There's something subjective about entropy. The statistical argument for entropy goes like this: 1. There's only one particular arrangement of particl...
@"InPitzotl" Nothing can't be caused for there's nothing to cause. The first cause can't be caused. Both the first cause and nothing are uncaused. How...
I suppose there's room enough in IIT for a lot of weird conclusions: crystals e.g. by virtue of the "interconnectedness" of their molecules/atoms and ...
If nothing is being reified and seeing that it's true that nothing is uncaused, the problem then lies in the first cause argument - it necessitates a ...
Premise 1 can't be denied. The sticking point is 2. I'll dial down the rhetoric and offer a more realistic argument: 1. The first cause is uncaused. 2...
I was offering a theo-technological point of view - God as the creator of the universe (the coder who created the simulation). It seems my thesis imme...
The universe follows the so-called laws of nature. Laws are akin to if not actual instructions on how nature should behave. Instructions are given in ...
Are viruses alive? This puzzle is very much like what Richard Dawkins (atheist + evolutionary biologist + author) - the originator of the meme concept...
1. The first cause has to be uncaused. 2. Only nothing has no cause. Ergo, 3. The first cause is nothing. 4. Nothing can't cause anything Ergo, 5. The...
Last I checked, genes, and their components DNA/RNA, constitute a language. The bases - Adenine (A), Thymine (T), Cytosine (C), Guanine (G) - are the ...
What do you mean? The brain in a vat scenario is possible, no? It is an instance of exploring what I refer to as the possibility space (self-explanato...
My question is simple: If it doesn't matter, it doesn't seem to, that humanity be grouped into various factions holding opposing, contradictory belief...
:up: I had a different opinion up until I read what you wrote! Now where did I read that? :chin: Why are farmers so far down the Hackliste? Did you kn...
Intuition seem to be more of an emotion - it feels right/it feels wrong. Logic - it's right/it's wrong. That's why I alwats felt/believed that realiza...
An example will perhaps illustrate the difference between intuition and logic: Say you visit a store to buy some things. You're not paying attention (...
Now that you mention it, yes! I can't tell whether one informs the other though. Intriguingly, qualia - the ineffable aspect of morally relevant exper...
I see your point - the rules I follow when I'm the only one around will be different from when I live in a community. One could even say that as a lon...
@"Banno" 1. Why must you be good to others? 2. Because others can be happy (good) and sad (bad). 3. I, a hermit in the Carpathian mountains, can be ha...
:lol: I'm not sure how to get my point across but let's look at two well-known theories of morality: 1. Utilitarianism: The Greatest Happiness Princip...
Yes, welfare would, inter alia, include a long, fulfilling life and happiness too. As these would be considerations one will, for certain, factor in o...
I beg to differ. Where there's life, wellbeing is an issue and wellbeing is just another name for ethics. Being alive, a solitary individual has a mor...
But, our own health? My stand is that ethics is about life, how we treat it. A loner has life. Ergo, he's obligated to be ethical towards himself. Hea...
N = The number of times a similar situation was the case (before) n = The number of times war broke out P(W) = the probability of a Sino-US all out wa...
@"DingoJones" I'm not saying there's no difference in the way you treat others and the way you treat yourself - the latter is characterized by more fr...
\uparrow is extremely important. There's a lie-truth-belief asymmetry. Suppose there are 3 people X, Y, and Z 1. If X tells the truth, I'd be a fool t...
I'm just all stoked by the fact that the present migration patterns more or less match the prehistoric migration patterns taken by our human ancestors...
I would hope so! "What are the odds?" is clearly a mathematical question and I've given some hints on how we might be able to actually get our hands o...
When we destroy something, anything, we create a mess. We can clean up the mess and create something with it. I think this is just a very ancient way ...
To tell you frankly, I don't see a problem with physics. What's the difference between a stone and the effects of a stone? They're, in my book, the sa...
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