TheMadFool

What I know is that in the beginning there was only hydrogen (simplest atom), then stars formed and in the inside of these stars carbon, oxygen and ni...

If our senses and mind can, it has been demonstrated, be deceived it's impossible to know reality from illusion. It's like trying to measure the corre...

How is this possible? The antithesis of freewill is determinism. Determinism is defined in terms of causality. Freewill, if present, must be acausal.

Very, very interesting. Yet, in your view there has to be that switch which makes, in this case, consciousness evident. In other words something addit...

An interesting question. What is this I/me? There seems to be a paradox lurking in its understanding. Think of ideas which shape you and form your Wel...

I don't how what you say sits with what people seem to call Emergence which, if I understand correctly, basically claims that the whole is more than t...

I'm not a chemistry expert but I think for a substance to base life on it requires some conditions e.g. how many bonds it can hold, the environment it...

That makes sense. We hardly, at least I don't, remember what we did and wore a few weeks ago and yet I did exist. Nonetheless, the point I was making ...

What about happiness? Isn't focussing only on suffering an incomplete view of reality? I guess suffering is a very basic emotion and relatable, throug...

When someone says ''nothingness before birth'' s/he's referring to the fact that we didn't/can't experience anything at all before we're born. In a se...

Assume this takes place in a group of 3 people A, B and C. Fix the price at 3 cents. A buys it first and asks for an infinite amount of money among hi...

You deny concepts that come naturally to us. Existence/nonexistence is a very basic concept and how it applies in a situation determines our worldview...

I too believe that empathy is an essential, if not most important, part of morality. At its simplest we feel or at least attempt to feel what others a...

Is this a correlation is causation fallacy? There must be a force that instigates religion and then that manifests in many ways e.g. building of worsh...

The paradox if rephrased is this: Not a single day will be a surprise hanging as far as the prisoner is concerned. His logic is perfect. However, thus...

This is probably an informal fallacy. The kid in question thought: 1. That person is looking in this direction Therefore 2. That person is looking at ...

I understand what you mean. Try to think of how the supplier, in the scenario you described, would ask in exchange? What would a group of researchers ...

I've been asking similar questions too. No definite answer as of yet. I think, as others have said, money is about convenience. If I were a sheep rear...

This isn't a moral dilemma exactly. It's an existential question based on weighing the happiness/pain in one's life. How this question concerns you is...

What do you mean by this? As far as I can see ALL moral issues are about how individuals should treat other individuals; this to me clearly suggests e...

I appreciate the thought. I guess it makes sense to be good to yourself. This doesn't make complete sense to me though. Can you explain to me how a wo...

How right you are but that doesn't negate what I said about morality being essentially a social phenomenon explicable with recognizing some form of un...

Whywould you do that? In which world does character have any moral value except in a social setting?

What is morality about then? It's a social thing isn't it? What would one person do with morality?

I think a ''rights movement'' needs the sound basis of discriminatory practices. Are men discriminated against? The examples you cite don't seem to sh...

Works of art seem to be inspired by emotion which are, in turn, caused by something - a picturesque landscape, a beautiful maiden, etc. Don't these ha...

Morality, I believe, had an origin. We now consider it distinct from its source i.e. it has become a subject in itself. The problem is (at least for m...

I think timing is important in music. Space can be translated into time.

Are you willing to commit suicide with a 28% chance? I'm not going to hold my breath...

Why do they execute bad people? Existence itself is probably not enough.

It's not as bad as you suggest. While there's white collar crime, the educated are, on the whole, more reasonable. The uneducated seem susceptible to ...

There is no mystery. There is only curiosity and curiosity killed the cat. What is a mystery anyway? It's simply the need to answer the 7 basic questi...

I read on a person's T-shirt ''Nobody wants to die but everybody wants to go to heaven''. This, I think, sums up our pathetic situation - the chasm th...

I don't know. You haven't proven that infinity can't grow. I remember mentioning to you about how, once upon a time, we couldn't count more than 2. 3 ...

There is no mathematical or, for that matter, any other law that prevents infinity from growing. You can still add to infinity. Yes the answer will st...

You're right but what choice do you have? The scenario is like suicide and I suppose if we have to go why not in our best suit?

Good argument. But you'd have to prove that infinity can't grow/expand. That is something you haven't done yet. Infinity can grow can it not? I hear t...

The trolley problem is NOT a moral issue. Where we can't choose i.e. we're constrained there can be neither good nor bad. Either option is acceptable.

We'd need some criteria to select the chosen ones. What could that be I wonder? How about this... We don't choose those who must die but, rather, choo...

I'd like some Western and Eastern perspective on this. There probably is some difference between the two hemispheres and before I forget what about Af...

Scientists are fully aware of what they do. Of course many, perhaps most, will not choose their field with the overarching lofty goal of a purpose/mea...

I'm not claiming science is perfect and it might have some dubious (materalistic) assumptions. However, no one can deny that it is a rational enterpri...

To be absolutely fair we can't really comment on the God issue can we? Also, if you believe in God then great. I secretly hope for a God too as I espe...

QM is about the atomic world and objective reality is about the macroscopic world. I don't think we can carry over the results in one to the other. If...

I remember starting a thread about this question. I believe purpose/meaning has to be unique to the individual and, by corollary, to a particular spec...

I agree but with the proviso that women are better than men only in the narrow sense of legal behavior. I mean women tend to be more law abiding than ...

I'm a bit confused. What do you mean by ''rationality''? If you mean the traditional notion of disallowing contradictions then it's my hunch that one ...

Here's what I remember from my logic studies: To assess the credibility of a claim made by a person the following conditions need to be satisfied: 1. ...

I don't know. Nothing does have physical references e.g. empty space. It also has a mathematical interpretation viz. zero. Nothingness can also be "ex...