TheMadFool

Interesting. So, change is impossible. There are only two possibilities: 1. Something is 2. Nothing is Change can't come from 1 because it already is ...

What's interesting is our canines have almost disappeared. Carnivores usually have large canines. Also, civilization began with cultivation of wheat, ...

To me, evolution is a great concept and, some say, proven through many instances of observations made in the natural world. Microbes evolve to become ...

Perhaps we can qualify your assertion. Infinity isn't an exact/definite number. Rather it is a number that is indefinite. Also, if I'm correct, number...

A book in totality may be inconsistent but there may be true claims in it. I mean the Bible has many elements - historical claims, moral claims, scien...

Deer are predictable. They'll eat grass and run if startled. Are we not animals? What's so interesting about our predictability?

The point, if it's one, is the question of willpower is something like that of altruism. No matter how good you are there's always some benefit to the...

I don't think any region, western or eastern, has a ''civilization''. A ''true'' civilization should have harmonized itself with nature, thus enabling...

Lies, Damned Lies and Statistics. In defense of your friend, statistics is particulary concerned with human biases. In fact it is designed to eliminat...

How does that challenge work? I believe thinking is unique but is it so in reality or is it simply our inability to explain it (in physical terms) tha...

Education is necessary but not sufficient. Necessary because without it we couldn't make sense of the world we live in. Not sufficient because it by i...

Thank you for the clarification. If I understand you correctly, you mean the observer by ''knowing subject'' and you consider it different from the ob...

You're right. The fault doesn't lie with valuation. Rather the degree of valuation is disproportionate. See above.

I understand but what is valued by society? A technician or a discoverer or inventor. A nurse is technician who only knows how to do something but s/h...

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What is interesting is the ''hard'' in The Hard Problem of Consciousness. Why didn't Chamlers use ''impossible''? It seems that Chamlers was aware and...

My point is willpower is a just a gimmick. There'a position A, where you are. Then there's position C, where you want to be. But there's this position...

This isn't a proof issue or an argument that needs rigorous treatment. Skeptical theism, if I got it right, states that it is ''possible'' that we can...

I don't think evaluating all ''possible'' options as anti-reason. To the contrary considering God as hyper-intelligent and, therefore, beyond the gras...

Willpower is needed to cross a hurdle. I mean a negative experience may required to be digested before getting to your happy zone. So, I see nothing g...

What about your experience impressed your self the most?

So you think morality or conscience is based on something other than empathy? Well, doing an immoral act is associated with guilt and remorse and ethi...

They worked for it, so it's theirs.

Those who've succeeded in capitalism were once poor. They made their start from the lowest rung in society didn't they? So, it's quite sad and odd tha...

Skeptical theism, as you've described, is based off ''possibility''. It is possible that God is hyper-intelligent. Given his omni-powers it is wise to...

What is morality based on?

Perhaps they were thinking ahead? Visionaries do that out of habit I believe. So, as the earliest computer inventors sat in their offices they saw a p...

So, you can imagine a moral theory in the absence of empathy? I don't see animals having a debate on murder. Lack of empathy is a principal characteri...

I have some good news and bad news. The good news is capitalism affords equal opportunity to everyone (the poor and rich included) The bad news is all...

But and that's a big ''but'', the coughing contagion has to have meaning if it is sustain its propagation among the people. If I don't understand or, ...

A king might choose to be a philosopher but the converse is not true. Power needs to be checked and wisdom is the best tool for that. Wisdom checks it...

This theory runs into the problem of having to find the first authority. Let's call him/her x. Who was x's authority if morality is based on authority...

Yes. This is another dimension of understanding that I forgot. Direct experience is also part of the semantic content of words/terms. We ''understand'...

I don't know. I guess it's time to draw a distinction between ''should'' and ''could''. Of the former I have no doubt but the latter seems too high a ...

I agree. Some jobs are ethically questionable. For instance working in the tobacco industry, atomic bomb making, etc. is not a job the morally enlight...

Perhaps the words “different” and “same” are used in an idiosyncratic way. The three could be different in terms of some thing but same as in they’re ...

While I don't want to rain on your parade it could also be that Christians simply lacked a word to convey that sense of ultimate perfection they were ...

Music has evolved so much. If I'm not mistaken, it began with songs sung by our ancestors. Then came along instruments. What followed was a combinatio...

I think you're on the right track here. When we say work is good I think we're saying it in contrast to alternatives like robbery, fraud, murder for m...

What is morally vague doesn't get written down in legal texts. Only those ethical ''truths'' we're sure of are legally binding. All I'm saying is lega...

Continuum to me implies a smooth transition between two points. I agree that, numerically, we need to define a unit before we can make sense of a give...

:up: thanks

But isn't that assuming dualism of some kind? Reason has causal import but reason isn't an immaterial thing as of necessity. Right?

So, what can model a true continuum? I'm a bit confused here. I consider the real numbers to be an adequate model of any continuum for we can measure ...

Being rational doesn't mean we have freewill. Does it? We can program computers to be rational. In fact that's all they can be. What are we left with?...

Kant is right but not all the time. Moral norms should have no exceptions as if they did then there would be no reason not to violate them as per whim...

Why are we special? That's what needs to be proven. One interesting thing that I'd like your opinion on is our ability to imagine alternatives. We get...

This is just another way of stating the omniscience-freewill paradox. I was thinking about this and haven't made any progress whatsoever in this regar...

Well there's a parents child relationship between immoral and illegal. Morality fathers legality. Only the most important moral considerations are cod...

As far as I know determinism is an argued position. I think it's an argument from analogy. Everything around us seems to follow the laws of nature and...