GraveItty

What about hunting sport? The animal shot is dead or not.

Indeed! God doesn't need time to create the universe, even if it is a temporal infinite one, as I think. This is the problem of modern physical attemp...

Are there limited amounts availabe of a progressive content? This question presupposes a progressive content. A progressive content grows. So the amou...

That's true. But, as you can read, Xenophanes didn't like them and turned into an abstract 1. Existing independently from as and being the only true o...

Of course indeed! It's very logical. It has to be. If not, structures wouldn't have the possibility to evolve into life. I'm not familiar with muscle ...

The origin of western religion was connected once to the notion of abstract formal systems, which constituted the major part of ancient philosophy. Lo...

Creativity doesn't evolve. The very process of evolving is a creative process. Creativity is going on all of the time. Also in the SF-field. There are...

I disagree. Western religion has its origins in old Greece, a country more philosophical than others. Xenophanes replaced the concrete poly by an abst...

The view of @"Bartricks" is mind centered. It's all about the mind. I guess his mind is a great one. But what's so special about it? It can be free, i...

Of course they can. They are omnipotent. They are bound though by the possibilities. If they could do everything, they can do nothing. If you can't li...

I'm very pessimistic. The only way out would be a president who orders the placing of solar panels on every rooftop within a week, closes all carbon-e...

Consciousness simply can't be explained. Only experienced. There is an information horizon in the sense you can't envision you whole brain, as the ima...

I tend to consider this as poetry! In a positive way, I mean! Great.

I Googled but couldn't find data about it. I think the virus approach is best in the short run. I think modern science has a pretty distorted picture ...

I don't agree. Why should it? I like creativity, but I don't consider it crucial. In the sciences it welcome, But if one want to stick to the status q...

Here I totally agree. Philosophy should be a means to set us free from the tyranny of Truth as practiced by science. I don't need philosophy though to...

But a connection between the two is obviously there. If I experience whatever conscious quality, then there is a material counterpart in the brain. Th...

I'm not sure I understand the bodily memory. Do you think the very recognizing is a kind of relapsing into an earlier state?

Interesting articles! Seems they fit my bill. Thanks! :smile:

I think this is the answer!

I wanted to write exactly the same!

I want to understand memory. I understand it, of course. But I don't understand why it is said that it's an unknown phenomenon, scientifically. What h...

Just look at the units.

What does it matter if the will is free or not? What matters is that others don't put their will on it. That can make the will unfree.

To the impression one had before. There are no two different images of a face I see. Though the face leaves a trace in the brain. A pattern of least r...

It's nice the body is involved here. If I see a face there is a neuronal process. Say I look steadily at the face. There are pathways strengenth. A pa...

That's something I mean exactly! I'll contemplate it.

A pity. You had some constructive critique, so beloved in philosophy (though philosophy is more than the invention of abstract formal systems).

If I don't know if it's true, then why shouldn't I say it? Kinda funny attitude. But scientifically sound, no doubt. Oh, the memory doesn't compare in...

It's a fact that the memory doesn't function like storing data on a computer. It's nonsense to claim the memory contains a zillion bytes of informatio...

So? Why shouldn't I say that? And why shouldn't science, from physics to neuro-biology, and math be included on this forum? Math is the ultimate abstr...

Where did I say that? Again, you put the words into my thread.

That's what you say. Of course there is. Introspection for example is non-scientific. Even philosophical. Besides, why should science not be included ...

There is no solution to be found in the materialistic approach. Though you can relate, for example, color, forms therein, the changing of them in spac...

I'm not looking for a scientific explanation. I already have one. I'm looking for a philosophical one. What makes a face famiar? What does it mean tha...

Again, and it's tiring a bit, you don't understand. I'm a quite patient guy but sometimes I can't understand why people don't see the obvious. I don't...

Of course. Knowing the truth about a lemon icecream helps in decision making when it comes to choose a taste.

Already here we disagree. Of course scientist bring the examples of vaccines, airplanes, computers, TV's, or whatever fruits hanging on the trees of s...

Personal experience. It's not a general rule though in many cases one can only tell after the choice if the choice had made sense. I know it makes per...

Incompleteness. Math has a fatal flaw. Veritasium. I liked it.

Beforehand we can only guess. Àfterwards we know.

The greatfull dead.

Good to read! And, what's your impression about it?

There are numerous differences. If you know women, you should know. You want to get to know them?

Like I said, there is no intrinsic mind. Okay, when you look at brainprocesses you can say so. But even these can always be connected to a body they a...

The world would be saved. Nature could recover from the numerous stabs, injections, cuttings, damage, and torture for getting questions about her. She...

Who says I define it intrinsically? You do. I not.

Now that's a perceptive observation! :up:

Of course it does. If my visionary system is partially damaged I might not be able to see forms anymore. Though I retain the perception of color or mo...

I didn't say that. I said their gender is determined by the gender of the bodies they are in.