TheMadFool

As children it is common for us to play games. One of these games involves breaking apart toys into its components and then rebuilding. We've all done...

So, you mean to say that so long as the ship is replaced in small degrees the new ship B also has a valid claim to the sign-the ship of Theseus? You a...

Let us imagine a scenario which hopefully will make you see my POV. Ship A needs to be transported from city x to city y. However, it has to be done b...

Please check my response to Wayfarer

But which one does ''the ship of Theseus'' refer to? A or B Imagine a person A. Over the course of time his entire being is replaced at the atomic lev...

I'm sorry I didn't express myself as well as required. I do understand that we can't just throw out the entire notion of time. You posted the above an...

Thanks for seeing my POV. I may be wrong but your condition that ''the ship is not missing say more than 1% of its components at any instant'' makes n...

As per your logic we can't know anything, after all we can't take mind/consciousness from the equation. What is so great about experience anyway? It's...

You are right. Computers aren't self-aware. But I don't see how this leads to us being not self-aware.

Which theory is this? Can you elaborate?

What do you mean ''can create matter''? I've never heard of a mind create matter. Are you talking about god?

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy...Shakespeare I don't think the world is as obvious as it se...

You're a very well read member of the forum and I'm eager for some genuine spirituality. So, what about Buddhism is more convincing than the other rel...

You seem to draw a distinction between mind and brain. Can you clarify?

I agree and I suspect that many people overlook these glaring gaps in our knowledge. I tried going down that path, as you have, but I find myself dayd...

I sense Buddhist influence in such an interpretation. What is it about Buddhism you find so appealing? To me Buddhism shares a commonality with other ...

Can you explain why it is ''far more likely'' that consciousness creates matter?

Can you explain further? To me it appears like sophistry.

To the contrary karma makes sense: 1. It is in sync with casuality. Of course you must believe that everything observable in our universe is both an e...

I think you've answered your own question. Each of us is an unique combination/permutation of matter. I imagine this uniqueness defines each one of us...

You're right about the indifference people have to such issues. However, I don't think it's volitional. Rather sensory overload is to blame. We're eas...

Have a wonderful day/night as the case may be :D

I imagine that for math to work for the sun or anything else there must be a mathematical principle already in play. That is to say we discover math i...

Hmmm. You have a point there. It does look like there has to be something to feed the imagination/mind and that is what you're referring to as the phy...

If you ask me I think there's more to this reality than the materialistic interpretation that science is so fond of. Your theory is interesting becaus...

Unfortunately no but I'm an optimist and the future is so full of possibilities. At least war won't be that destructive and also without petroleum-pol...

Statistically :P there are more herbivores than carnivores. So, in nature, it is more likely to encounter a harmless leaf eater than a ferocious carni...

I wonder too whether there is any limit to this universe. The scales involved, from the atomic to the universe itself, are literally unimaginable. Tha...

Morality doesn't make sense outside of a social setup. ''Moral'' and ''immoral'' are meaningless to a hermit in a cave. Morality is a property of inte...

One way to approach this question is to think of the time before we were born i.e. before we came into existence. If anything, that time matches quite...

They say ''necessity is the mother of invention''. I'm sure human ingenuity will carry the day for us. Also look at the upside. Without fuel to run th...

It also doesn't refute homosexuality. I think so too. There are too many variables to consider (religion, law, disease, children, etc.) and we don't a...

To me god is an ideal of goodness, justice, and other virtues. It is these same ideals that the future AI will possess. So, instead of imagining scena...

I see what you mean. Basically there are two things: perception and the thing being perceived. You seem to think that perception requires a thing that...

I wonder if the OP is correct on this one. Is the simple ''innatness'' of homosexuality truly used to justify it? If yes then the OP is right - pedoph...

My neighbor fell in love with my wife. Question, was it you?! :-O

If you're saying I didn't think of it you're right. However, others have meditated on the issue and I believe there's a paradox or two in that assumpt...

Oh ok. The soul. The general conception of this term seems to be that 1. It is eternal 2. It is the real you Doesn't 1 answer your question for you or...

First let me see if I understand your argument: You're using the fact that we can imagine as proof of the physical world. According to you we can only...

Well, given that we've continued to exist in the past, one is in good health, and there's no strong evidence to believe the contrary, it is likely tha...

I agree.

Father Richard Rohr needs religion but does religion need father Richard Rohr?

What I'd focus on is the unknowable nature of the problem. We don't know how a person will evaluate his own life. Will he think it enjoyable and flour...

That's all I'm asking for. Evil does not necessitate the nonexistence of god.

So, no such thing as a fallacy then?

So, there's no such thing as fallacious reasoning then?!

I accept your criticism. However, one point I want to get across. What is relevant or important depends on the circumstances. The strong problem of ev...

A child may choose to accept parts of a parent's personality and reject/modify others. She has no logical obligation to accept everything the parent d...

So you're saying physics, as we know it, is sufficient but not necessary for life? If you are, I agree. However, what do you make of the other posters...

Perhaps I commit the fallacy of accident.