TheMadFool

You claim that we can kill animals because we know for a fact that they don't have morals. I'm taking that to its logical conclusion: If I know for a ...

Ok so, what's your definition of understanding? Please don't repeat yourself by saying, "...as illustrated by my examples...".

Aponia? Absence of pain (aponia) is a cakewalk compared to the presence of pleasure (hedonia?).

If everybody had to be attacked by a lion to know lions are dangerous, we would have a world full of amputees, horribly scarred people, not to mention...

School of hard knocks, not everyone wants to go there.

Thank you!

So, if we ask a group of grade 1 students to carry out the math operation 1 + 1, they aren't doing things, we are using them to do things.

Automated Theorem Proving I'm no mathematician but if math proofs are anything like proofs in philosophy, semantics is a cornerstone. One has to to un...

https://youtu.be/wFkFf6Zu8i4 1. Is AI conscious & human? OR 2. Is something wrong with your definition Pop?

Thanks for trying to clarify the issue for me. Much obliged. Please tell me, 1. What understanding is, if not mapping? 2. Whatever thinking is, it see...

Indeed, good people are those who follow rules/laws i.e. they willingly, with little resistance, give up (some of) their freedom for the greater good....

So, the idea behind topology is to discover whether one object with given geometric properties can be transformed into another object i.e. it's kinda ...

Why do so many people believe in miracles and the supernatural? The bottom line is that these - miracles, the supernatural - are inconsistencies or co...

I like the sound of that. Power gets a bad rap not because it's in and of itself bad but because it attracts the wrong kinda crowd. One could say that...

The laws of nature, all together, their constancy and how they orchestrate all phenomena constitutes normality. Ergo, an abnormality would/should refe...

Natural simply means routine, the usual, normal - the emphasis is on consistency in how the world behaves. For instance, gravity has always been aroun...

:ok: It matters for the simple reason that the difference between animals and humans (moral sense is your example) can be found as a difference betwee...

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If you ask me, a high IQ eliminates the need for experience and vice versa. Of course, we would be better off having the best of both worlds but if gi...

Thanks for your comment. I just watched a video on minds & machines - The Turing Test & Searle's Chinese Room Argument. As per the video a computer th...

Yes, that's the other issue I wanted to discuss. For example the type specimen of quality has been, if I'm not mistaken, color i.e. people are under t...

Almost Half Of The Pregnancies In The US Are UNPLANNED (The Washington Post) I guess those who really cares about the future of their children are in ...

My point is rather simple: The Problem With Power is that it can link up with evil. You know what happens then, right?

You're evading the question. You said, all that matters to goodness is loyalty and hence my question about a band of genocidal maniacs people who are ...

I did but I also mentioned how goodness/benevolence seems to be a must to prevent problems.

Nice! I have no theory of my own regarding Neil deGrasse Tyson's views on the matter. :up: Thanks a million. I've saved the page for later.

:chin: Please explain how what seems to be a deeply entrenched fear of power (negative connotation) vis-à-vis good/bad is irrelevant.

Power is, as I see it, simply a measure of the scope and the intensity of the effect something/someone can have. So, for instance, the president of th...

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Perhaps you're unable to put into words your intuitions on the matter. Happens all the time to even the best among us. Do try to come up with a cohere...

To continue, miracles (violations of the laws of nature) are, on the whole, performed/experienced by the...er...GOOD guys! :chin:

What do the arrows represent? Anyone?

Well, I attempted, as best as any math-illiterate person can, to mathematize an argument form like, say, modus ponens, but no success there and it see...

How? Why? Please explain. Thanks

@"Wayfarer" By the way, Roger Penrose has made a name for himself in tesselation mathematics (tiling) and receptor-agonist theory of how smell and tas...

@"Wayfarer" :fire: Yep! I don't think The Unreasonable Effectiveness Of Math In The Natural Sciences is just a coincidence. Coincidences are one-off e...

An eye-opener, thanks! It doesn't seem to vitiate my point though which is we can mathematize sense perception. Right? To the extent that math is defi...

:grin: It's a complicated argument for me. Sorry if my volte-face offends you. Not intentional.

Non-vegetarians could be omnivores (not meat only). Carnivores feed exclusively on meat. I dunno!

First off what are traits that matter to the issue? A trait, insofar as the name a trait argument is concerned, is either a quality possessed by anima...

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The antonym of fact is not false, it's hypothetical/fiction. In other words, facts are non-imaginary, true propositions (about this world we're denize...

Clarification Some here are of the view that good and bad (morality) is an issue of definition. This, in my opinion, implies that if I were to swap th...

Possible but not necessary.

So, a group of genocidal maniacs who are loyal to each other are good? Why the hell then are they put on trial and sometimes sent to the gallows? Some...

Update I don't know if this is correct but last I checked odor and flavor (chemical) work like jigsaw puzzles - the agonist (scent/flavor) physically ...

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You're, I'm afraid, mistaken. There are two issues at stake: 1. The difference between animals and humans (interspecies). 2. The difference between on...

In sadomasochism, the experience of pleasure/pain, no matter how weird, doesn't change because you changed the meaning of a word. It should if we coul...