TheMadFool

Sex itself is immoral by your reckoning. So casual sex must be too. Giving birth to children can result, by some people's (mine too I think) logic, in...

This is strange. We pride ourselves as being human, distanced from the rest of the animal kingdom by our brain and what it can do. Why begrudge people...

Guiliani may be a lawyer:lol:

As far as I can see the term ''non-physical'' has an empty extension - there are no non-physical things. Consciousness is just a pattern arising from ...

I see it's not as simple as I thought but I see an infinite regress in the making. Consider theories A, B, C. Each has its own axioms. You're saying t...

Flat-earthers prefer to ignore the ''evidence''. I want to clarify that it's not knowledge of the physical world I'm concerned with. What remains is w...

''Godsplaining'' is the right term I believe. I think it refers to the whole collection of god-beliefs. Theology as reasoned analysis of what I think ...

Yes but you're being vague. Can you please be specific. Well, we agree on some points. It's just a hunch but it's not that difficult to see that relig...

I thought a priori meant arrived at by reason alone and a posteriori meant requiring, in addition to reason, observation. The issue I find relevant in...

You have a point. But what I'm saying is the kind of subjectivity you're referring to is pre-logic i.e. they're fed into our logic CPU, if I may use a...

Let me present this from a psychological perspective.... Belief in God is, in essence, a culmination of the ''sense of wonder'' - a key ingredient in ...

Sorry to hear that. Subjectivity, by definition, means variation with the observer. Logic, if you start with premises agreed upon, will always lead to...

All born in the 1800s. The rest of the list is made of people who only ''confirm'' what had been theorized by people who believed in a god.

I might have an idea on what subjectivity and objectivity mean. I think it all arises from the standards we set in epistemology. What counts as knowle...

Really? It's just a coincidence? Could be...never know. However one can't miss the fact that this generation is missing the luminaries that populated ...

My knowledge on history isn't so good but I doubt that early scientists were ''pretending'' to believe in God. If I may say so, their works were consi...

There's a difference between knowledge and practice. People know smoking is unhealthy but they still smoke.

Something that interests me too. My take on this is we can't disprove that we're in a simulation. Suppose Mr. x lives in a universe u simulates a univ...

My guess... The real numbers are represented in terms of length or distance with a number line. The number line is a model for real numbers. But the r...

I'd like to know how I misunderstand. Thanks. My simple understanding of the matter: There are 3 possible answers 25%, 50% and 60%. There are 4 option...

We have to look into this further. There are only two possibilities. Scenario 1. A)25% is the same as D)25%. If this is so then we have only 3 choices...

Are you talking about free will or luck? May be both? If no free will then luck. Right? I do agree that we don't choose our preferences and we all kno...

True. I was just surfing the net and came across an interesting article on synthetic meat - first mentioned in a book ''Two Planets'' 1897. What do yo...

Thanks for your replies. Just wondering about something else. I heard someone say ''Blessed are those who suffer.''. I don't know how to make sense of...

Well, I think change is the only unchanging truth. If there's wisdom worth holding onto then that's it. Doesn't that mean wisdom needs to update itsel...

Thanks for clarifying. What I think is... When we calculate the probability and say we have 50% chance of it being 25% we are assuming A)25% is the sa...

Play is important for both kids and adults. Perhaps life is a game and making it interesting is as important as finding truths.

:up: I think it's a bit sad though . We can't find the truth. So let's settle for ''interesting''.

Yes. I agree. I guess my life ain't bad. I wonder how the sick and poor feel about it though.

Thanks for the information. I don't know a lot of physics but let me point out a relevant difference. QM applies to the atomic realm. We, however, liv...

I don't get it. There are only 3 choices 25%, 50% and 60%. Random selection would be a chance of 1/3=33.33%.

Well thought and well said. Thanks. Please read below. I think I've made a mistake. It isn't self-awareness that is the cause of suffering but a misun...

Can you tell me how? Thanks. Ok. Can you help me with understanding that? Thanks

@"Wayfarer" From a Buddhist perspective the ego/self is the ultimate cause of suffering. Nirvana is literally the realization that there's no self (an...

The word ''art'' is very vague but I think art is a medium of expression. The message may be everything under the sun and the medium too has a similar...

That's why I think fatigue is a good thing. Eventually we all get tired. The fighting can't go on forever. Boredom may be even better.

Well, you seem to forget something very basic - human nature. I know it's a very vague term but I'm referring to general human drives and mentalities....

Don't we feel for those who are intellectually challenged. We don't go around mistreating people with disabilities do we? We do call severely brain da...

I read somewhere that wisdom = good knowledge. ''Good'' is an adjective'' but ''knowledge'' is a noun. Said otherwise we first have to find knowledge ...

My limited understanding of the PSR 1. Every proposition must have a reason 2. Every event has a cause 3. Every entity has a reason/cause for its exis...

Plants have no nervous system to feel pain. I agree but what is critical in ethics is the ability to feel the pain of others. Yes, a pain sensing abil...

Wisdom is basically knowledge. Knowledge has a shelf-life I believe. History is evidence for that right? Flat earth - round earth is a good example.

Morality is dependent on empathy - to be able to feel for other people. Even a schoolboy knows that our empathy is not universal. Rather it decreases ...

Why? ''I'', what it stands for (self-identity), is more closer to pain than it is to joy. If one is to believe Buddhism, and it's a very well-reasoned...

Wisdom moves from the past into the future. But the future is not like the past except in the mundane sense of things always falling to Earth (gravity...

This is a puzzle to me. A p-zombie, the way you describe it, should be indistinguishable from a person who actually is conscious. Isn't this a ''dead'...

Very confusing post. How would a non-conscious being reflect on its own condition? Doesn't the term ''zombie'' specifically deny self-awareness of any...

You're right. Pain is a terrible thing and having the power to inflict it is, in a way, a curse. Let's not get into that but I do agree with you that ...

I don't know if getting the right number in a game of chance can be described as ''winning''. Anyway, lotteries are designed to make everyone, except ...

I mean we're quite sure that philosophy is a ''good'' thing but morality itself seems to be beyond philosophy's reach.