of mine you have left out the most important part, namely, that time does not...
I would add "occurring", since "existing" limits things to static ones. Then, a question arises: are things that are considered real only physical or ...
Well, I don't. I don't know that time is unidirectional. That is, I don't know that time is moving in one direction. In fact, I don't think that time ...
I can't solve it as a paradox, but I can as a sophism! :smile: Because it is not a real paradox, but a "pseudo-paradox" as I call these sophisms. Here...
Re cartooning and animation: Their heroes are so much alive and intelligent ... Some people might believe that some day they will acquire a mind and c...
Indeed. How "unscientific" this is, eh? :grin: A big irony, isn't it? I'm much impressed with science too, but one has to put things in their right pe...
Oh, I see. Certainly there are. But, as you say, they "think there's something more to mind ...". Well, I don't consider this enough, i.e. a "solid" a...
Interesting point. It has been said that this problem —quite old indeed!— was answered by Heraclitus with his famous saying "No man ever steps in the ...
Yet, it seems that a lot of people prefer dreaming ... It's more thrilling! :smile: (Only that dreaming has no place in here and in philosophy in gene...
I just gave a look about the book and saw that it talks about AI. I think that discussions relating AI/computers to brain/consciousness have been exha...
Not if one considers that consciousness is separate from the body. Death and rebirth concern the body. Although I believe that such an experiment woul...
What do you mean by "unnaturally easy"? Is it so evident? Almost all scientists, as well as most philosophers and people in this forum, believe that c...
1) This is an arbitrary assumption or, at best, a hypothesis, and as such, it doesn't prove anything. 2) In the same way that "the depression in the c...
What does this mean? (Hint: The word "existent" is an adjective, not a noun, as used here.) The expression "nothing exists" has no meaning, by definit...
They have indeed a very strong appeal to everyone of us. And there's a reason for that: one of the things that attracts most the interest of a human b...
No, no. This is not the right perspective. @Agent Smith was not referring to Higgs boson ("God particle"). It was just a question I asked ... In fact,...
"A hypothesis is a proposed explanation for a phenomenon. For a hypothesis to be a scientific hypothesis, the scientific method requires that one can ...
I would, if he weren't blame others for his ignorance, as I said. See, there are different ways to make a point, which are totally acceptable. Like yo...
Do you mean that when we switch a light on/off and its result, when we turn a device on/off and its result, etc. occur in our minds only? I do undesta...
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