Why the asymmetry - predators being more intelligent than prey animals - you think? The most intelligent species, debatable, on this planet at least i...
What is life without choice and what is choice without life? Luckily or not, we can't have, as some like to say, the best of both worlds. Pragmaticall...
What's the difference between me trying to express my exclusively private experiences to someone and an alien, from another dimension, shareable but n...
Key ideas vis-à-vis Wittgenstein's general thesis: 1. Ostensive definitions. Are they any good? They seem to be. 2. Consistency of word usage. Memory ...
A = \{Alan \space Turing\} W = \{Ludwig \space Wittgenstein\} L = \{This \space Sentence \space Is \space False\} A \cap W \cap L = Boot \space Strapp...
Choice is meaningless without there being choices to choose from. There is no meaning to life. In what sense can I then claim that I chose a life with...
Socrates, while he was awaiting execution, had to prove the immortality of the soul to his clique of devoted followers. He first went about proving th...
I'm watching a video series on philosophy. It has the following to say about beliefs vis-à-vis testimony 1. David Hume: We should believe testimonies ...
The ideal (decision) is quite separate from the actual (decision). You'll find bad decisions call this gap home. Good decisions (wise choices) are wha...
It just doesn't feel right to me. Here's an equation/formula, a rather simple one, F = ma (Newton). In English F = ma can be rendered as the magnitude...
How did you gain this insight into the dark side of logic and why are you trying to prove it? Is logic like the legendary ouroboros, consuming itself,...
What is a choice? Perhaps the truth lies between someone saying "This is not what I wanted to do but I had to do it" and "This is not what I had to do...
Ok, here's a little something to ponder upon. I'd love it if @"180 Proof" weighs in. 1. Epistemic responsibility is, well, a really good idea. Beliefs...
The brain is spatial. Is the mind the same thing as the brain? We could say so, for the time being; until and unless we discover some kind of evidence...
So anything that affects physical stuff is itself physical? Isn't that begging the question?, whether the nonphysical can/can't affect the physical as...
Well, here's the deal. What's common between a lump of clay (physical) and a field (you claim it too is physical). Wittgenstein? @"Banno", see anythin...
For starters, thoughts don't seem to be physical e.g how much does the thought of Descartes weigh, how much space does it occupy? Of course one could ...
The short answer: Yes. The long answer: Yeeeeesssss! We can do away with the empty ceremonies & tedious formalities (good for good's sake :rofl: ) and...
I tend to agree. If mary had complete physical knowledge of red, it should include the very physical act of seeing red. Yet, in the thought experiment...
Very perceptive of you to diagnose my condition accurately. What I see is the problem how, math is a language, a perfectly sensible expression (equati...
Sorry if you took offense. It was unintended. This is where you slip up I'm afraid. This is exactly what's up for debate. Is experiencing red complete...
It takes time to understand these things. Allow me to explain: In the bodily and mental activity of seeing red, is the mind not involved? How come the...
The whole point of Mary's room thought experiment seems to be that Mary knows everything physical about the color red and yet, when Mary sees red, she...
If time is unreal what are colors and sounds, these phenomena being defined in terms of time (Hertz)? :chin: In a Timeless Universe, how are colors an...
Challenge To All Most posters have denied that there are contradictions in quantum mechanics. Despite my doubts I'll give you that, ok, there are no c...
1. We've been told, incessantly in philosophy and science forums, that we have to change theory to fit facts and not the other way round, basically to...
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