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February 09, 2019 at 05:38
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February 09, 2019 at 05:37
I don't think the interaction is all one-way. We observe the world and discern patterns and we project these patterns back onto the world. We don't si...
February 08, 2019 at 12:13
I don't think it has do with time but the distance too is a geometric series, no? What do you get if you add all the terms in the series (1/2 + 1/4 + ...
February 08, 2019 at 12:05
Zeno's paradox is a mismatch between a priori and a posteriori knowledge. I think it's wonderful. Do we trust logic and math or do we trust our eyes? ...
February 08, 2019 at 11:08
Imagine there's a jigsaw puzzle making machine x. x is given a set of rules y it must follow and then allowed to construct pieces of a puzzle. x const...
February 08, 2019 at 08:04
Consider a 500 gm block of cheese. Let's say we choose an arbitrary mass x gm and calculate how many x gm are in the block. The operation would be 500...
February 08, 2019 at 07:55
The aim of gender neutrality is a noble one. Stereotypes aren't rational but are all gender-based roles irrational stereotypes? I don't think so. What...
February 08, 2019 at 07:48
Psychology can't be trusted to the extent required to make a good judgment. To be fair the subject is a difficult one.
February 08, 2019 at 07:07
What is a Freudian ego?
February 08, 2019 at 06:32
Moral principles seem to converge with time. If I'm right to assume that moral ''progress'' is correlated with the progress of rationality, it would i...
February 08, 2019 at 06:22
I don't know if we can so categorically say that religious faith is a bad thing. Religion has been a cause of many atrocities but they also kept the f...
February 08, 2019 at 05:27
I agree that the numbers are huge but given enough time even the most improbable will occur simply because it isn't an impossibility.
February 08, 2019 at 03:42
Even if the experiment failed to meet standards, what it shows is that what we experience as goodness and evil may have a single biochemical cause. Th...
February 08, 2019 at 03:39
One could say our ego is too small for itself. It realizes its own insignificance and, dismayed by it, seeks greatness - something beyond the tiny thi...
February 07, 2019 at 12:31
I'd have to argue that we there are limits to our senses' resolution. For example our eyes won't be able to tell the difference between 1 micrometer f...
February 07, 2019 at 10:51
Could you trust yourself?
February 07, 2019 at 07:02
Faith may be a door that let's in hate and all the evils that follow from it but remember it was and is a door opened to let in goodness. Evil just ha...
February 07, 2019 at 06:46
Agreed. It's a tough task, if not impossible. There must be a way out of this mess. The rich getting richer, the poor getting poorer and the middle-cl...
February 07, 2019 at 06:28
If I understand you correctly, do you mean that moral theories and norms derived thereof are better or worse in a narrow sense, applying only to certa...
February 07, 2019 at 06:22
The history of politics is an experiment in governance. Autocracy, oligarchy have failed. Democracy has prevailed and communism has had to morph into ...
February 07, 2019 at 04:51
If causality, as understood, holds, then it would be impossible to kill your grandfather. Another thing that can happen is the universe may enter a di...
February 07, 2019 at 04:43
I think it's possible to be better or worse in a holistic way. Imagine person A is morally upright, good at football and bad at chess. Imagine person ...
February 07, 2019 at 04:36
Some people have argued that there is no such thing as human nature. Me, I think there is and all our problems arise from it. Look at socialism/commun...
February 07, 2019 at 03:47
:rofl: You have a point. I guess statistics doesn’t mean much to you.
February 06, 2019 at 13:42
I understand. I can't stress how important equality is. I see it as fight against discrimination which is irrational. However, there are many factual ...
February 06, 2019 at 12:02
That this question is being asked speaks volumes. Is human creativity such a big deal? Consider a ''normal'' computer and an AI computer. There's noth...
February 06, 2019 at 11:10
:ok: Thanks
February 06, 2019 at 09:50
I wonder if an alien could, just by observing human behavior, understand what we think of as good/bad? It's said that the golden rule is the most comm...
February 06, 2019 at 09:49
I'm not convinced. To be frank I'm the type who likes to go beyond science and materialism. Even with such a strong motivation I haven't found any evi...
February 06, 2019 at 09:35
I'm still having difficulty as to how the unfortunate cop has a choice. Even if I grant that the cop has freedom, his choices are limited to 1 or 2 de...
February 06, 2019 at 09:28
Opens up a door I don't want to walk through. Here I am supposing there's ''good'' reason for blaming one person, in this case Hitler, for the evils o...
February 06, 2019 at 09:20
It seems that gender neutrality is about gender discrimination. Does equality preclude differences? I think a good part of equality requires respect o...
February 06, 2019 at 09:12
Perhaps it's not a type but a degree issue. It's not that you make a profit, it's the amount of profit one wants. I guess it's a choice between enough...
February 06, 2019 at 07:27
How does teleology without God work? Are you saying there's purpose but no origin of this purpose? I would say if there's design (teleology) then you ...
February 06, 2019 at 06:28
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February 05, 2019 at 15:30
Thanks for the link. I guess I was trying to explain consciousness in physical terms. How does one explain brain damage and the subsequent loss of men...
February 05, 2019 at 14:15
Good point. An evolving system is better than a static one-off design. But for whom? If "us" it makes complete sense because our knowledge is incomple...
February 05, 2019 at 14:00
That means the universe has no teleology. Shouldn’t it be having one if your theory is true?
February 05, 2019 at 13:06
Thanks for the clarification. What about the degree of blame assigned to Nazis. Hitler is literally blamed for the whole thing. Doesn't this show that...
February 05, 2019 at 06:38
One more thing. Imagine two worlds of fish and water, A and B. World B has a God but world A doesn't. World A corresponds to only mechanism and world ...
February 05, 2019 at 06:32
Teleology means things are goals driven. It would amount to saying things like evolution is aiming at self-aware, intelligent beings like humans. On t...
February 05, 2019 at 06:22
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February 05, 2019 at 06:00
Well, death is my proof. There’s no difference between me alive and me dead in terms of structure - everything (cells, tissue, organs) is in the same ...
February 05, 2019 at 05:04
Wouldn’t Kant have to explain why the noumena is inaccessible? What’s Kant’s criteria for accessing the noumena? He seems to be saying phenomena are a...
February 05, 2019 at 04:44
You mention a distinction between metaphysical free will and a legal free will. Are you saying that the latter is being constrained and not the former...
February 05, 2019 at 04:32
Bayes' theorem? I'm not sure. Google may help.
February 04, 2019 at 17:59
This seems a bit difficult to swallow. If someone were to force you to do something i.e. you have no choice in the matter, as is the case in the OP, w...
February 04, 2019 at 17:53
I suspected as much. Is Ockham's razor applicable?
February 04, 2019 at 17:43
A private world then, this noumena... I can't see how noumena can be talked of though. Did Kant simply posit noumena and then say nothing about it?
February 04, 2019 at 13:33