QM doesn't do anything that weird, does it? You're probably referring to the concept of superposition in QM. Frankly, the idea seems not to hold up to...
Well, we have Mendel's laws of inheritance which is a bona fide biological law. I would put my money on the existence of biological laws rather than t...
Considering the fact, as it appears to me, that countless old problems are yet not solved to the satisfaction of all parties involved, I would say the...
Objective truths are truths whose truth-status is in no way affected by personal peculiarities (emotions, imagination, perception). Ergo, objective tr...
I see why you brought up the matter of self-love vis-a-vis the golden rule; after all, one projects one's own fears and hopes onto others when employi...
Indiscernibility of identicals: AxAy = for all x and for all y if x is identical to y then, x has property F if and only if y has property F Identity ...
A very simple conception of the principle of the identity of indiscernibles is the following: 1. x = y identical to y] if and only if x and y are indi...
Can one do otherwise when faced with the truth of meaninglessness? Existential nihilism is the stuff of horror stories - like a malicious spirit it'll...
I'm just surprised to discover that antinatalism grows out of our dislike for pain and recommends nonexistence as a remedy when the fact of the matter...
The idea of obligation either to perform or not perform a morally significant act flies against the principle of freedom of will in re moral responsib...
In an odd way. Firstly I'm not referring to existentialism or absurdism by "existential threat". I simply mean that pain is ultimately about death - p...
:up: :ok: Food for thought: Pain means injury (mental and/or physical) and injury means death. All pain is unpleasant, ergo undesirable, for the simpl...
Well spoken. Hit the bullseye. It seems we dislike pain much more than we like pleasure. So here's Ms.Pain and Ms. Pleasure. No one would be willing t...
Yes, agreed. The question is what's the difference between a suicidal person and us? The easy answer is the degree of pain - the suicidal chap's pain ...
Firstly, I somehow sympathize with Benatar's view absence of pain being good whether or not a living thing capable of experiencing pain exists or not....
Of course, of course. I guess Benatar was referring to gratuitious pain - the kind that ain't necessary to keep us safe. Benatar's asymmetry, as far a...
I would disagree with the implications of Benatar's thought experiment. Consider an exquisitely beautiful landscape you have the good fortune of behol...
This feature of Benatar's argument is what's wrong with it. 3. The absence of pain is good implies that the absence of pain is good "even though" (des...
Methinks, rate and/or volume are the culprits. The problem isn't fossil fuel based machines per se but the rate at which they're used (rate) and how m...
Benatar: 1. Presence of pleasure is good 2. Presence of pain is bad 3. Absence of pleasure is not bad 4. Absence of pain is good I finally got what's ...
It seems there's this (widely held) belief that the things we do maybe interrupted in its course and then resumed from the point of interruption with ...
Let's review Benatar's claims: 3 and 4 are the meat of Benatar's argument. In 3, Benatar claims nonexistent (unborn) people are the beneficiaries of a...
Potential to experience pleasure is as equally important as the potential to experience pain. When I deny existence to a person, by, say, not having a...
I don't see how bringing about pleasure does NOT apply to potential life. Can I not plan for my child to have a pleasurable experience on earth, while...
Ok. Benatar's asymmetry depends on one single claim: the absence of pleasure is NOT BAD. Prima facie this is very believable. However, Benatar also ma...
You're right you know but something's wrong with Benatar's asymmetry. Let's go through it again: 1. Presence of pleasure is good 2. Presence of pain i...
If apples are good for you (presence of pleasure is good) then I would be doing something bad by withholding apples from you (deprivation of pleasure ...
This scenario assumes that life is suffering. Indeed if the life is going to be a one-sided experience of only pain then, nonexistence is preferable. ...
I just "realized" something. I've always wondered about the difference between "understanding" and "realization". My opinion on the matter is that the...
The whole idea behind reducing suffering is to make life worth living. To then think that causing a mass extinction follows from it is a egregrious er...
1. We are suffering....my claim 2. We are in heaven....your claim 3. If we are in heaven then it's not the case that we are suffering...premise 4. we ...
Perhaps in line with your thoughts, the pause isn't part of the music you were listening to and so, you listened to a version of the music you created...
There is clearly nothing abstract in your scenario. If any part of the brain is involved it isn't the neocortex and I believe the neocortex is exactly...
Yes, but in my humble opinion, I wanted to keep things as general as possible. A knife's credibility, taking into account its purpose, is all about th...
Haven't you noticed? I'm not in support of mysticism. I think mysticism is nothing more than a bunch of people who've failed to understand something, ...
As I see it there are two kinds of insight then. One kind, something Pythagoras might've experienced, can be expressed in words - clear propositions -...
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