Yes I know what you believe, the important question is why when a concept is epistemically astray -Again...this is what you keep saying but you fail t...
- is this a serious argument? Our ability to reproduce a concept plays no role to its validity lol. This is not how we evaluate claims of hypothesized...
-unfortunatelly people try to address their frustration by going over those limitations. (Magical supernatural claims). Removing frustration is not pa...
The difference between human brain and other "brains" (computers) is that computers work with algorithms. Inputs inform the algorithm and the algorith...
that is not a meaningful argument. in fact its a fallacy (from ignorance.) We don't accept a claim and wait from others to falsify it That is not reas...
Subjectivity is not a mental property. It is a quality we observe in thinking agents because their conscious thoughts are the product of emotions(expe...
-wait......is this a serious argument? like there isn't an intermediate state being dead and not dead?being eating and not eating. Those are true dich...
-:It does have a burden of proof. But so does every other theory of consciousness. We look at them all and pick the least problematic. I reckon it's p...
- -No no no.....I didn't ask anything about that abstract concept/ quality of subjectivity . I was clear. The claim is that mental properties can emer...
-Educations plays no role in superstitious beliefs. We know from neuroscience that decision in our brain are taken and they we reason them to our selv...
-"Can you please expand and elaborate on the Null Hypothesis." -Sure. The Null hypothesis is a logical principle that mainly informs our statistics(no...
You don't get it....how can you demonstrate that this concept you say it is related to an other thing that I depend on? How can you DEMONSTRATE this c...
This is really hopeful. Questioning our presumptions is the only way we can -No it isnt'. Consciousness is a biological phenomenon. Organisms with a s...
-Because this is why we avoid to be scammed by con artists. This is why we don't answer back to emails from Nigerian Princes. This is why we hold rece...
-Those are two different logical criteria. The first (lack of belief due to the absence of evidence)is defined as the Default Position by the Null Hyp...
-Of course this is what Neuroscience,psychology, medicine etc are doing. They apply systematic and objective methods on subjective qualities. i.e. con...
Objective truth means that any scientific theoretical framework can be verified by anyone who is willing to reproduce the steps listed in a study and ...
-because wheels don't work with staircases.....Our reasoning improves along with the available facts -Atheism and certainty of claim...is like like sa...
No I am not. You set the goal post in a level you expected to be, but like all human affairs, evaluating claims is also messy. -"Science is said to be...
1. The 'pure witness' is a version of eternity. -so you are trying to validate a made up supernatural agent with an idealistic concept that we can not...
-And what is the wise conclusion that is produced by criticizing this made up concept sir? How this conclusion can add in our understanding, inform an...
-You keep going to the extremes. From Observation statements(almost deductive tautologies) to metaphysical presuppositions and magical claims. You do ...
-Again you dishonestly bring up scientism when I already have stated that Science is not the only source of epistemology and science can not answer ev...
There is nothing eccentric about the use of the philosophy. Philosophy is defined by its etymology (Love of wisdom). The philosophical method is defin...
Why are you listening to other people's metaphysical beliefs??? Being an atheist (the minimum position) means to not be convinced of claims about god'...
So "new atheism" is nothing more than exposing religious wrong doings that have crippled societies and epistemology for ages. Religious people and mag...
-"Sam Harris: Mostly focuses on the ills of religion (terrorism, oppression of women, and so oon)" -yes , philosophy is the study of facts in an attem...
-well that is a condition but its not the only self correcting mechanism of the process. Objectivity binds the published findings but it also binds th...
-I am not sure of your conclusion. That sounds more of an idealistic belief than a product of observation and objective evaluation of facts. I mean, h...
-So you don't get which quality is responsible for "independent verification"..... Let me give out some letters...it starts with "object" and ends wit...
even if Einstein or others did assume creation or a creator, that would only be product of their metaphysical beliefs ...not a product of their Scienc...
-again, its irrelevant to the fact that Methodological Naturalism is not a metaphysical view but an acknowledgment of our limits of our methods. -"On ...
I am referring to metaphysical claims and discussions that have zero ties to established knowledge. I am not dismissing Metaphysical syllogism that or...
-Well the definition is wrong or vague at best. First of all there isn't such a thing as A scientific method. There are many methodologies in science ...
1. Objective, independent verification is one of core scientific standards used in the evaluation of all theoretical framework. If that says nothing t...
First of all the title of the thread is scientifically wrong in relation to the opening statement. Darwin's framework describes the origins of the div...
Last time I checked this was a philosophy forum, not a truth forum. How is this red herring useful? By default, unfalsifiable claims have an unknown t...
-"The question of the origin of existence still persists. It won't go away by ignoring it or accepting it. It is the crux given unto man. To venture i...
-So....not a fan of abstract reasoning, huh?" -No problem with abstract reasoning as long as the concepts are defined and they are real. -"Science is ...
Metaphysics can be the base of our Scientific and Philosophical hypotheses.Conspiracy theories can never be that. There is good an bad Metaphysics. Fo...
-"The predicate of existence: did it come from nothing, something else entirely, God? What caused existence to be, and why?" Let me first answer your ...
-"I'd like to talk about a central metaphysical idea, which has been called 'consciousness' and 'transcendental ego' and 'pure witness.' This is not t...
-"As I mentioned, nature has had billions of years on billions of stars to hit on something like that. It happens by chance. Because it can. There isn...
-"Every emergentist theory of consciousness I have come across associates consciousness with some kind of gradually emergent process or function. I ca...
-"Consciousness does not admit of degree All process or functions admit of degree Therefore consciousness cannot be a process or function." -First of ...
-"What would qualify as a 'solid reason'? " -An objective verification of mind properties existing independent of biological brains. Like any other cl...
Panpsychism can not provide any answers. Its a superstitious worldview not a Philosophical conclusion based on credible epistemology. Its more like an...
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