If you want to split hairs, yes, but those who thought up the concept of intersubjectivity seem to have done so with personhood as a waypoint that's a...
Survival of the luckiest --> Survival of the brainiest. It may be a hard pill to swallow for some, but it's equally hard to deny that brainier life-fo...
Initially, I was quite worried about what your statement meant because it seems to be saying that science is about how things are and religion is abou...
Imagine a set, {dog, 9, $, F}. If I remove 9, I have removed something but what I'm left with is {dog, $, F} which is still something and definitely n...
I haven't read Phaedo and it doesn't appeal to me as much as it should probably but one of Plato's arguments, The Affinity Argument for the immortalit...
There is reflection symmetry between a thing and its opposite. Suppose you reflect the point (+x, +y) across the y-axis. What happens? The new point, ...
What confuses me to no end is the word combination, inter and subjectivity. I immediately think of oxymorons like bitter-sweet and the movie True Lies...
Symmetry vs Asymmetry = Symmetry (a thing and its opposite) Name one that's better than yin-yang. Even science seems to be about symmetry, look at ele...
And they are...? You're correct of course but what is asymmetry without symmetry? This what I've been trying to convey - for every thing that is, ther...
But it is, no? Look around you, what do you see? Asymmetry and symmetry trying to get one up on each other, sometimes succeeding, other times failing,...
Indeed, it's quite accurate to describe reality as also including a duel between beauty and ugliness and that, it would seem, weakens and even perhaps...
If I may say so, some Buddhists (Tibetans mostly I suppose) would, at some point, connect the dots and come to the realization that transhumanists are...
Another angle you might feel is worth exploring: St. Jude Children's Hospital named after St. Jude The Impossible . Your link Martinez led me to St. J...
From a certain angle that's downright untrue. Aesthetics, whatever else it might be, in some circles is understood as symmetry and if we map that onto...
It could very well be that I've got the wrong end of the stick but I can't help it, it becomes harder to believe I'm wrong, if language itself is such...
:smile: Sorry to tick you off but I genuinely believe that everything can be numericized. You've kindly offered some possible areas of reality that ar...
I'll take a stab at it if you don't mind. 1. My happiness is based on the value of life. Everything that makes me happy and everything that makes me s...
Not necessarily, we continue to do what we think is the right thing to do. Our values are ours and we use them to make sense of our lives and guide ou...
Good one! However, value is amenable to and is, in my humble opinion, more truthfully described numerically. Google definition of "value": the numeric...
That would've resonated with the me of 2 or 3 years ago but I believe Einstein, despite his formidable intellect, goofed up on that score. A thing, an...
You mean the god angle? Your Q problem is a perfect fit for the Epicurean riddle with an extra feauture - challenging god's omniscience too. I think w...
Might if I offer by way of an explanation my views on why, and I quote, "...'what truly is' is 'what can be measured'..."? Firstly, people tend to mak...
The time it took me to write this post = 2 minutes, limit but doesn't occupy space The number of points on a line = Infinity, limitless but occupies s...
Quite naturally, no? Firstly, it's the method used in your example and secondly, the only method which makes proving a negative easier than proving th...
First of all, thank you for that mathematical example of proof of a negative claim being easier than proving a positive claim. It was an eye-opener fo...
:rofl: However, jokes aside, this particular brand of thinking has been offered for public consumption at a global scale by Buddhism, especially the p...
I'm not as well-informed as I'd like to be or as needed to comment on your quaint hypothesis but a response to Daniel Dennet's book "Consciousness exp...
I've said this before and it's getting rather tedious to repeat myself but, hey, if it matters, why not? I'm going to take a Darwinian stance on this....
Therein lies the rub. It's the quintessential dilemma that racks the mind of all theists - the choices are between there being no god or there being n...
Thanks for dropping that hint! Very perceptive. Q = god x = our all-time-favorite state to be in viz. happiness 1. Q know about x 2. Q wants x to happ...
Looks like you're right! The body feeds on food, the mind feeds on ideas. Funny, never really thought about it that way. What if ideas are to the mind...
You blew my mind! How could I ask someone to explain that which that someone asserts is inexplicable? The question is nonsense. It's like asking what'...
Sounds like one helluva party! Who in his right mind can say "no" to that! A couple of points... 1. This may sound crazy but I'll say it anyway. The s...
:ok: Thanks a megaton. My question is why did Moore think good is a simple idea? Does he provide some reasons? What grounded his insight that good can...
:lol: Something to laugh about for me. Evolution is a dynamic process though and will, at some point, explain why you find this ridiculous as of this ...
I read the link you were so kind to provide re: naturalistic fallacy and Moore's (I hope I got that right) concept of naturalistic fallacy doesn't see...
Indeed, you're right! There are occasions in which if a reductio ad absurdum is feasible, it's easier to prove a negative statement than a positive on...
Kindly restrict your comments to an Aristotelian format, provided below for you: 1. All As are Bs 2. No As are Bs 3. Some As are Bs 4. Some As are not...
Right! Remember the last discussion we had on how "fashionable" it was to treat buddhism as "scientific"; add to that the buddha's unwillingness to ge...
From a buddhist perspective, something you're the forum expert on, life is suffering but I won't go so far as to endorse that, preferring to swap "suf...
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