I think we agree on Hitchens' razor or may be not. How about a compromise: Hitchens' razor is applicable in those cases where a conjecture is claimed ...
I can accept that. I don't deny that my reading of The Book is idiosyncratic and is probably tainted with my own personal insecurities. Nevertheless t...
It seems to me (hoping to be wrong) that everything has a price. The courts of law are fully aware of how money can easily break even the most princip...
"Control" is just another way of saying that some aspects of our animal nature are undesirable. I guess emotions like anger, jealousy, malice, etc. wo...
But it's likely that the tale of AI would have an expected resemblance to the Bibilcal story of man. AI would "disobey" and then get punished with dea...
I have no definitive answer to your question. I've heard people say that evolution, the current paradigm, has no goal i.e. there's no purpose. That sa...
I was thinking thereabouts. It makes me think of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics. Self-awareness, true AI, would natu...
Nice. I think you need to elaborate further on the conjunction free will because while the analysis is superb free will I.e. free and will, together, ...
He's quite eloquent and does well in debates. I don't recall him having to run from the law except the possibility of the Ayatollah issuing a fatwa. H...
Aristotle would've agreed and Buddha would've too but there's a significant difference between the two which I think sheds some light on what you say ...
Tough question. On the one hand truth must be preserved and on the other hand violence must be avoided. The ignorant don't know the truth and are susc...
What about Aristotle's golden mean or physiological homeostasis or Buddha's middle path? Life, it seems, is possible within a range of physical parame...
:up: Great video. Great message. I think the video makes a statement on what is and may not necessarily predict how the world will be I suspect all th...
Do you think this is because people are dumb? Or is it because science has proven itself to be, in Matrix terminology, The One? Yet it could be said t...
Divine symbiosis? Care to expand on that? What do you mean? Humans get to live and God gets some sycophantic tribe of worshippers? I don't understand ...
In partial agreement with you but there's one area of philosophical argumentation that Hitchen's Razor is extremely useful viz. the issue with burden ...
:up: As always very illuminating. Thanks. It's very interesting to know, as you have kindly shown, that thinking alone is not enough. You have to thin...
Why do you think that? This is a statistical/probabilistic argument so bear with me. Imagine a coin flipping experiment. No two flips are causally con...
"Dr. Craven is survived by Dorothy Drakesmith Craven, his wife of 64 years; a son, David; a daughter, Sarah Craven; and five grandchildren." John P. C...
You're right. It's too superficial a treatment. Nevertheless, even if it's mythical, the message seems to be knowledge of ethics is forbidden and actu...
I disagree. The usual stats don't reflect facts accurately. Evil needs more weight age than good. I mean a hundred charities can't balance one murder....
I have wrestled with the idea of freewill for so long with zero results. From what I can see the issue is foundational to everything and yet no one ha...
Isn't this like saying the Sun doesn't exist when you're not looking at it? Despite faith being central to Theism most theists attempt to argue for Go...
Does it really come off as that wacky? What about psychological dimensions of which answer one prefers. Would you rather keep believing in the divine ...
A pseudoscientific concept like clairvoyance could sort matters out. Determinism, if true, would allow us to predict the future in complete detail. Cl...
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