TheMadFool

Deepity Incorrect. For there are cases when no change occurs but time still passes by. However, it seems, on such occasions, a case can be made that t...

Thanks for the gentle reminder. From the perspective that I had suggested in that previous thread, dualism would be an illusion for each pair of oppos...

That's a different kind of change, not the kind I'm talking about. Also, "...wood to tile..." isn't actually change, right. Would you say, for instanc...

Physics is concerned with two issues in my humble opinion: First comes description of the way matter behaves - patterns in the way matter interacts wi...

:rofl: That's all I could manage with the little that I know. I would like you to clarify a matter that's been bothering me for quite some time now. I...

1. If you come at it from a position that's contradiction-friendly, I have nothing more to say. By the way, is there a contradiction? I intuit there i...

A few things I want you two to shed light on. 1. I'm not quite sure of this but I've been told Buddhism is identified more as a mystical tradition rat...

I sat down beside the woman I loved. It was late evening, the sun was hanging low on the horizon, and I was spellbound by the play of light across tha...

Descartes was, I believe, a dyed-in-the-wool, true blue, rationalist - for this Frenchman who, unfortunately died of pneumonia while attempting to tut...

:up: I will never get to the bottom of the problem. I don't even remember what the problem was. Just vague thoughts on possible routes to solving it. ...

I should've paid more attention in university. There was a course in, I think, community medicine (no, I'm not a health professional) and we had to st...

When it works or is valid under any and all contexts.

I was led to believe that different worlviews are mutually incompatible i.e. it would be quite a (mental) feat to have them sit at the same table and ...

Indeed you have. Much appreciated. If god exists, god bless and if he doesn't, good luck to you. I'll reply if I can think of anything worth spilling ...

Maybe the choice of words can be pinned down to woolly thinking but, setting poor judgment aside, I daresay a lot of philosophy has, at there foundati...

To be honest, I'm not saying they are; I'm, as they say, clinging to a mere possibility. By the way, I want to bounce something off of you. My OP prov...

As I've heard people say, "all roads lead to Rome". If Rome is your destination (the value), and there are multiple ways of getting there, it would be...

Who's to say that all thought, even thoughts that are frank contradictions, aren't mathematically describable. That possibility shakes the very founda...

Well, I was coming at it from the well-known fact that though a mind makes a firm decision to die (suicide), the body resists (gasping for air, body w...

:ok: But...when someone says "dualism" I think of a humble coin with 2 sides but when I hear "perspective" the image that forms in my mind is that of ...

I have always struggled with the concept of dualism and the last time I gave it any consideration led me to the conclusion that it's about opposites a...

You have a point but the two arguments that I brought to your attention are not restricted to a single perspective; they're true from all angles..

Starting point: Cogito ergo sum Another starting point: T = There are no truths. T can't be true because then it's, self-contradictory. T has to be fa...

My thoughts exactly.

Why bring it up then? We are, after all, discussing physically identical objects (p-zombies and human beings)? We should be comparing two laptops (bot...

Bad theology? Are you sure you're not conflating bad arguments with theology unless of course theology is the very embodiment of irrationality? What a...

I' not sure but that blade cuts both ways - are you sure that we are.

I doubt that the self can be equated to consciousness because within a framework that entertains the possibility of souls, there are periods (between ...

A laptop in sleep mode is simpler of course and that actually proves the point that given a certain level of complexity, a simpler stage/state is a gi...

I haven't the faintest idea what you're talking about. My point is simple: causality is about cause and effect and ethics is just an extension of caus...

Explain yourself first.

It's my supicion, well-founded or not (you be the judge), that the entire story of ethics and the self, rides on the simpler notion of causality. An e...

There seems to be asymmetry that needs to be made explicit: we don't need a reason to live as much as we need one to die. It can be said that the defa...

Good attempt but tusks are nothing more than overgrown teeth.

A true contradiction that I connect with is: I'm living & I'm dying. I'm living because here I am typing on my phone & I'm dying because, with each pa...

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Well, AWOL is better than KIA.

Could you expand a little?

What's silly about it? A black & white photograph is simpler than a color photograph. More parts, more complex. Less parts, less complex.

I edited my life :rofl: under duress :rofl: Life, it seems, is half an experiment (as of now that is) because 1) all the data is available for collect...

You're basically claiming p-zombies are impossible and Leibniz's identity of indiscernibles, the second component of his theory of identity, is contro...

All women are, for better or worse, out or my league. I think women want the same things men want. Further, I'm reminded of the question, "do minds ha...

1. Why do planets orbit the sun? Gravity. 2. How does gravity do that? It bends space A causal argument has, among other things, two components viz. a...

Aren't you drawing a distinction without a difference? I mean an image of a boabab tree in a giraffe's mind and the word "boabab" in a human's mind ar...

Sorry but I remain unconvinced by your objection. Please bear with me. Which is simpler, a brain or a conscious brain? Doesn't matter if it's physical...

What about mutes, especially those with congenital total speech deficits? Are you saying what I think you're saying?

So giraffes can't think since they have no vocal cords? :chin:

I beg to differ. Look at the p-zombie argument: 1. IF physicalism is true THEN p-zombies are impossible. 2. P-zombies are possible Ergo, 3. Physicalis...

How so? I didn't assume that p-zombies are possible. I simply worked my way to the conclusion that p-zombies are from the fact that if a certain level...

Determinism can be true only if everything has a cause but the belief that everything has a cause is based on inductive reasoning but inductive reason...