TheMadFool

Free will leads to real choice leads to moral responsibility. The causal chain flows ----> in that direction and not the reverse as you seem to be sug...

Read the above. It's an ethical perspective but roughly approximates what I want to say: We are natural are we not? How is it then that our behavior, ...

when I see https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/Lambda-letter-lowercase-symbol-Garamond.svg/150px-Lambda-letter-lowercase-symbol-...

Thanks for the reply. I was thinking how nature is fractal: https://fractal.weebly.com/uploads/7/3/7/4/737477/2797414.jpg https://fractal.weebly.com/u...

On what basis? Unnatural compared to what and in what way?

To reject my argument we must resort to a utilitarian calculus dependent on an improbability of the consequences I described or balancing suffering wi...

I think ethics is more important than entitlement. I'm entitled to eat meat but is it ethical to kill animals?

I wouldn't put restrictions or enforce any sort of behavior. Of course you must remember that ethics is precisely about dos and don'ts but these must ...

A very enlightening observation. To answer your question on what knowing feels like I'm reminded of Archimedes who, having discovered the law of buoya...

Knowledge and power don't mix. People are free to choose but their choices, in this issue, must be ethical.

Of course people are free to choose. That's not the issue. It's about the ethics of having children and clearly, if you don't want your child to hurt ...

You've put the effect before the cause. Also rational intuitions, although I like them a lot, have on most occasions put me I trouble. Moral responsib...

The minority want to belong to the majority. It's not the other way around.

The former consider the latter unnatural/abnormal.

Bandwagon fallacy? :broken:

No! In very simple terms either your child will hurt or get hurt. You don't want your child to hurt someone You don't want your child to suffer Ergo i...

Yes but which kind of analysis have you applied here? Qualitative or quantitative?

Harmony? Cooperation is the essence of social creatures. I remember posting about left-handed people and how they find it difficult to live in a right...

Ok Thanks

Can you elaborate further? I think even normal-abnormal is a quantitative statistical interpretation. However, a qualitative approach would only see v...

Are you getting older or in some kind of trouble? Both seem to have an effect on belief in God. There seems to be a pattern in belief in the supernatu...

What would this link be? I'd like to know if you're willing to teach.

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Who is NOT mad here?

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Let's go back to the beginning. a = a + 1 1) a is NOTHING infinity = infinity + 1 2) a is infinity From 1 and 2, NOTHING = infinity by the reason that...

My argument is like Cantor's diagonal argument regarding the absence of bijection between the real numbers and the natural numbers N = {1, 2, 3, 4, 5,...

Sorry if this puts you off but what axioms would be necessary for the existence of natural numbers and the basic mathematical operations of + and ×? I...

A very simple text. I'm quite certain there's very little ambiguity with the concepts I used. Axiom of infinity? How is it "wordplay"? The solution se...

Thank you and can you be more specific. There are quite a number of steps I went through in my "proof". The final steps in my proof: 1. b = a + 1 (jus...

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Thanks all for your comments. The axiom of infinity. So an infinite set is postulated to exist. My statement about the infinite set of natural numbers...

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Perhaps there's a problem with the model we're using - the number line. I mean if we do the math sure there's always a number between any two numbers ...

:ok: If, as you suggest, we're to take the fall of man as a metaphor why didn't the weavers' of this tale use something else for the cause of the prob...

Guilty! :brow: :chin: Yes. Continue please... To all: I was just wondering why it took 65 years for mathematicians to go from this: https://d1whtlypfi...

How about a tree? Is a tree good or bad?

The post doesn't reflect the title. I think you're right. If memory serves an unbelievable fact is that most schizophrenics are NOT in mental asylums....

To tell you the truth I really can't make sense of this world. So understanding an omniscient being is way out of my league. I feel that if there is a...

Hitchens' razor: Prove it and say it. You: Say it but prove it I guess there's a very important aspect of rationality I'm not understanding. I don't k...

:rofl: You make so much sense to me!

Axiom of infinity. That's as subtle as a gun in your face I guess. I don't know. Am I making sense here?

You have interesting things to say but please note the following: You can view the full juicy details here These are not my words and what I've said i...

Well, you do suspend belief until the conjecture is proven. If you don't do that then you'd be believing anything and everything which I hope is not w...

Doesn't entail free will. Randomness is unpredictable. Here's a thought. We don't choose who we are, essentially making our ability to choose itself i...

Just watched the video. Very inspiring. I wonder...

Thanks for the video but I can't help noticing that you wrote "one's own imperfections". While I've said things that suggest some emotions are undesir...

I think that's the scientific/logical/mathematical method right there. What I find relevant in your post is that you don't accept that a conjecture is...

How do you understand the fall of man in a different way? I tried but there doesn't seem to be any other hidden message apart from that Adam and Eve f...

Reminds me of a cartoon about growing up. Sorry can't find it but I'll describe it for you. The child has a small brain and a big heart. As you grow o...