TheMadFool

I don't treat disobedience per se a sin. Then the matter is controversial enough to make your pronouncements very weak.

There must be private experiences?

Nec caput nec pedes.

It isn't a strawman. Dennett went on record to say that consciousness is an illusion. I find that interesting by the way. It gets my juices flowing, n...

Yes, it in't clear to me too what I'm trying to ask. It's just a vague notion. If the ancient Greeks were left doing only arithmetic they would've nev...

Update The Liar Paradox The liar sentence: This1 sentence is false. The negation of the liar sentence: This2 sentence is true. For there to be a parad...

Don't ask me. I'm just following the herd.

Self-deception is a real possibility. As we are to ourselves is either incoherent (private language argument) or incoherent (beetle-in-the-box).

The great void is like God - incomprehensible, transcendental, beyond our grasp - and surprise, surprise, God's the last word so far as meaning is our...

Engineer, huh? 1. Every theory must have a good "foundation". 2. Brain "architecture" is what interests. 3. The "structure" of Plato's metaphysics. 4....

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Platonic Forms? @"Wayfarer"

It is, I fear, not what you think it is. Nothing that wasn't obvious. Okey dokey. Yep. It's not a statement that we made so much as it is a statement ...

Sorry, but how does \uparrow prove that, and I quote, "It just kind of begs the question of thinking itself"?

Update There seems something physical (messy) about geometry and something nonphysical (crystal clear) about arithmetic. Immanuel Kant, likely for pro...

You've lost me but that's the point I susppose. Kindly elaborate on the topics these questions touch upon.

Then your point is moot. Right?

How?

What means this?

I've focused on those aspects of Gödel's argument that are general: 1. A proposition is a sentence that has a truth value. 2. The principle of bivalen...

Focus on the word "God" in OMG! and Hawking's statement.

@"Wayfarer" Explanatory gap :point: The 1% DNA difference between chimps and humans explains/does not explain the difference between a chimp mind and ...

Either you get it or you don't.

So, it's not possible to tear at a rational point. I suppose there's no point in asking why? "You will always be slightly irrational". You as in me? W...

Great post! :up: Clarified some of my doubts on the hard problem of consciousness specifically that it's about the explanatory gap between physical th...

Yeah, Hawking's comment is like how atheists (still) use "OMG!" as an expression of surprise/shock. Nevertheless, idealism, if true, seems to make the...

Update I have nothing to say vs. I have something to say but I can't find the words. A person with a limited or no vocab is very much like a person wh...

Spoke in parables, eh? Why indeed? Was it a necessity or was it a preference? A lot depends on the answer. Why not?

Indeed. Something to ponder upon. Right! Yep. A way of looking at it, yes. I guess so. All words refer to our experiences. The converse, it appears, i...

Why indeed? That's debatable. Cheers!

:up: But isn't nonphysicalism close to idealism, close enough to be clubbed together?

You mean to say it's just the act of defiance that God was angered by? Why choose that particular tree of knowledge of good and evil then? Why not som...

The hard problem of consciousness There's a purely subjective aspect to consciousness (qualia as a catch-all) which science, being objective, is incap...

Whaddaya mean?

This might prove interesting: As per idealism, everything is mental, everything exists only in the mind. If so, an apple on a plate on a table, which ...

Omnipotence: Can do anything. So, sorry posters to this thread, no use saying Bartricks is an idiot if by that you mean Bartricks'theory is riddled wi...

@"Bartricks" I feel your fascination with omnipotence is a sign that what you're really interested in is paraconsistent logic and its more "violent" t...

This makes sense to me. However, we have strung together some symbols here viz. God created time but what does that look like? When I say Rapheal crea...

If time is a property, define changeless. Ok. What's the ticking of a clock if time doesn't flow?

:ok: 1. Yes, I agree. We can't talk about so-called private experiences can either be considered a limitation of language itself or that the sign-refe...

One possible interpretation, yes. Why not. :ok: :ok: Update (to all posters above and below) It seems my post has multiple points of interest and plea...

I didn't realize this until now of course but I think we need to dig deeper into irrational numbers. What are they? Does it have to do with the contin...

I believe there's something wrong here. Time is usually not regarded as a property of an object just as spatial location is not. So, "an event will ch...

What we can/want to do is not the same as what we should/need to do.

God and time, the connection between them hinges on God as, sometimes, within time (immortal) and then also, other times, outside of time (again immor...

Let's not complicate matters by digging into the etymological roots of words but thanks anyway for the links. Now, kindly tell me the difference betwe...

:grin: I catch your drift but frankly, from the perspective of a climate scientist or an ecologist we know too much, we're too smart for our own good ...

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I believe religion , when it began, was on the right track - for people to be successful, they had to keep x happy or else... catastrophes in the form...