TheMadFool

Therein hangs a tale... How fascinating and how disconcerting... What about "reflection"? How has that turned out for us? Has it destroyed all sense o...

The "normal" for Peter included all of these activities. Even if it weren't whatever bodily functions he and others like him had would be the "normal"...

Although I started off like I was, I'm not considering the scenario that Peter learns of his true nature by coming into contact with real people. What...

This is the heart of the matter. AI robots living together with no contact with humans would think their form, in terms of physical appearance and way...

Well, the problem basically boils down to a single question: how do we know we're not AI? Arguably, we wouldn't know until some kind of revelation tak...

Being poor in English, you might want to read this with a pinch of salt. The sentence "it's raining", in my humble opinion, is actually this: "I belie...

That solves the mystery of who or what we consider to be more "intelligent"? I think, despite the who's who of computer science constantly reminding u...

To try and heat vacuum would be like trying to find the weight of a beauty. Presumably, in both cases, heat and weight, there's a necessity for some m...

In my humble opinion, firstly, one must make a distinction - that between thinking and sensing/feeling. Sensing consists of processes that involve gat...

:up: Well, you don't seem to need my help; you've single-handedly come up with a near-scientific hypothesis on the issue. I appreciate your effort and...

What I'm trying to do is, firstly, investigate my suspicions that a desire to believe in a god might be a telltale sign of a desire to be enslaved/dom...

:point: If I must say something in addition to the above then it's this: I agree with @"180 Proof" that women have the right to do anything with their...

I'm going to play detective here and the first thing I notice is despite your highly favorable point of view on women on this issue, you still couldn'...

The things I've been saying are meant as more of an explanation than as a justification for the objectitication of women (by men). Do you see any prob...

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That makes perfect sense. Red and Black, safe for Jack. (Scarlet King Snake) Red and Yellow, will kill a fellow. (Coral Snake) A Coral Snake wouldn't ...

There are more ways things can go wrong than right. Luck is never on our side. :sad:

You're much better than most people, people who are kept on the straight and narrow only because of fear. That said, try not to be evil.

I'm in no way claiming "they had it coming" but I'm bothered by how women dress in ways that seem to attract all the wrong kind of attention to themse...

I have a vague idea on the matter. Here's why suffering in Hell is eternal: Before god revealed himself through his prophets, no one knew good from ev...

What exactly do you mean by "I dress to look good?

Really? How do clothing businesses sustain themselves if not for their products selling like hot cakes? These products include the types I mentioned -...

Wanting to be an "object of desire" is tantamount to wanting to be "treated as an object."

Is eternal damnation a thing? Any references?

Indeed, but the heart of the issue is women want to look good in a way that hints of a probably subconscious desire to become objects of mens' desire.

The types of attire I mentioned are, well, designed to expose or, better put, are sexually suggestive - the very thing that is the basis of men taking...

I believe life is meaningless for everyone. The same dark cloud of utter nothingness looms over every person in this world, from the 2 week old aborte...

Spider Sense! or as Aunt May called it, Spider Tingle or something along those lines. Ever notice that Spiderman's "instincts" are never wrong but it ...

Granted that one problem with Dualism I'm aware of has to do with the absence of a theory that explains how an immaterial mind interacts with a materi...

Not that I'm a mathematician or a logician or anything worth its salt but Baye's Theorem seems to come up with the goods insofar as the OP's query is ...

What test do you propose? Any ideas? Yes, that is the sticking point. I don't see a light at the end of this tunnel. What, according to you, is an "ac...

I realize that AI = artificial intelligence and not consiousness. Firstly, even if that's the case, we still have the problem of inferring things abou...

@"fishfry" The difficulty with employing a method to detect consciousness is that such a method is completely behavior-dependent and that raises the s...

Imagine the following scenario: Someone comes up to you with a closed opaque box in his hand and says, "what's in this in box?" The only answer you ca...

What, in your opinion, is the right view of religion then?

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Islam isn't ancient, in fact it's the very latest incarnation of religion we know of and it means "surrender" or "submission". Isn't the smalltown pre...

Isn't this a theory of violence? You seem to delve into some aspects of violence in certain settings and that's alright by me. What would be interesti...

Fact is stranger than fiction is all I can say to that. :chin:

All that matters here is to realize that theism/atheism aren't blind guesses as the list of arguments I provided shows. Agreed that each and every one...

Then why give such a misleading name to the problem, - "reductionism"? Call it what it really is - materialism.

The idea of the willing slave is intriguing to say the least. Imagine a time before human slavery was abolished. I can't quite make sense of a slavema...

For God: 1. The ontological argument for god 2. The argument from design 3. The Kalam cosmolgical argument 4. The prime mover argument 5. The fine-tun...

Well, the idea of an anesthetic isn't to play with your memory is it?

Do you mind expanding on the underlined bit?

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I maybe barking up the wrong tree here but reductionism appears to be about explanations and insofar as explanations are the issue, the modus operandi...

You have a point there I suppose. What means you by wise obedience?

To entertain the idea of false/misguided obedience is to sow the seeds of disobedience that ultimately leads to the rejection of god. Noted, Outlander...

In other words, there's something dreadful waiting for us at an undesignated location and at an unspecified time and the only way I can save myself an...