TheMadFool

The idea behind Genesis seems to be simple. All human thought can be reduced to computation. Yes, Genesis may not be able to feel emotions but it has ...

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Violence, it seems, is defined as physical force intended to damage or destroy a person. It, in one fell swoop, reduces a person who until the point v...

Misanthropy may come in degrees. I mean outright hatred of one's own ilk, here humans, maybe the definition of misanthropy but I feel even a general d...

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I'm just happy that violence is considered an extreme measure/response. By its position at the bottom of the list of options, people demonstrate an in...

If systemic racism or any such kind of "cooperative" enterprise is or was underway then it serves as the strongest evidence for telepathy. How am I ev...

:rofl: Jokes aside, God must have some mental process as part of his being. I don't think God has a head like we do but he surely must be able to cont...

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Well, how do you wish to go about putting into question the general conception that language is a medium?

What exactly do you mean by "sea of circumstance"? I can imagine a setting of circumstances A, B and C, etc. In A, we doubt B and C; In B, we doubt A ...

One implication that gets me all excited is the possibility, just a possibility nothing else, that plants could have the power of thought; after all, ...

Well, there's this oft mentioned belief that humans are pattern-seeking creatures. This suggests that patterns are objective and while some are known,...

I'm tempted to call you out on what you said which prima facie looks like a contradiction. Do you mind elaborating? I may have missed the point. I see...

Are you suggesting language is more than what people think it is - nothing but a mode of communication. Do you feel that language isn't just a passive...

Particle behavior will manifest as the electron-size person would know which slit he went through. What happens if s/he closes his/her eyes or if s/he...

I remember very vaguely that existential nihilism rejects any purpose to life itself and that, I guess, includes every one of us. I was left with the ...

Well, if I choose to be, say, a doctor then I would, subsequently, acquire a purpose and even if being a doctor restricts my options these restriction...

But not zero.

Is the probability of photon patterns of objects reforming to produce either an exact image or a blurry version of the image zero?

So, your conception of radical doubt would be to doubt everything. If memory serves, Descartes did exactly that but came to realize he couldn't doubt ...

Yes, there's entropy and the photon pattern of historic objects may subsequently be affected by it and that, for me, explains why most ghosts seen by ...

I used to love being a fan of, as the video game franchise Civlization calls them, great people but then it dawned on me that there's, to my utter dis...

Yes, the empathetic can't get of a feel "of" being a psychopath but surely, the empathetic can feel "for" a psychopath.

Well, you were basically objecting to Descartes before in the context of his cogito argument. I did a climb down and agreed with you that an "I" is, p...

What about when we freely choose a purpose? It seems that purpose and freedom don't connect in a way that a lack of the former entails the latter. :ch...

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Good call. Exposes, to my dismay, a point of view that isn't all that praiseworthy. I mean would there be no protests, no hurt, no call for justice, w...

I'm more surprised by what seems to be collective madness than by individual madness. The single individual maybe forgiven for his insanity; after all...

What did you understand by "thinker" in my last reply to you?

The cynical thing to say here is that racism, its cause(s) whatever it/they maybe, can be solved with the world's greatest problemsolver - no, not rea...

What is to be made of the prevailing scientific opinion that life itself is an accident, emerging from nothing more than matter, energy and chance? Al...

Firstly, there is no necessity that others should not exist for the idea of convincing yourself to fly. I'm certain that many people engage in the act...

Staying within religion, if the knowledge of good and evil were good then, god wouldn't have punished A & E. On the flip side, were it evil, god would...

You have to convince yourself before you can even try to convince an other. Descartes?

Perfection is a morally neutral concept; I can imagine the perfect villain, the perfect plan to kill somebody, so and so forth. The notion of perfecti...

Isn't Moore's claim like an astronomer thinking stars, galaxies, giant gas clouds, space dust, etc. exist by just looking at, as opposed to looking th...

Where exactly is the boundary between internal reality and external reality? Presumably there is an internal reality since we're talking about externa...

Well, hands aren't exactly "external" reality are they? Hands are too me to be proof of anything other than me, no?

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Isn't this just another pernicious idea? To find comfort in fiction rather than in facts? Of course one is sometimes pushed to make a difficult choice...

I guess then it's time to ask the million dollar question: Is there any race that's not racist?

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I see. The phrase "systemic racism" has conspiracy theory written all over it. Can you imagine the level of intrigue necessary for such to be true?

Why did Moore choose hands to make his point?

The question "why there's racism in the USA (or anywhere else for that matter)?" is like asking a cannibal why he eats chicken?

You're guilty of double standards here. You begin by taking the Bible literally. In your own eloquent words below: Then you accuse me of "literal read...

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Can you give me some examples? Kindly elaborate. You would and even I would (probably) but how would one know whether a computer is conscious in the s...

I thought Jesus came back from the dead, whole and not as a zombie, and subsequently went to heaven to be seated beside his father, god as part of the...