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If you have no identity, you don't exist, right? Your are like a mirror? You only reflect back some other being's face? When there's no being before y...

Your parents carried your dna long before you were born. There would be no you without it. So, did you start to be before you were born? We've been ta...

Do you think you began with your parent's dna combined at fertilization? If not, where and when did you begin? If p?q, does q begin at p? If not, wher...

Yes, I do. I characterize zero as strategic absence within math. It's function also extends to what I call, "not yet, but presently accountable." This...

Can we conclude that presently AI differs from human cognition fundamentally in one obvious way? The difference is that humans, unlike AI, perceive an...

Yes, this is another claim I can use to argue the possibility of eternal universe.

Why do you think you're exempt from providing a supporting argument to your declarations? Our dialectical debate has something in common with a courtr...

If your "quantum uncertainty" is alternate wording for "quantum vacuum" with its altering energy and virtual particles bound by physical laws, then we...

If you assume a universe with no opening never existed, then you think a universe that opens was preceded by nothing, (this stipulated on the basis of...

My argument is the self-evident argument to which you refer. I don't imagine myself presenting original thinking. I'm recognizing that the self-eviden...

I say that, "One cannot reason to existence." Reasoning presupposes existence, however. As for concluding existence cannot be proven, I'm less sanguin...

Descartes declares, "I think, therefore I am." He does this in order to launch a chain of reasoning towards the conclusion: "God's existence is necess...

This is a natural way to proceed with your life, not strictly by faith, but instead with understanding included. I belong to this set. There are but f...

You seem to be saying math and logic have no practical applications. Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem ended Hilbert's project for organizing all math lo...

Let's suppose all of your scriptural investigations are correct: all of your encounters have been with religious texts that are demonstrable fictions....

Not so because, given the example of an automobile as a system, we see that the main purpose is transportation. Transportation is the top priority, ho...

I agree.

It's saying that as long as you're Ciceronianus, you can't step outside of being Ciceronianus. What're your thoughts on this question?

I think an eternal universe has no opening. What do you think?

I'm of two minds on this one: a) If the not sayable exists, then of course one should not waste time in the folly of blathering on; b) As Robert Brown...

This is a good argument and I've no quarrel with it. I don't posit God existing in solitude prior to the universe. I agree there's no something from n...

Tomorrow, I will focus on irrationality in the sense of an irrational number like pi, which is non-ending, non-repeating and can't be expressed as a r...

Your example, like calculus, doesn't finalize the comprehension of the infinite series. The approximation forever stands "as if." To the extent your i...

This sentence is a performative contradiction. You use explanation to make a declaration about the prohibition of explanation. Whether it's an infinit...

That because we ask the question, "Why not nothing?" there is not nothing means the question creates a tautology we can't escape. The insuperability o...

What you say is true within the constraining context of statistics. Statistical random sampling methods and their margins of error accommodate chance ...

Given system as you define it above, consider that it's the totality of parts acting in harmony towards a purpose. Now, suppose that only some of the ...

If X#÷^@WVH isn't gibberish, then please tell me what it says. I see the conjunction operator, but the terms on either side of it are unknown to me.

Are we compelled to say, "Nothing isn't an option." because our perspective is constrained by our insuperable immersion within being? The problem of p...

Terse and very much to the point. Thanks for posting this. I'm inclined to think stuff is its own source of causality because causality involves symme...

What you say about the modus ponens chain of reasoning is correct. As for the timeline of our universe, what do you make of a timeline bidirectionally...

This is helpful info. It bolsters my inclination to believe our sensory input is not entirely self-enclosed.

Carl Sagan speculated about our universe being eternal. When does eternity begin?

All of this arises from your insuperable immersion in existence. Your argument boils down to saying, "Existence must be because it is." The problem, a...

Okay. Demonstrable fictions stand some distance away from gibberish. Demonstrable fictions have premises that can be true or false. Okay. As I take in...

Do you believe facts, which are narratives, lie trapped within language? Given such a situation, how can you think we can know and understand the worl...

Yes, I presumed someone was asking the question, "Why is there not nothing?" This question, asked a long time ago, is the impetus for my OP. I'm not a...

You can help me by elaborating some of the details of your mathematical and logical disappointments experienced while reading my OP. As you may have s...

When you propound your anti-theism, are you wont to say theistic texts are gibberish? I've heard your claim theism is empty. Voiding the claims of the...

No AI text posted by me. Expertise and its authority are hard won over years of dedicated work entailing sacrifices. Yes, the experts deserve my respe...

I'll go along with saying, "Questions constrain our answers." Let's suppose each question specifies a field providing a limited context which the answ...

I'm not sure the points you make are simple. You say I've jazzed up what you've communicated. By that do you mean I've exaggerated the range and scope...

Let's review our conversation: you understand the universal system has a unique purpose. That's your statement about system, and my understanding of s...

You say the universal system has a unique purpose. My definition is similar: a group of parts that work together to achieve a purpose, like the parts ...

You seem to be saying that the value of religion is distinct from evidence, facts, logic, experimental verification and behavioral norms. Let's suppos...

In the above, are you articulating a type of pragmatism? If you are linking religious value with practical results, is it not necessary for you to emb...

When I read this, I got the impression that by "Universal System" you meant the super-system and that by "the rest of the system" you meant one or mor...

Regarding the above, please show me where I'm mis-reading you.

As I read you, the rest of the system is a subset of the universal system. If so, then given that the universal system has members a, b, and c, let’s ...

I take this to be your way of saying that God has unjustifiable biases in favor of certain preferred populations. I offer no defense of this apologist...