TheMadFool

You must've glossed over some of my posts. Let me ask you a few questions: 1. What is success in evolutionary terms? 2. If a species goes extinct is i...

Right! That's for certain, uncertain. I seem to have misinterpreted your point, a good one at that. Anyway...it looks like you're not denying the exis...

A brainteaser I'm going to keep at a safe distance (for my sake). Another brainteaser. I made a request for the technically accurate term. This number...

Since you've raised doubts regarding my interpretation of the hard problem, I'd like to hear yours if that's alright with you. Thanks.

Curves! I can see curves! I think I'm being childish. Ignore me.

Forgive the circumlocution. I'm the kind of person who scratches faer right ear with the left hand. :grin: To that my reply is simple: intelligence-wi...

Do you have a favorite koan? The only one I can remember is this:

I want to run something by you if it's not too much of a bother. If memory serves, Ch'an is Zen in Japanese Buddhism, right? I remember my early encou...

Not sure. Just stating the official position on the matter. Why do you ask? Did you, by any chance, happen to see anything that contradicts me?

Give me an instance of it and I'll switch sides. :up: The problem is that an "argument" is the opposite of something that "doesn't impact anyone else"...

This is the way I understand the hard problem of consciousness: Imagine an experiment in which a robot with a pressure sensor and yourself are seated ...

Describe the life history of a pattern. Imagine I drop a pebble into a calm pond. Describe the wave pattern.

Lies can be comforting and the problem is lies can lead to disastrous consequences. The problem is what comforts someone could spell faers doom. I sup...

My two cents: Regarding thoughts, here understood to mean propositions and the method by which their truths are established , there are two things to ...

But I can see curves in the diagram?!

I don't know. I suppose nobody does. In fact, given solipsism, forget consciousness, even the very existential reality of anything not-self is in doub...

This is a waste of your time...I'll say no more. Thanks for your comments though.

Let's, for my sake, stick to gravity and its effect on space-time. Gravity can bend space, right? Does that mean with the right amount of gravity we c...

What's the alternative?

That wouldn't be a problem in my opinion. NDE, if it turns out that there are such things as souls, is relevant to metaphysics, ontology, philosophy o...

To both of you While the subject of visions and premonitions fascinates me to no end, I'm, to my relief, not the type who'd experience such phenomena....

So, time can be circular then?

Firstly, your explanation for the want paradox is just a case of bending/breaking the rules of language. There being two aspects to language I'm famil...

That's all I need to hear. Good luck! Explorer!

Nice! Care to share? Your experiences? I think I remember something now. Even back then, when I was teenager-20's, I was especially drawn to what I ca...

To tell you the truth, memory is not going to aid us in distinguishing the past from the future simply because, in terms of the experience of recall, ...

Just so you know, I'm very drawn to mysticism and the like and, to my regret, it's been extremely unproductive. That said, it wasn't like I put my bac...

I understand and can relate to that but isn't it having it both ways. If both the failure and success in one's duty is acceptable then, as some would ...

Why not? Is it because you think it's pointless or because it's a tough nut to crack? In both cases, explain yourself if I may be so bold as to ask.

Did you read my post?

What I've discovered is this: suffering pushes, shoves in fact, people with greater force toward god than the happiness pulls, draws, us toward god. T...

To each his own then!

Krishnamurti seems to be, dare I say, under some misconception then. First he asks for real criticism which, to my reckoning, seems to recommend ratio...

Yeah!

Well, to be frank, he says sensible stuff; it's just the way he says it that's the problem. I've known this for as long as I can remember and I still ...

Notice how the arms race is evolving. It seems that we've maxed out on destructive capability with nukes and now it's about the delivery system - how ...

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Perhaps the alternative would be more insane. Consider the scenario that there are two rivals, X and Y. If X develops nukes, it would give them an adv...

I like StreetlightX.

A bird is a bird. Tautology. Nothing is being said in fact.

You can say that again. I think another poster mentioned MInkowski space-time and while I'm neither a physicist nor a mathematician I must say that if...

:ok: Thanks

This seems to be a contradiction to me. There are two things to consider. The description of a qualia and the evocation of that qualia. These are two ...

And then... The intention seems to be bring about, if my reading is anywhere near the mark, change, not just that but positive change. To be sure, thi...

Interesting question. I'd like to frame the intentionalism-consequentialism pairing in, coincidentally, a physician-patient setting. A disease has a h...

:chin: ??!! Explain...

Less is more philosophy? big is SMALL? Nanotechnology seems to be all the rage or so I'm led to believe. You mean giving it is a use in itself? Then I...

I need to get a life :sad:

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But would he succeed? I'm not even asking for there to be some kind of judging committee or panel. Can he describe the taste of his meal and wine to a...