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Thanks for your comments. It's been some time so you might have lost the train of thought. Probability, in my opinion, has to be objective or real. By...
November 25, 2019 at 11:42
This is all that I want to hear
November 25, 2019 at 11:16
Can you kindly present your version of antinatalism? I'm not denying that there is suffering in the world. A good indication of this would be the conc...
November 25, 2019 at 09:49
Notice that you said "huge number of things". So you agree that being greater in number, which results in an explosion of possible interactions, quali...
November 25, 2019 at 09:15
That's what I mean. The antinatalist can't see the distinction between life and suffering. You say even "some" suffering is good enough to decide. Doe...
November 25, 2019 at 08:43
In a sense it's about degrees of freedom, freedom in the broadest sense of the word. An object once possessed gets locked to the possessor and loses i...
November 25, 2019 at 08:29
Part of, I think the most vital part of, self-improvement is having the ability to recognize the most efficient processes of life and then choose them...
November 25, 2019 at 07:24
I see. A tendency towards balance. :chin: What about the initial imbalance that drives the entire process? I'll give you an example. Take a battery/ce...
November 25, 2019 at 06:46
I still don't get it. How is it possible that two ethically similar people have contradictory outcomes (one going to hell and the other going to heave...
November 25, 2019 at 06:11
Firstly I don't deny that there is suffering in life. Countless millions have lived their lives in abject misery only to perish in horrible ways. Howe...
November 25, 2019 at 05:41
Well, yes, to be non-existent surely beats having to suffer a hellish nightmare of a life. People make choices in that direction in the form of suicid...
November 24, 2019 at 05:40
:rofl: :lol:
November 24, 2019 at 05:09
This claim is not substantiated in the argument unless Theodore Sider is privy to information we're not aware of. It's implausible at all levels of cr...
November 24, 2019 at 04:47
I think I might've mistaken one meaning of "possess" for another here. Does the following not make sense: I'd like your comment. Thanks
November 24, 2019 at 04:28
In my world, which is quite small I must confess, the following laws hold true: 1. Owners have boners 2. The owned are things that can be boned I thin...
November 24, 2019 at 04:13
:ok:
November 24, 2019 at 03:30
As I mentioned in my post that choosing the most efficient/bestest path isn't a choice at all. However to enable us to find such paths requires intell...
November 24, 2019 at 02:49
I think we're on the same wavelength though I must confess that you saw the connection intelligent design and intelligent evolution but I only strayed...
November 24, 2019 at 02:44
I agree that the picture of directed evolution doesn't reflect the truth as it is now. What I'm saying boils down to the fact that intelligent design ...
November 24, 2019 at 02:12
I still can't figure out why you think the future is unknowable. There's only one thing I know that can justify such a claim - chaos - and the world w...
November 24, 2019 at 02:05
:up: :ok: What's the difference between my "predictions X, Y, Z must be true" and your "predictions X, Y, Z would be observed" ? I do find the shift i...
November 24, 2019 at 01:49
Your example is a good one and captures both the nature of the thoughts that flit across the minds of drug bugs and also how they're a caricature of w...
November 23, 2019 at 17:36
I have a problem. It begins with the way numbers are presented to us in school. The usual methods: 1. Set method: A given collection of items are used...
November 23, 2019 at 14:40
I'm not sure if I understand you completely. You seem to be saying that to remove the people, the sense of who and what they are, and focus on the usu...
November 23, 2019 at 10:21
What about the idea of possible worlds? It seems that apart from contradictions everything is possible. This is rather a truism since arguments for no...
November 23, 2019 at 08:51
I see. I think you're in agreement with Popper regarding the necessity for falsifiability for a theory/proposition to be considered as scientific. In ...
November 23, 2019 at 08:27
I think verifiability is limited in scope to a particular world for the reason that induction isn't conclusive in any world. However for the devil-pro...
November 22, 2019 at 16:12
Thanks Ying for taking the trouble to post Popper's argument. A couple of things: 1. Popper means by testable that a theory can be disproved and by ve...
November 22, 2019 at 15:29
Do we really need to invoke demons to see the logical error in scientific reasoning. Was there any good reason for choosing the antichrist to show the...
November 22, 2019 at 12:27
The notion of balance seems either implicit or explicit, the difference between the two being the degree of their prominence in the zeitgeist of a peo...
November 22, 2019 at 06:24
The path from random evolution to well-orchestrated efficient evolution has its slippery slopes. In my humble opinion morality is as distinct a human ...
November 22, 2019 at 03:18
It's possible to imagine the perfect car - inexpensive, fuel-efficient, low maintenance, etc - but until one can be constructed, thus felt, bought and...
November 22, 2019 at 02:40
No plan is perfect but no objective is under the sway of every possible contingency. Right? You didn't expect the crash but at least you thought, for ...
November 22, 2019 at 02:31
Why do you say that? Have you never planned for the future? Did you not plan yesterday that you would respond to my post? If you say "no" then, like m...
November 21, 2019 at 11:38
I think no amount of learning can ever get us to the meanings the art forms (movies included) the creator(s) wants us to experience. This is not just ...
November 21, 2019 at 10:34
I've heard that evolution finds it difficult to explain morality, given the fact of the selfish gene. I find this rather odd point of view considering...
November 21, 2019 at 06:09
If truth is our ultimate goal then self-awareness is a necessary step. I can work in my own favor only if I know I exist. Right? It appears that life ...
November 21, 2019 at 03:49
We need to look at the time-frame if you want to see the difference between blind evolution and human-directed evolution. Blind evolution would requir...
November 21, 2019 at 02:57
One could say that life has achieved self-awareness through humans. This isn't such a difficult proposition to consider. Look at the human body. Is ou...
November 21, 2019 at 02:52
:smile: Thanks. The cardinal virtues don't really address good in a moral sense do they? They seem more behavior-oriented. Someone who is wise, courag...
November 21, 2019 at 02:42
If you don't mind I'd like to continue with my bucket with a hole analogy of life. The hole represents the basic necessities and, by any rationale the...
November 21, 2019 at 02:33
In the context which requires us not to ignore negative ethics.
November 20, 2019 at 14:08
Strange isn't it that consciousness forms part of the system (logic, pattern recognition, etc.) that explains the world and yet it cannot explain itse...
November 20, 2019 at 14:06
I thought Stoicism had as a belief the distinction controllable vs uncontrollable. It so happens, quite unfortunately for most of us, that the former ...
November 20, 2019 at 13:05
I mean basic necessities kinda screams out at you that it should be a priority doesn't it?
November 20, 2019 at 12:40
I don't know whether I'm agreeing/disagreeing with you here. "Basic necessities" seems self-explanatory right? Perhaps people will argue over what cou...
November 20, 2019 at 12:23
I thought the Devil's greatest trick was convincing the world he doesn't exist. :smile:
November 20, 2019 at 12:16
Sowing the seeds of doubt...eh...Mr. Thomas...I mean Wheatley? I'm no fan of religion although I do recognize there's something compelling about it. I...
November 20, 2019 at 11:53
The irony is that choosing the most efficient process is actually having no choice ("being compelled") other than that particular process because if a...
November 20, 2019 at 02:30
:clap: :ok: :up: I really hope so too.Thanks.
November 19, 2019 at 14:42