If one studies humanity it may be possible to find general truths about us - our values, hopes, desires, thinking, fears, behavior or other categories...
Are you referring to creativity? A book I read states that creativity consists of combing old ideas into new ones. For instance a phone = electricity ...
Well, if I were a detective I'd notice that the golden rule popped up in so many culturally and geographically isolated societies. What could explain ...
I think comprehension sans consciousness isn't an unattainable goal for computers. Since comprehension is about meaning I laid out the basics of it in...
Thanks but how about ''a word of truth is better than an entire library of lies'' All in all, your warning heeded, his book does have truth in it. If ...
I find this issue (freedom of speech) a childish matter. A philosopher, like you, would recognize sound logic and see truth from falsity. You're, well...
Well, isn't this the classic subjectivity vs objectivity dichotomy. That such a distinction exists seems to support the Latin maxim. The relation is a...
I don't know how to say this but... Imagine thinking to be a tool, like a hammer. In Descartes' argument the hammer (thinking) is a subject and is bei...
Well, if contradictions are allowed, the word "possible" loses meaning. Possibility and impossibility imply constraints to worlds. If there are none t...
I hope we're talking about the same thing - potentiality. The chain of causation relevant to potentiality can be extended into the past and the future...
I guess it's like optical magnification. Our eyes may have a resolution of 1mm. An ordinary light microscope can resolve 1micrometer and electron micr...
Truth can evoke many kinds of emotions. You deny that nothing is gained or lost in antinatalist contraception. That's not true. In the context of an i...
Everybody seems to know what a possible world is - any world without a contradiction. Does logical necessity imply existential necessity? What do you ...
May be if we view this as potentiality it'll make sense. A person, before birth, is nonexistent and , therefore, can't be deprived of or gifted with a...
What I'm surprised with is you agreeing that an observation of thinking has to be made and, in the same breath, saying Descartes' statement is a prior...
By dystopia or hell, if you prefer, I include ALL negative experiences and so those that you mention above are part of my thought experiment. My point...
1. I think . If I think then I exist Therefore, 3. I exist An argument can't be categorized as synthetic or analytic. The argument is a posteriori bec...
Yes, you're right. The way I see it, rationality always needs a starting point and that has to be agreed by consensus if we're to see eye to eye at al...
Like I suspected but could be mistaken, change is essential for the concept of time. So, the universe at rest isn't changing and ergo, no time. What o...
I'm going to take a human perspective here. There are two things humans fear: 1. Pain 2. Death Between the two above there's a gradation as in a littl...
But 4-4=0. 0 isn't nonsense. Likewise the infinity of natural numbers isn't nonsense. Infinity + 1 = Infinity but just as you're not allowed to divide...
Great thought experiments. An eye-opener. 1. There are experiences people don't want 2. Suffering is weighted more than happiness So, 3. Nonexistence ...
I've tried the following: 1. Being the only species, on this planet, capable of rational inquiry, comprehension and feeling, we should carry this acci...
I guess if antilatalism states life is awful enough to be not worth it then they have a point. However, are they right on this? Hell/dystopia is unequ...
Well, probability is usually introduced to beginners with coins, dice and cards. Flipping a coin or throwing dice involve force vectors, mass, etc. Al...
You make a pertinent point here. The average opinion of the people, on morals and antinatalism, can be viewed as objective. It then comes to be that a...
I don't think you're actually talking about memory here. Distraction takes your mind off of something. Say there's a problem you're facing and you jus...
But isn't this the mistaken belief that infinity is like other numbers, which it isn't. If that's the way you approach the problem then zero is also n...
Infinity is counterintuitive, is the comment I usually encounter. That it's illogical may not be true. How many natural numbers are there? Well, I thi...
What are your moral views based on? If suppose your moral theory was x. Is it possible that x causes harm and unhappiness and would you, then, still m...
I said we can forget unwittingly. I also said forgetting could be a blessing sometimes. What I meant was: 1. We have an urge to remember 2. It isn't p...
Well, if you consider how far humans have ''progressed'', everything is an experiment, including us. Haven't we evolved enough? At least some of have ...
There can be no objective truth in what is inherently subjective. Antinatalism, if I'm correct, needs, for it to make its case, suffering and pain to ...
As I was saying to andrewk our minds have evolved ''faster'' than our bodies. Our body needs meat and our mind informs us that it's immoral. Like you ...
Thanks for pointing out my poor choice of words. Do you see, then, the irony (paradox?) that the most violent species, humans, are the ones troubled b...
Well, I don't know how to say this but perhaps the word ''relative'' is apt. Relative to the police with clubs, the unarmed but determined protesters ...
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