If there's a button that a bored simulation coder can press to unleash hell on earth, I believe we humans are at the means by which that button will b...
In logic the emphasis is on how to think about anything not just reality. The title of your thread is "Logic is the world of possibilities..." and tha...
On the face of it, your argument makes sense. We have two materially identical people but each one is a different person in the two worlds. So, in the...
First of all, we've to come to terms with a simple fact - we are the nastiest lifeforms the planet earth has. We have a poor track record when it come...
The OP seems to be concerned about whether your philosopher's prescription above is the right medicine for what ails us. For my money, I'd say our und...
An apology is in order then. Sorry. I must've gotten carried away by certain suggestive statements in your post. Well, speaking from an evolutionary s...
:rofl: Reminds me of the joke about how a priest talks to his congregation about god first creating Adam, the first man, and then Eve, the first woman...
You're approaching the issue from an academic perspective; wisdom is being looked upon as a course you can choose in a college curriculum just like ma...
We wouldn't have known that one choice that's available to us is we "...eventually have to settle for axioms..." if the skeptics hadn't asked the ques...
Let's face it. We're predators. Some even go so far as to say we're apex predators. If that's true do we have a choice in the matter? Methinks we're m...
It's just skepticism doing what it does best - cast doubt on everything whenever and wherever possible. The fact is, and that's the gist of the skepti...
I don't think there are experts of such caliber that they possess 100% or total knowledge of their respective fields. Add to this the inherent uncerta...
Well, if I were to offer an option it would have to do with the intuition that actions can't be moral just because god commands it. There's a reflexiv...
"...that are supernatural forces that make moral realism true..." is just a variation on the theme of divine morality. You're deferring moral authorit...
I thought Euthypro's dilemma had decisively undermined the relationship between morality and god. Either god is or isn't the authority on morality. If...
More or less, yes. The reigning consensus on what a wise person is seems to be that of a go-to person for answers and solutions to our questions and p...
A telling point. :up: Is the universe itself left-wing or right-wing? Does mother nature provide the right environment for "...freedom, equality, frat...
I couldn't have put it better. Wisdom exists only in an environment of imperfection, imperfections of knowledge (varying levels of ignorance), imperfe...
So, the coronavirus that cause the ongoing pandemic is "out of habit"? That we can treat tuberculosis with the specific drugs that kill the causative ...
Point to note, Aristotle's first cause is simply a cause that got the ball rolling which led to the creation of the universe and that cause was god fo...
@"Wayfarer" So, there has to be someone who causes the goal whether by chance or not. Similarly, there has to be something that causes the universe wh...
What do you mean it's a "figure of speech"? Do you mean that when I say "the universe was created by chance" I mean something other than the literal m...
Teleology isn't necessarily an attribute of a god-created universe. God is seen as the cause that made what is a possible universe (ours) a reality wh...
To both of you Well, "chance" is the wrong word if you want to talk about the absence of teleology because chance is an aspect of the teleological too...
I'm not suggesting intelligent design is the only other choice for us. All I'm saying is that chance offered as an alternative to a creator-god doesn'...
My worry is that determinism could be masquerading as will-power. The top result when you do a google search for "will-power" says that it's strong de...
But you don't get it. The fact that you consider our existing condition as just one in which we have to deal with, as you said, "the limits of our fre...
My hunch, for what it's worth, is that all this talk of "life is an outcome of chance" by scientists and their ilk is, far from being even half an exp...
A cursory read of the Wikipedia entry on Wittgenstein's private language informs me that Wittgenstein or his band of followers, as the case may be, is...
Oh! Sorry. Didn't see it. Damn! My humble apologies. I see. I provided you with an inside view - the internal workings of X's and Y' minds - and so, t...
This is exactly what I've been grappling with for quite some time. We say that cars and elephants exist but that unicorns and god do not. Isn't that w...
:ok: Will-power. I'm having trouble understanding will-power. What is it exactly? There are two ways of looking at will-power: 1. It's an ability, a "...
Is life a fluke? I remember an a senior in college once telling me that the evidence for god is the order that's apparent in the universe. I was young...
A fresh perspective to an old issue. If it were up to me i.e. if I were the coder I would want the simulated people to possess real, objective liberti...
You're trying to reconcile the intentions behind actions and the consequences of actions because they happen to be in opposing camps in the scenario y...
One critique of private language, perhaps its a variation of Wittgenstein's own original, is that there's no possible means to ensure consistency, an ...
You're talking of knowledge in a narrow sense - a particular speciality like nuclear physics is knowledge alright but it isn't the kind of knowledge w...
Google definition of "freedom": the power or right to act, speak, or think as one wants. Freedom is precisely how it's been defined but the actual sit...
Well, what I've noticed is gender-identity assumes a definite form - I'm male/female as the case may be - at a very young age, much too young for soci...
Mind male = someone who thinks "I'm a male". Mind female = someone who thinks "I'm a female". Mind ambiguous = someone who thinks "I'm male AND female...
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