TheMadFool

I offer only my own intuitions on the matter with help from you and others of course. Will, I surmise, is also about direction; mathematically speakin...

"Putting Cruelty First" and "The Liberalism Of Fear". Seems on point.

:ok: My take on desirability/appeal in descending order of preference: Hedonic value 1. Joy 2. Painless 3. Some pain, some joy 3. Painful Realness val...

Thanatos & Hypnos? Where does Algos (god of pain) fit into the overall scheme? The paradox: Pain (Algos) is a cardinal sign of disease and disease lea...

I like your style. It bears the mark of what computer scientists would, one day, refer to, if and when it happens, as an intuitive program (the Oracle...

:ok: It's interesting though, right?, how people back then equated what is physiological life (brain + delta waves) with physiological death (brain - ...

Opinions seem divided. 1. If time travel is possible then, in effect, time and space become indistinguishable with respect to degrees of freedom - any...

What's better then? If you're correct, we should have some sense of being as opposed to nonbeing, existence instead of nonexistence or, to put it simp...

Will 1. A desire, an intent. It was God's will that Jack go to San Francisco. By the way, where's @"Jack Cummins"? 2. A natural tendency. Water flows ...

Good question! Consider it our best guess, a guesstimate if you will. By the way, do you have any evidence that death isn't a dreamless sleep?

:ok: I was merely referring to the perceived similarity between a brain with delta waves (dreamless sleep) and brain with no waves (death). A simple e...

Thanks. Reality is hardly ever cooperative enough to fit neatly into our equations. There's always some wrinkles that we just have to ignore. Neverthe...

I have a feeling you're confusing epistemology with ontology. Try not to confuse knowledge with fact. :joke:

Food for thought: Alice in Wonderland effect: When Alice takes a sip from the 'Drink Me' bottle, she shrinks but it feels like everything is enlarging...

C'mon, you can't expect me to do everything! :joke:

When I can't solve a puzzle, I can't tell whether the puzzle is difficult or I'm stupid!

The Buddha's problem: He was, I believe, in search of constants but the catch is change is the only constant. :lol:

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I dunno!

I'm beginning to doubt this claim.

The distinction is as pointless as trying to talk to Abby in private. :point: Abby & Britanny.

Perhaps this is more to your taste: Sans pain, evil is meaningless. Good point but explain to us how levitation can be moral/immoral? God, remember, i...

What I found interesting: Brain waves 1. Gamma waves: Intense concentration 2. Beta waves: Most common, normal awake state 3. Alpha waves: Awake, rela...

Think of evil as maximizing options. Sure, God made it impossible to walk through brick walls but at the very least, making us capable of evil, He exp...

That's the problem right there! Whenever we try to generalize, we end up in hot water. Unfortunately or not, we can't help it - we need rules god damn...

But only so that we're truly free. That's the whole point.

What I find intriguing is that there's a difference between acausality (no patterns) and amended causality (changing patterns). I think people, at lea...

God wanted to give us our freedom and that it seems has unfortunate consequences viz. evil.

As a Pyrrhonist, I should suspend judgment on whether the man hanging from the tree indicates evil/justice. Skepticism is, at the end of the day, awar...

Choice!

Free will requires evil, ergo pain & suffering, to be possible. You can't talk about free will without conceding pain, suffering should be part of the...

How? God can't be evil if the evil is our doing.

:rofl: I always fail to convince you!

I think you're missing an important piece in the puzzle - free will.

What is of concern to me is why an entirely new model needs to be built from scratch simply to explain a more precise measurement if that is what's ac...

:ok: :up: 1. Am I correct about what I said about Newton? Had his measurements for mass and distance been more precise (had more decimal places) than ...

I see. So one way polluters (governments, big oil, etc.) can wiggle their way out of a tight spot is to fudge the numbers - lower the resolution of re...

A little thought experiment for you to consider: Say it's in the 1800s. You're riding from your small town to another settlement and along the way you...

I haven't the slightest idea.

I'm rather surprised that people who complain about the problem of evil simultaneously maintain that justice is a critical aspect of morality. If they...

Suppose a certain measurement, say mass (m) is made with better and better instruments (precision + /accuracy +) True value of m: 2.0165394830013 kg I...

I'm increasinly persuaded that this. our "lovely" earth, is in reality hell itself. Of course the descriptions of hell don't match with earthly facts ...

Yes, I do recall reading that a coupla suns ago. We have bigger worries though viz. God. In an odd and very peculiar way we know He's the one behind a...

As always, good question! :smile:

On the first charge levied against me - "...haven't read the TLP in full..." - I plead guilty. However, in my defense, I did read the SEP and Wiki ent...

Wittgenstein's statement, context-independent, is nonsensical e.g. he claims that if anyone understands him, that person would realize Wittgenstein's ...

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Update @"180 Proof" and others as well. What means this :point: Wittgenstein's Ladder (Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus) ?

I finally get what you're trying to say OP. Hume: There is no logical necessity in causality. No reason why if the first two times I hit a ball and it...

A similar argument maybe made for domesticated animals. We, humans, are the ones who have to do the dirty work - torturing, killing animals - but anim...