Something + 1 = Something? Something = 9 9 + 1 = 9? :chin: So, you mean to say there's something (remember it has to be a finite number) such that tha...
Be inventive, unleash your creativity. What is the answer that makes the most sense? I'll give you some options: 1. Something 2. Nothing 3. Infinity 4...
Label-wise doesn't do the trick. Nothing is not any thing. Labels are things and so can't be Nothing. As I said, Nothing isn't/can't be a concept, in ...
I see. So, Nothing is like zero. But Nothing isn't like zero. Try solving the equation x = x + 1. Is it zero or is it Nothing? Are the two the same? Z...
Yes but that's my opinion. Every immoral thought/speech/act can be reduced to a contradiction, in Kant's moral theory, of the kind I demonstrated in m...
Hi Bitter Crank. You must've met neoteny at some point in your life. It's the biological phenomenon in which the life cycle of an organism is complete...
Maybe...maybe...the Fibonacci sequence has something to do with optimizing. The sunflower video is about packing the most amount of florets in the ava...
Well, @"Jack Cummins", I'm in agreement with you regarding the categorical imperative - it basically says that if the answer to "what if everybody did...
The Fibonacci sequence is reportedly making an appearance in nature in all sorts of weird places. I remember watching a video which was about the way ...
I believe the author of the QUORA post is conflating two kinds of truths. Fae is basically equivocating with the following two kinds of truths: 1. Tru...
Black as coal but I'm what people might call an eternal optimist. Hoping it's some kind of yin-yang thing and white, even greyish will do, will follow...
I do get your point. However, Nothing, as a concept, isn't the same as the concept Tree. Let me try another way of arguing my point. 1. Nothing can't ...
Yes, that's an important point I'm grappling with at the moment. The concept is different to the thing the concept is about. For instance the concept ...
I wouldn't go that far. The author probably means that there's no such thing as THE TRUTH by which I mean to refer to that ever elusive, all-encompass...
To argue that truth doesn't exist is to have as a conclusion the statement, T = Truth doesn't exist. The question that naturally follows is, is T true...
So, when there's a whole car there are no parts and when there are parts there's no car? So, when the car is being assembled piece by piece the souls ...
Premise 1: Everything has a soul (panpsychism) Premise 2: Everything about a car (its parts and the car whole) is a thing Conclusion: The parts of a c...
It depends on whether the memory in question poses a threat to someone, including but not limited to the person whose memory it is. I have a lot of ba...
I got this gem of a definition from Merriam-Webster. Utopia (noun): 1. A place of ideal perfection especially in laws, government, and social conditio...
No problem. I had some ideas that needed a sounding board; I suppose you had similar intentions. I'll leave the discussion now, much wiser than I was ...
Complete synesthesia or fivefold synesthesia is different to what I'm talking about. Synesthetes with fivefold synesthesia experience different sensor...
Well, I suppose I deduced from the original claim of panpsychists which is that everything has a soul/mind. Parts are things, so, they have souls/mind...
1. Neo: I have a mental image of Trinity. It's a memory. 2. Agent Smith: How do you know it's a memory and not an imagination. 3. Neo: It's a memory b...
I get the impression that a lot of people misunderstand hedonism or is it just me? You be the judge. I used to think hedonism is all about pleasure an...
Do you have a refutation for my argument? By the way thanks for reminding me of false memories and confabulation. It fits perfectly in with my argumen...
A small tidbit from many years of painful and painstaking research - food is the only thing that stimulates all five senses. Food can be touched (with...
There seems to be a deep and hidden meaning to masturbation. What is masturbation after all? Isn't it a poor quality simulation of sex and what is sex...
By the way, just to spice things up, to open a new avenue for discussion, I'd like to point out that the question "why is panpsychism popular?" commit...
I see but here's the deal. If I say everything has a soul/mind, what does everything mean? Necessarily that nature is organized - simpler stuff combin...
So, since, as per panpsychism, only things have mind/souls, a part can't have one since, after all, it isn't even a thing to begin with. So a soul is ...
This is a an extremely important observation in my opinion but it's probably something that comes out of a reading that's peculiar to me. Let's, for s...
Where does medicine figure in your conception of technology? With readily availble analgesics, antibiotics, and other kinds of drugs, a death warrant ...
Continuing along the same line of thinking viz. that panpsychism commits the fallacy of composition/division, consider a 4 meter wooden plank. In acco...
Now that you mention it, I recall someone saying, "it's society's fault" and I'm not sure whether fae meant it in a way that you seem to be implying t...
A part has a necessary relationship with other parts that all together go into constituting the whole. A thing is just a thing, anything, and there ar...
As far as I can tell, Hamza Tzortzis in his debate with Lawrence Krauss brings to the fore science's most embarrassing character flaw in a manner of s...
Self-discovery assumes there's a self and that there's something to be discovered about the self and, most importantly, that it's something one would ...
What strikes me as odd about panpsychism is that it ignores the whole-part distinction. To be clear, panpsychism is the claim that "everything has a s...
"Science is a wholly owned subsidiary of materialism", said someone. This is vindicated by Laplace's famous, "I had no need for that hypothesis" retor...
Is this not an argument? To answer question 1 in your (our) favor means confirmation that the MCD record is correct (in the sense is a true record of ...
To have categories like false memories and confabulation suggests that there are true memories and my aim in this thread is to demonstrate that there ...
Isn't this impossible? The essence of thinking is mentalistic if I understand the term correctly. To then attempt to define thinking in a non-mentalis...
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