He comes off as a person of great erudition. It's great to have him in the forum. I hope to keep learning from him...and others too. I've always maint...
Lucky you! Someone at least knows how to have fun around here! At certain angles, your reflection falls outside your field of vision. The same may app...
I'm talking about moral injunctions and not about how adhering to/violating them reflects on one's character. Remember, which comes first - moral code...
This is getting really interesting. Your words, in my humble opinion, get to the heart of the issue in the blink of an eye as it were. Why should mora...
I found something interesting on the Wikipedia page on Socrates, the father of Western philosophy. See vide infra, :rofl: :clap: No One Scroll down to...
If you ask me, we need to look at scientifically-confirmed physical limits. Take, for example, the speed of light. It is finite of course at 186,000 m...
I'm sorry you feel that way. Give me another shot at this, if it's all the same to you. First, the link between purpose (teleology) and the non-random...
These are probably descriptive accounts of evolution but let's get down to the brass tacks, shall we? 1. You, yourself are living proof of teleology b...
No mistakes at all. You're ignoring my argument for reasons that I can't fathom. If you disagree, here's a challenge for you: name one non-random proc...
Clearly, you've missed the point. Perhaps an analogy is in order. Imagine the situation where we have two distinct things AB and BC, where A, B, and C...
While I hesitate to say that's correct, I'm fairly confident that's not wrong. Consider for the moment a normal person's behavior. Does a person not h...
Simple. Imagine you meet an alien from another planet. This alien's behavior isn't random i.e. given a set of possibilities, some are preferred over o...
If evolution isn't inherently random, we must conclude that evolution is teleological. Pray tell, what is the ultimate goal of evolution? Now, don't r...
Indeed, time is shared - between people that is - and that immediately complicates the packing problem vis-à-vis time; multiple activities, each with ...
This gets more and more interesting but it's likely that I speak from ignorance rather than any real knowledge. The best way to express my concern her...
Right! :up: I sometimes forget the 4th dimension (time) - things change, the new, allegedly better, replace the old, reportedly inferior. Perhaps this...
Yes, My description of thoughts was metaphorical but it isn't completely wrong to look at it that way. Nevertheless, it probably isn't a definition a ...
It all boils down to Packing problems The aim is to "pack" as many useful/productive activities into a given time slot, keeping time wastage at a mini...
I'm fairly certain that Manson & his "family" were put through psychological tests of IQ, personality, schizphrenia, and the like. Given the court's v...
A discussion in another thread with 180 Proof revolved around mind and intelligence. 180 Proof said something to the effect that evolution is intellig...
We, in a sense, hold an image, understood in the broadest sense possible, of the entire universe, including ourselves and this image is made up of eve...
Thanks for alerting me to that. Completely missed it. So, yes, we have mindless AI, at least rudimentary versions of it and let's not forget the chess...
:rofl: The best Taoist is no Taoist!? :chin: Jokes aside, 1. Best goal: Don't cause problems. 2. Better goal: Solve problems 3. Good goal: Find proble...
I don't know how tests/exams are conducted these days - the last one I took was at least a decade ago, excepting a COVID antigen test a few months ago...
Thoughts are, to my reckoning, reflections of reality on what is essentially an analog of a narcissist's favorite object, a mirror. The reflections ei...
Principle of charity among other things I suppose. Put God and Abraham in the best light possible. Take a long, hard look at Abraham's story. The obvi...
The challenge for solpisism is this: granted that everything except one's own existence is doubtful but the catch is we simply can't distinguish minds...
@"Wayfarer" Anatt? Buddhism has this concept of annat?, link above, in English, no-self. Taking this into account, solipsism which claims the self to ...
How unfortunate for it appears that it needs to be interpreted correctly for very important moral lessons in it to come through. First things first, w...
In my humble opinion, the above two statements can go towards formulating a good argument for why there's something rather than nothing? 1. Nothing co...
Oh! I thought God and mind were no-go zones for physicists. How come they don't come up with regard to the EPR paradox vis-à-vis Bell inequality? On t...
Great question. An exposé of an underlying inconsistency - at times, you're deemed capable of saying, "no" to external influences and at other times y...
Maybe our creator is a die-hard fan of detective novels who wants us to figure it all out on our own. He must've left clues all over the place, not ju...
Nature As you can see, there's no recognizable pattern in mutations that are either beneficial/harmful to an organism in the sense beneficial mutation...
Nothing that isn't obvious. "Love" in French means zero I believe. To be fair though, if I were to look at it with rose-tinted glasses, I'd say love i...
If consciousness is a function of complexity then, yes, it could be a phenomenon that arises from the myriad ways complex structures/systems can be pe...
A government, as far as I can tell, is supposed to run the country; a country is nothing without its people, from infants to senior citizens; people h...
Love is, as I once said, an illusion created by the mind to make it itself look bigger than it actually is but you can't blame the mind for doing that...
Educate me! What is randomness to you? For me randomness is a state of a system consisting of a set of possibilities in which each is as likely as any...
All that I can say is that I must, sadly, disagree with you. Compare Trumps statements to those of the "witnesses" of Christ's resurrection, the forme...
I'll agree to that although non-empirical claims too can be extraordinary e.g. "I don't exist", pace Descartes. No, not begging the question. Take a l...
References? Somehow I don't believe you. Is random mutation not a good way to handle extremely variable environments if the purpose is to perpetuate l...
Indeed there's a possibility that Tertullian, Aristotle was quoted out of context but the statements that he makes, "credo quia absurdum" and "certum ...
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