You're talking about a collective meaning - the meaning of life as a whole. That's fine, after all life is billions of years old and might continue fo...
What would a psychologist say about political correctness? Are discriminated people in denial and suffering from an inferiority complex or are those w...
Desire per se is not the problem. Desire is impossible to escape. Even to not want it is itself a want. Why attempt the impossible? Perhaps the statem...
It's quite simple to me. There's an x that wants meaning and to which meaning can be assigned. If that x is then erased permanently the meaning would ...
All of you claim that the same genotype (monozygotic twins) result in different phenotypes (slight differences in physical features and different pers...
You seem to be suggesting women are so intellectually challenged that they can't see through a ''players'' ruse. Do you think women are stupid. I thou...
self + something = meaning. something = 1) immortality + 2) happiness + 3) whatever may fancy someone You can take away the something and yet see mean...
Well the problem is feeling is a reaction and plus can't be wilfully directed. In other words it's something we can't control. Additionally feelings a...
Yes but the differences in physical structure of the brain (so you claim) can't explain differences in personality of monozygotic twins. Why? All huma...
Purpose is about finding out about one's place in The Great Chain of Being(TGCOB). It's the answer to the question ''why am I here?'' It's not enough ...
Oh I see. Are you familiar with the equations? Are they symmetrical? One problem I see is we can't test your theory. We need matter to deform space-ti...
I guess we could give a scientific perspective to it. The law of gravity applies to the entire universe and yet it also applies to the tiniest speck o...
I believe that there's purpose to life and death. So I live and will die fulfilling that purpose. Hopefully I'm right and wrong about it. Nihilism is ...
I always wondered how death destroyed meaning. Is it that only the living have meaning? Some living people seem to have a meaningless lives. Yet some ...
A question that I too wanted to ask. Thanks for asking. How does one distnguish naughty and evil? In my view the naughty are those unable to understan...
Interesting question. What do the scientific equations say? If space-time curvatures cause matter (mass) instead of the other way round (matter causin...
Superheroes aren't exclusively American. What about Greek heroes? Weren't they demi-gods with super-abilities? Also many mythologies across cultures h...
Aristotle's forms seems to be that which distinguishes one substance from another. Could Aristotle's form be translated as the atomic number of elemen...
The accuracy is higher than 50% i.e. we're likely to be correct about our assessment. People gamble with lesser odds so this level of correctness is a...
Yes. Those are my numbers. You agree though that our empathy works well as a rough estimate. For a rational being any rule must be reasonable. We can ...
@"Judaka" Empathy isn't perfect. We can't read minds but we can make a rough estimate of the physical and mental state of other people. Can't we? We c...
Where is nothing in the real world? It's just an idea and can't be physically represented. Space is the best candidate for a physical nothing but it i...
Perhaps nothing is just a concept, an abstraction. The stuff (matter and energy) aren't just mental objects; they exist in the real world. Even the va...
The @"Pippen" didn't say ''S = the set of all sets''. He said the ''E = set of everything''. I'm paraphrasing a little bit. Do you mean E = S? Why? Af...
Very interesting question although your proof seems inadequate. You're simply stating the original assertions (nihilo ex nihilo AND creatio ex nihilo)...
If I create two AI with same features wouldn't one understand the other by understanding itself. Of course it's very difficult to imagine what it's li...
What about the concept of a soul? There are two things that we associate with life: 1. The thinking mind 2. Perception, through our senses, of the ext...
I think we shouldn't take the ameba analogy too far. There's a lot we know now. Diseases, for example, were thought to be the work of evil spirits but...
This is the problem of evil. An answer that makes sense and also doesn't satisfy is that we can't comprehend God's intent or logic. Just as a child do...
Well what about time travel, one of your other favorite topics? If someone travels to the future she'd know what everyone would do but that doesn't im...
Isn't intuition subconscious logic? What we call intuition is reflexive rationality taking place at a spinal level metaphorically speaking? Since intu...
Do you have a brain anomaly because there really is no one who hasn't ever been irrational? I guess logic does have an influence on our beliefs but le...
There's no point winning against a lesser foe is there? If the opponent is equal or greater the better the taste of victory and in that case there's n...
I don't know. There's a difference between pause and stop in movies right? The former allows for resuming experience which death doesn't allow. I thin...
Suppose determinism is true. What about irrational people e.g. the insane? Aren't they part of the causal web? So, deterministic and irrational. As fo...
This would've made sense but what about the choices you made before engaging reason. The pre-reason choices sometimes don't match the post-reason ones...
I can't speak for those who are truly suffering in a bad way. I'm not qualified. However I do see situations where suicide is the only option. Please ...
Free will needs a clearer definition? I could define it as having the power to do choose uninfluenced by anything one didn't choose in the first place...
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