I sense a difference between potential, understood as a talent that could be developed and purpose, umderstood as the reason why someone was born. I c...
My comments were based on the assumption that god exists and is as defined, all-good, all-knowing and all-powerful. I have no proof of god, neither an...
I would like to offer a correction viz. that I fail to see a necessary connection betwtixt omniscience and omnibenevolence i.e. it is possible to be o...
What could possibly be superior to reason? is the million dollar question. Reason crystallizes, so to speak, in logic; it's the heavyweight champion i...
Myth? Color is a frequency-property of light/EM waves. Change the frequency of light and color changes i.e. without changes in frequency there are no ...
I take the position that math is the language in which the laws of the universe are formulated. Granted that pure math, as distinguished from applied ...
My two cents: If Rome's survival depended so much on circuses, wouldn't that make the latter an essential for the former, a need as it were. I remembe...
Thanks for explaing why "gods" instead of "god". Your answer to my second question as to what about knowledge of good and evil makes it an exclusively...
I would've liked to reply "yes" but unfortunately, no, we weren't perfectly capable before logic as the long list of logical fallacies will attest to....
I'm sure you know what intent is. Did you not have an intent to join this forum or to engage with me in this discussion or to have whatever meal that ...
First question: why does the quote refer to gods rather than god? "...ye shall be as gods..." suggests that there is more than one god; either that or...
Well, the "cart is before the horse" is probably a good place to start understanding the reason-logic distinction: horse riding was known to humans mu...
How would you differentiate, if it's a reasonable question to you at all, between the following three scenarios: With reference to Francis Galton's Wi...
There's the application and there's the formal study. When the ancient Egyptians built the amazing structures we call the Pyramids, they applied logic...
For me guessing is, first and foremost, a method of acquiring knowledge. That said, it isn't the preferred, ergo best, method for knowledge acquisitio...
You said which implies that you think learning involves a top-down process where the skill is passed down from the higher consciousness to the subcons...
@IvoryBlackBishop, Congau, unenlightened, BitterCrank: In line with IvoryBlackBishop's "survivalist reasons" and Congau's, "politics is about problems...
Headless Chicken https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_the_Headless_Chicken#/media/File%3AMikeTheHeadlessChicken.jpg The part of our mind that generate...
Well, that doesn't mean bad news lacks appeal in socialist societies. As I said the problem isn't with the media but with the people and whether you'r...
Either your English is too good or my English is too bad :rofl: because I can't see the relevance of the above to my position. Either you need to dumb...
Somehow, it reminds me of Zeno of Elea and his paradoxes. Our senses, IF they are to be trusted and this is a very big "if", inform us that anyone can...
To begin with, I want to avoid discussions on mind if meant as some form of immaterial object different to the brain. I will use "mind" here only to t...
But what you said can be expressed in terms of god beliefs as neither accepting the existence of god nor accepting the nonexistence of god. Where does...
Agreed. I think the confusion here can be chalked up to the difficulty in understanding nothing and also linguistic convenience: the ease of saying "I...
Well, if you must make a distinction between performance and thinking it must be mean that the former doesn't involve the latter and also the converse...
Well, by what means could I determine if the brain does math or not when involved in a physical activity? How do we know that our brain has the abilit...
I'm offering a very simple argument here. Compare physical abilities to that of the ability to discern color. If, as you say, the physics of human mot...
Interesting. Imagine this: your father bequeaths to you a painting of a beautiful girl. Before he passes away, your father says to you, "the painting ...
The reasoning is quite simple actually. 1. Either catching involves math or catching doesn't involve math 2. If catching doesn't involve math then cha...
To all (if interested) I think most of the replies in this thread referred to learning and I wish to build up on that to make the case that our brains...
You mean to say that it doesn't make sense to say something like "I have NOTHING" since NOTHING is, by definition, not anything and so can't be had or...
Well, to be fair, there is no reason why there shouldn't be non-mathematical determinants of motion. However, given that we can model motion based on ...
Three possibilities: Theism, Atheism, Agnosticism 1. X thinks god exists = theist (neither atheist nor agnostic) 2. X doesn't think god exists = not t...
So, there's something non-mathematical in human and animal physics? If that's true then how come mathematical physics is applicable to kinesiology and...
Your analogy is too weak because there are relevant dissimilarities like the differences in the distance of the employees' homes from work which would...
Noted! Well, I Sounds very mathematical. Imagine Justin and me in a room and objects are thrown at us and we manage to catch them with equal success r...
and yet it, thought, produces your insightful comment below: You're in an awkward position if you ask me. You've thought, probably for a good amount o...
The way you put it, especially the phrase "downloaded data" rings a bell. It belies an assumption which maybe obvious to others but not to me, viz. th...
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