I'm not sure but the word "prove" seems to encompass both the rigor of deduction and the uncertainties of induction and abduction. Your objection seem...
It must've come up in the preceding discussions but here's what I like about science. There's an almost obsessive desire to legitimize one's work by g...
@"Amalac" Now I get it. Apologies if I've hampered the discussion. Sextus Empiricus seems to be saying this: 1. If Socrates died then either Socrates ...
Excuse me! In my defense, the current mathematical, scientific and neuroscientific paradigms can't seem to be able to get the study of consciousness o...
Sextus Empiricus' argument is vacuous if he states that Socrates died twice is entailed by it. Died twice implies he already died once and the ball is...
You read my mind! :up: If I may be allowed some further speculation, the mind seems to be capable of so much more than we give it credit for. The "......
So he died once before! Problem solved! If Sextum Empiricus claims that he died once before, necessarily to have died twice, then Sextus Empircus has ...
Where's the inconsistency? Hmmmm...Lemme think about it. Let's start with the definition of physicalism: everything is matter and energy. Secondly, So...
Sorry, can't access those files. Corrupted sectors as per self-diagnostic reports. Will get back to you if I can recover those files. Until then, you'...
Good question! For starters, physical/bodily death is considered final in the sense if I were to die today, that would be the end of TheMadFool and no...
We crossed that bridge. We're on the same page although it's still debatable whether ideas are thoughts or not. They (ideas) survive death. That's the...
I see a very interesting argument emerging from the debate between 3017amen and 180 Proof. Foghorn beat me to it, all I can offer is my own two cents....
So, ideas are physical AND ideas can survive death? I agree to one conjunct but not the other. Which one you already know and I'm curious to know how ...
Last I checked, it had something to do with a blight. The Malthusian specter seems to, well, take such contingencies, in its stride so to speak i.e. t...
I did consider that angle. Maybe we're missing something very important. Suppose we do manage to discover the mathematical formula for consciousness b...
The short answer (to your questions): I don't know. The long answer: I'm working with the hypothesis that consciousness is some kind of pattern, to ta...
One word: Frenemy Our dear ol' momma earth has h. sapiens as a frenemy. It's humans who've opened up Pandora's box from which all sorts of planet-kill...
What can I say that hasn't already been assumed in IIT? My last liaison with math was in high school. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that consciousnes...
What would that look like? Nuances as in...? Let's do some back of the envelope calculations. 1. 100% of the mass of food gets converted to mass of th...
It's a tightrope walk. On one side is obsequiousness (low self-esteem) and on the other side is hubris (high self-esteem). Both ain't good for you but...
A work in progress. Sorry if it messes up the discourse. Agreed but you might want to take a closer look at the appropriateness of the word "arbitrary...
My thoughts exactly. Just the other day, I was wondering if nonphysicalists would be ready to accept souls/minds as pure energy or some kind of mathem...
You obviously haven't been introduced to Deus Deceptor (Descartes), Simulation Hypothesis (Nick Bostrom), and Brain In A Vat (Gilbert Harman), Solipsi...
My take on the materialism-idealism debate crystallized into a high-definition image about a month or so ago. A bit of an exaggeration there but who's...
Sorry to hear that! I'm sure the pay-offs will make up for the time lost consumed. I didn't imply that though it looks like I said it. Sorry for the c...
The word "author" seems to have broadened its scope over the last 5 centueries - it used to refer to writers but now its meaning is closer to creator ...
:up: I like that attitude. Life is so much simpler that way! The question is, is it the truth? That said, I don't like the fact that science was chose...
Yes, we can agree on something at least! That's an attitude I don't recommend - it would be like mistaking a stop in your journey with your destinatio...
Hate to break it to you but no, you wouldn't! Sorry! Are you saying a chimpanzee society is equivalent to human society in re morality? Let's set asid...
I've already conceded to the point that virtue ethics is normative ethics and that the Euthyphro dilemma is metaethical one but you're ignoring the ob...
You would know, right? That's an explanation but I'm sure you wouldn't go so far as to say that's the explanation, no? Morality, if you haven't alread...
Well said! Nevertheless, there are people, like me for example, who can't help but judge matters based on our own weltanschaunngs. I feel that's what ...
You know your history well! Kudos to you. As for me, my memory ain't what it used to be. Just out of curiosoty, do you like the modernism-postmodernis...
Normative ethics question: Is there good/bad in virtue ethics? Answer: Of course there is, that's why it's an ethical theory i.e. it's supposed to gui...
Agreed but it must have a metaethics of its own i.e. it should have some criteria for distinguishing good from bad. In short, that we have virtue ethi...
Short & sweet! Just what the doctor ordered (for me). :up: Thanks So, the modern period describes the first step taken by humanity in the domain of sc...
Sorry to break it to you but you saying it doesn't make it wrong. You began by telling me the Euthyphro dilemma is metaethics and virture ethics is no...
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