Quite right. I wouldn't want to present a lop-sided view of humanity but if I've tried to do anything it's to present the facts as they are. We have d...
Infinite regress always occurs in a rational argument so intuition doesn't come into play here. Either the regress itself is problematic or it leads t...
What is your definition of fine tuning? Is the definition necessarily associated with life; for example we can only say a universe X is fine-tuned if ...
On the amazing argument in the twitter feed you posted. I hear this being mentioned a lot - that the universe is cold and inhospitable. However, one c...
Why couldn't I? I presented to you a counter-argument with a contradictory conclusion and you don't accept it. I employed your modus ponens form and a...
It's impossible for it to be, as you say, turtles all the way down because we're at a particular position in the sequence, right? There must be an ord...
Z = {...-3, -2, -1, 0, 1, 2, 3,...} or Z = {...-4, -3, -2, -1, 0, 1, 2, 3, 4,..} or Z = {...-2, -1, 0, 1, 2,..} Notice that though Z is the same set w...
I don't think that love for/of humanity is a delusion as such but anyone who professes it must in some ways ignore basic truths that make humanity not...
I don't know if what you said makes sense. If there is no first tuner, then there can't be a second or a third, etc.? An infinite regress here preclud...
If the universe of this very special fine-tuner isn't itself fine-tuned for life then how did it ever come into existence as life? I guess that a univ...
I watched a video on ecology and population growth, the most important problem for the planet as far as humans are concerned. It seems living organism...
You're correct. My bad. Here, you're trying to blur the line between the conventional meaning of "appearance" and truth. Appearances are deceptive and...
Apparitions, dreams and nightmares though intriguing pale in comparison to the real question which is, "how do I know that I'm not dreaming right now,...
Sorry, I was a bit distracted. Let's look at your main argument 1.The mind is indivisible 2. If the mind is indivisible then it's simple, immaterial a...
I like Sam Harris' account of the problem dualists face when they transfer consciousness to something immaterial. Harris states that damage to certain...
:lol: :up: Firstly, modern science has proved, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that it's the brain that thinks. We've even mapped out the regions of the b...
I think that's the point. It seems that you're making a thing out of nothing. BrianW reminded me of the brain - the organ that has been proved to be t...
If nothing, is not a thing and the mind is a thing then observe they are exactly identical with respect to the properties you listed. You'll have to p...
I'm not advicing you. Sorry if it seemed that way. Your argument was complex. Nothing too is simple, indivisible, immaterial and uncaused according to...
What I'm trying to say is that you should first prove the mind is simple because being immaterial and being uncaused follows from being simple, not fr...
Not really. Begging the question. The proposition that needs to be proved is that the mind is indivisible for your argument to work. To do that you ne...
:rofl: I was trying to show that global climate has been affected by organisms before although in a natural way and the present man-made global warmin...
Well, the term "conspiracy theory" applies to improbable and thus less plausible theories then alternatives which are more probable, ergo more plausib...
Yes, that's exactly what you did by demanding meat. If you demand meat then someone will butcher an animal. Contrapositively, if you don't want people...
Well, it seems "damn" means to condemn to hell and so it's understandable that One Million Moms, being a Christian group, is, to put it mildly, upset ...
Wouldn't instantaneous change in age be violating a principle of relativity that is bandied around like juicy gossip, to wit that communication can't ...
Argument A 1a. If all objects are caused then infinity exists 2a. Infinity doesn't exist Ergo 3a. Some objects are not caused Argument B 1b. If all ob...
You may already know this butit seems humans aren't the only organisms to have affected our earth's climate: cyanobacteria caused the great oxygenatio...
"Provocation" is the keyword I believe. Art, back in the day, was about beauty and expressing that in stone, canvas and pages. Now, since we're in the...
You were comparing the violinist in Thomson's gedanken experiment with a meat-source for our diets, a cow. There's a difference. In the former the vio...
Firstly, I think people will be especially concerned about what Gnomon said, that art has been held to be beyond Good & Evil. Maybe I'm committing the...
Piaget's claim: at the highest level we do what's good for humanity. There seems adequate room for immorality there, in at the lowest level. Since the...
Well, there is a sense in which fate is real; after all the universe seems to obey rules, aptly named "the laws of nature". Whether everything in the ...
Yes, in my opinion for the simple reason that the only reason to be non-vegetarian and to allow Mat to die would have to involve your own death. Think...
Kindly explain the difference between terminating and non-terminating self-reference in re to Curry's paradox. The Curry sentence is this P1 := P1 > P...
I think the poem, (is it one? no idea) is specific about its meaning and that's it deals with sufficient causes and not necessary causes. However, it'...
Not really. If I remember correctly, for something to be nested every previous step must occur, wholly, in the step that follows. This is nesting: (a)...
Well, the paradox rests on self-reference and I don't have a clue why computers can't handle self-reference. However, humans fare better at it, hence ...
This view of the world is very grim. It provides no room for change, a criminal can't turn a new leaf and is condemned to not only act as he was force...
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