Alkis Piskas

On his tombstone one can read: "I hope for nothing, I fear nothing, I am free" My favorite quote of his.

Very know old stuff. Not of my taste though. Toooo heavy for me.

Hi, Javi. Not so much in that music. "?eavy" oriental (Turkish) stuff. Although the song is Greek. It's traditional music of Smyrne, an old city of Tu...

Well, tell this to ChatGPT iself. It was its own reply. :smile:

Thank you, Shawn.

:down: You ask if someone agrees, you receive an answer and you then ignore it. This is quite impolite, @Shawn.

:down: It is impolite to ask for an opinion, receive one and not replying.

Good topic. :up: "Inherent" and "experience" are incompatible concepts. "Inherent" is something we have by nature, we are born with. "Experience" is s...

You can never be sure of that! :smile: This is an argument based on arbitrary and unfounded statement. But for fun's sake, I would reverse that and sa...

Of course, and too often. And it always raises this very logical question in my mind: "If we are, how would we know it?" Likewise regarding parallel u...

Do you mean Chet has managed to escape before being burnt by the fire, together with the stick?

So, if I say "I know the alphabet, I know that the FTP site exists, ...", all that is only a belief, that is, it's only my opinion, something I'm simp...

My goodness! Has all that really happened to you? I makes one feel quite uncomfortable. I'm also very impressed by your findings. Extraordinary! I kno...

You have stated that already, But you have not backed it up with some explantion. arguments and esp. examples. I believe that anyone who hears this wo...

I'm very sorry to hear that, TS. I don't believe this is true. I know. I think I said that myself too. Yes, most probably. For me, free will is simply...

Wow! This is really long! Multiple choices turned into multiple subjects. :grin: Although, "Is solipsism true?", "Is hard determinism true?" etc. they...

Of course. But I didn't suggest to change the question-title of the topic. Only the last question, which introduces the multiple choices. Sure. I sele...

OK, since you are insisting, I believe that one can use (losely) both the terms "legal" and "moral" culpability. It wasn't my main point anyway; just ...

(The emphasis is mine.) Why, in what sense can one by culpable other than morally? Then, culpable of what? Finally, how is this question connected to ...

I know that. But it is you who asked for empirical evidence (Re: "Where's the empirical evidence for Infinity?") ! :smile: Why, are there real First C...

I have never assumed that, Tim. In fact, I said one could never find a first cause and that looking for it is a wasted effort. And I explained why. (H...

Hi, Javi! Good point. I certainly agree. Breadnan used the word "universally", as if everyone on the planet was a Christian! Well, Christianity, even ...

The word "assuming" that i used was just en expression, Tim. Not part of a logicical scheme. I could also say "based on" or "according to" or just say...

What empirical evidence could there be? Can anyone experience infinity? It can be only conceived or deduced rationally. Anyway, the only other possibi...

What apostles died for it? (And, BTW, what "it"? The NT? It doesn't make sense.) James, the brother of John and one of the original Twelve Apostles, w...

You are right. The discussions on the subject of First Cause can go forever. As those about the concept of time and a lot more. I have been involved i...

I'm afraid that you are trying to make head or tail with fiction. The New Testament was written at least 50 years after Jesus died. It was mainly inst...

Ha! You are right, my friend. The OP is Benj96's. I really don't know how I got you involved in all this. But then, you should have stopped me from th...

Yes, I did. None of them requires the other. Consciousness and awareness are similar concepts. They can be even used alternatively in some cases. Righ...

Yes. I can't see anything else. What else do you have in mind? A kibbutz or a commune?

Well, enactivism holds that cognition is a necessary condition for the existence of consciousness. In my discussions with people on the subject of con...

Yes. Unless you like the way hobos live. Or risking your life by robbing banks.

Yes, all. Including organisms and plants. They all perceive and react to their environment. Because they all want to survive. And multiply.

I believe that considering the work environment at large as unethical is a huge generalization, ungrounded as a statement and a quite biased --one-sid...

My position on the subject is certainly not based in any way on what Wikipedia says. I just brought up this ref for the occasion. It was just handy .....

Spacetime doesn't really exist. It isn't real, in the way matter and energy are. It is theory. It's a mathematical model. "Spacetime is any mathematic...

Don't quote a stetement cut off from its immediate context. It's a very bad and unacceptable habit, ucarr. You must quote the whole idea, thought or a...

Again, all this has to do with the dilation of time. How mass affects time. Nothing to do with what I maintained.

I can still see no difference. When we are talking about facts, our statements have to be true or false. E.g. saying "George is taller than Alex" is l...

Welcome to TPF, Gary. (Well, two weeks ago, but welcoming lasts for a while ... :smile:) I believe that both "formal logic" and "natural-language logi...

I answered it. You just missed it. ... Or maybe you weren't there. :grin:

I have given a look to this Quora question and answers in my search that I talked about. They are based on personal thought experimentation, like your...

I don't know what you are trying to prove. You are changing your previous premises (direct or indirect). It And in doing so you avoid to reply to my p...

E = mc2 says nothing about time. Besides, matter is something that has mass and occupies space. Time has no mass, neither does it occupy space. So tim...

(I just saw that this relatively old message of mine was never posted. My mistake. Sorry. Anyway, I post it now. It might be of interest to you. :smil...

Thoughts are mental images. They may or may not contain words (language) in visual or audio form. You can "see" them and "hear" them in your mind. The...

This is much better! But I would simplify and replace the second part with "that (it may be true sometimes but) this is not usually the case". Or some...

Re: Is philosophy just idle talk? Are you here, participating in idle talk? :smile: (Really, what a strange thing to ask in a philosophy forum! :brow:...

I had launched a discussion about 3 years ago on this exact "quotation", a totally unrealistic and naive statement. https://thephilosophyforum.com/dis...

Quite monotonous ... Not of my taste ...