The smallest amount of time physics can "make sense of" is planck time. So, yes, in a way, time is discrete. Another way to look at it is to consider ...
I think the cynic isn't disappointed. Content? I don't think so. What does that say about a cynic's mental health? Is s/he really a wise wo/man or s/h...
Perhaps a fluid model will help to make sense of the Trinity. Three drops of water in different locations are distinct and have their own identity BUT...
All I was pointing out was there's no evidence to suggest a Big Crunch. Not that this is an unalterable truth. There's always the possibility that we ...
The whole point of antinatalism is "Life is terrible". I think "Life was terrible" and also "Life will be better". Perhaps I'm being too optimistic or...
The whole problem of morality arises with the haphazard nature of evolution. I've heard of people saying "X was far ahead of his/her time." or "The wo...
The Prime Mover argument is based on the impossibility of an infinite regress in time. If there was infinite time to travel how did we ever get here? ...
Drugs are harmful to oneself and its effects spread out from there like a wave into everything else. It's a global disaster. However, it must be under...
You seem to distinguish between truth and lies. However, if we're plugged into the matrix then what's the difference between fact and fiction? And we ...
I don't know. We can count all mental experience on our finger tips. For instance we think logically or irrationally. We feel love or hate, etc. At ma...
I don't know. If you look at literature I think you'll see a lot of stories that revolve around human imperfection. It's a cliche that can't be missed...
The way we are is not our choice. Hmmm. What do you make of people who change the way they are through education, reflection, experience, insight, etc...
There are uncountable things in our world. How does one count love or hate? However, we're also very quick to compare things. Who loves me more? What ...
Perhaps it helps to compare altruism to selfishness. Yes, altruism eventually serves the self. You feel better or become famous or whatever. But, the ...
The tool seems almost perfect but tools need people to use them and people are not perfect. They have emotions and vices. Combine it with a powerful w...
We can't get over over the hurdle of time. A cause must precede its effect. Our whole understanding of causality is based on this basic premise. One c...
Causation. 1. Temporal priority: Indeed the general consensus, to put it mildly, is to have the cause precede the effect. The accepted definition of c...
Thanks for the explanation. I'm just wondering. How does one access the external? After all isn't it true that we only know what our senses (including...
N I don't know. Why do people take miracles as evidence for the divine? Miracles may be done by a time-traveler human on the unsuspecting people of th...
I don't know how the whole picture turns out but... Everything in biology has a function. Brains think, lungs breathe, hearts pump and so on. Is funct...
Isn't Utilitarianism maximizing happiness? As for the the time-perspective you mention I agree. Consequences are very hard to predict given that the c...
Yes, given a reaction time of, say, 1 millisecond, we live in a world where meaningful events take longer than that. Thus, making experience instantan...
Biologically, happiness and pain are chemical reactions. They're complex and yet to be understood but if they are just chemical reactions they can be ...
This scenario has a human counterpart viz. slavery. Slaves obeyed their masters very much like the android would. We could say their masters flipped t...
I saw a documentary on ww2 dogfights. A fighter pilot has to make a guesstimate (is that the right word?) about where the enemy plane in front of him ...
As far as I know, infinity is a quantity, so a number, that has no fixed value. It goes on forever. Think of * as a number. An infinity of * is still ...
The moment an individual becomes self-aware the notion of unity (one) will naturally arise. Coming into contact with other such beings will automatica...
I think you have a point. Consider an event A. In terms of necessary causes we can field events x and y. These events (x and y) set the stage for A. N...
My answer: x=stone God can't lift 1. If God can create x then God defeats himself 2. If God defeats himself then He is omnipotent 3. If God can't crea...
You're right. I think we should be in the know about all forms of deception, especially self-deception as it's harder to realize and avoid. But... Aft...
I understand it's a statisical(?) argument. If a,b,c...x,y,z could cause an event then it doesn't matter which of them actually causes it since the ev...
Mass mobilization, causally speaking, requires a conjunction of opportunities which I feel is not within the reach of many of us. Add to that the fact...
Also... I think we need to relook into scientific thought. How we've framed the world in terms of scientific paradigms e.g. seeing the world and all i...
Sorry. Didn't realize I was being a dick. Does that make it better or worse? I don't know. Anyway, the future is so difficult to predict with any degr...
Deception, self-deception, implies a truth exists. That truth, if I catch your drift, is absurdity or meaninglessness. But absurdity doesn't prevent u...
God didn't create evil. God created people with the capability of choice. It is our choices, the bad ones, that creates evil. If we could create AI wo...
Perhaps the defintion of cause itself needs to be looked at. Anything could be a cause for the pencil tipping over (generic cause) BUT the actual even...
What makes a ''person'', if that is what you mean by ''I''? Per logic one is a specific person based on difference. The genus-difference mode of defin...
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