TheMadFool

Suits me. Truth be told, insofar as all that we have in, what we call, our minds - a mental image - is concerned, there's no difference between the se...

Everything depends on what a friendly disposition is. It involves high moral standards i.e. deep knowledge of right and wrong. Granted that a dying st...

Let's look at it from another point of view. At any single moment in time when you think of yourself as conscious what exactly are the contents of you...

What I find interesting is how Daniel Dennett's claim, if he did indeed make that claim, that consciousness is an illusion squares with the notion of ...

Therein lies the rub. Matter, energy, and the laws that govern them are treated as physical. They are known to exist because they're percievable. How ...

Physicalism is a theory about our universe. It's an attempt to describe the universe as accurately as possible. In other words there's pressure for ph...

You're missing the point. The rules and board setup of chess are indeed arbitrary and the universe could be too whether a creator exists or not. Howev...

That's odd. Chess is an invention; naturally, everything about it is arbitrary - for instance, the rules are the way they are because the inventor sai...

I presume Because :ok: :up:

I did a volte-face! Check out the OP. It's a bit too long for my liking and I'm sure you won't have the time so I'll summarize it for you here. Defini...

@"khaled"@"Wayfarer" I made some changes to my post? if you're interested https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/476568

You seem to have answered your own question but do give the following argument some consideration. 1. If our brains shut down then our consciousness c...

Art, to me, is a luxury in the sense it comes after, much after, the basic form has been attained. For instance, look at the evolution of vehicles. Th...

This is an entirely new line of inquiry and you seem to ask this question as if a perceiver is necesssary for perceiving but you draw this conclusion ...

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This amounts to rejecting statement 4. To be perceivable -> To be physical. Please go through my argument which I've summarized below for khaled. Well...

Yes. They can be seen, i.e. perceived, in action in the way matter and energy behave. I suppose one needs to think of "perception" in the broadest sen...

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I'd like to bounce this off the two of you: 1. IF It's real THEN It's physical (Physicalism) 2. IF It's detectable (find) THEN It's physical (Pfhorres...

Well, I can't say I completely understood you but it makes sense at some level. What you call ethical work is, if I catch your drift, the place where ...

I don't know who the 1% are but wealth seems to violate two known physical laws: 1. The second law of thermodynamics (entropy): Money distributed shou...

This is premise 2. It's impossible for a person to act in a way that doesn't benefit faerself of the argument in the OP and I don't contest it. What I...

Fae = He/She Faer = Him/Her Faers = His/Hers Faerself = Himself/Herself I picked up these unisex/gender ambiguous pronouns from a website.

Sorry, I don't follow. Are there molecular intentions as contrasted with atomic ones? My guess is you're making a reference to the complexity of the m...

Are you referring to my attempt to, in what in the eyes of many will appear not only disgusting but also in complete contradiction to the spirit of mo...

My two cents worth: The way it seems to me, the scientific method operates at two levels: Step 1. Detecting patterns in observational data and giving ...

What I've tried to do or what I feel is the correct no-nonsense interpretation of cooperation is that it ultimately is about sharing resources. Whethe...

I didn't do anything. Talk to the person who thought that light travelled instantaneously.

My only concern with your post has to do with your comment on units being arbitrary, especially you mentioning about how the speed of light could be e...

I'm fully aware of the division by zero but you seem to be ignoring the fact that it's implied by assuming light travels instantaneously or has infini...

I read the rest of your remarks and :rofl: :rofl:

The division by zero is implied by assuming light travels instantaneously. Instantaneous means time taken = 0. Speed = distance/time and if one claims...

That's the point. Division by zero is undefined. Thinking that the speed of light is infinite amounts to dividing by zero. There's no other way for sp...

Is the universe mathematical?

That's precisely the point. Infinite speed breaks mathematics and thus the "mathematical" proof. For light to travel instantaneously, t = 0 for any di...

Competition and Cooperation are two sides of the same coin. I'll frame these two notions in terms of resource consumption: 1. Cooperation: individuals...

I suppose the matter of "everything is..." is settled then. I agree with you on all counts. Thanks. Coming to the issue of selfishness/selflessness, m...

I'm not sure about how much of your theory I understand but in my humble opinion, there seems to be complication with "the principle of least action"....

Thanks for your reply. Much appreciated. I want to run something by you if you don't mind. F = everything is selfish Put statement F in the context of...

So, a robot that can plug itself to a power socket and recharge its batteries, it would be a living thing? After all, it's increasing its potential en...

delete. Thanks.

The mathematical symbol for approximation consists of two "~" stacked on top of each other.

No problem. You mean to basically say that which is common is that which is uncommon. In other words, the similarity, the essence, we're looking for i...

I was afraid you might ask. :smile: It seems to have a specific meaning in the Abrahamic religions but in the context of my post it simply means reali...

Why? What's there to be lost about? I didn't say that there's no category. All I said was that the category of ultimate reality can only be described ...

For me, there are two kinds of bad arguments: 1. The soldier: Overtly apparent. Means business. Carries a loaded weapon clearly visible and pointed at...

Laozi quotes that struck a chord in me: The meanings of the two quotes above gibe with each other quite well in my opinion. The Nameless is what I tak...

Indeed, you're right but here's how I look at it. A question has been asked viz. "what is the value of x?" The bottomline is the answer has to be quan...

Really? I didn't expect that! Great! I would've liked to hear your side of the story though.

Why can't you answer the question, what is the value of x? It's a rather simple question. I'll pare down the options to make it easier. 1. x can be so...