Thanks for your detailed explanation. Much appreciated. Did you know that the Buddhist middle path (madhyamaka deals with opposing pairs of ideas in t...
Consequentialism is the mathematization of ethics (vide Bentham's felicific calculus). It isn't a bad idea and could've made a difference; unluckily, ...
Theology is thinking for religion; Philosophy of religion is thinking of religion. The former attempts to find a good foundation for theistic doctrine...
Consciousness 1. Other-awareness: Dishbrain is conscious (it reacts to the environment, plays a simple game) 2. Self-awareness: Dishbrain is not (?) c...
I'm into mythology. Does that mean I'm an anti-philosopher (someone who prefers falsehoods over truths) in that respect? I've always wondered why this...
Well, here's what I think, for what it's worth: Evolution, from the givens, lacks a goal - it would sooner produce a brainless critter than a lifeform...
Evil is, I'm persuaded to believe from my experience, a feature and not a bug. It can get quite extreme at times - heinous atrocities, torture being t...
1. What you sow you reap. 2. What goes around comes around. 3. Action = Reaction (Newton's 3rd Law) 4. Karma 5. Reciprocity My mind's thoughts/speech/...
@"Varde" All Claims are Justifiable In short, we can justify the logical necessity of causation. All we need to do is come up with a set of axioms tha...
Metaphysics attempts to create/discover the foundations of reality. The only tool I can see in our toolbox is empirical observation and logic. Can we,...
I've dabbled in meditation, but I wasn't cut out for it. I'm scatter-brained you see, I couldn't have chosen a worst possible hobby/activity for mysel...
Helps solve the Good Book's inconsistency problem. Parts of it were God's word when he wasn't a lunatic or a liar, parts of it were when he was one or...
Consciousness is an act like urination or digestion or walking or talking, you get the idea. Are all these activities physical in the sense a stone (m...
Remember Lewis's trilemma: Either Jesus was Lunatic or Liar or Lord. That says a lot, doesn't it? Mythomania, Psychosis and Divine (mysticism included...
From a Wittgensteinian POV it seems that all we're capable of is syntactic manipulation (language + logic), semantics "drops out of consideration". Th...
:snicker: This time, Jesus is gonna get shot/electrocuted/poisoned/hung/what else? (preferred, allegedly humane forms of execution) instead of crucifi...
@"Jack Cummins" @"180 Proof" Brilliant, the both of you! 180 Proof got mathematical (0), but the two of you eventually ended up in the world of poetry...
A computer is, to my knowledge, an automated alogrithm executing device. What happens, as far as I know, is that some aspects of our thinking can be r...
Bravo! The meat and potatoes ( :snicker: ) of paradoxes is binary thinking (0/1, not both, not neither, only one). So, really my ill-considered critiq...
Perhaps, but abaci, to my reckoning, don't possess even the basic architecture to do logic-apt Boolean algebra like a calculator or a computer. In a s...
I don't know how computers handle syntax so well and score zero on semantics then! I can't quite wrap my head around that. They (computers) seem to be...
Yeah, one point of interest is syntax has, how shall I put it?, semantic functions as well. I mean grammar serves to remove semantic ambiguity that ca...
The issue you refer to (intentionality/aboutness) is what AI researchers are presently struggling with. It appears that computers, present state-of-th...
Where do I begin? First perhaps by confessing my abject ignorance on the matter. That out of the way, this is where I'm at on consciousness vis-à-vis ...
@Tom Storm Kinda like an old friend I just met! He's just out from a hospital - fell off his bike down a cliff. He related to me how, as he was tumbli...
Business transaction (in the market) Customer: I'll give you $0.00. Can I please have 0 apples? Shopkeeper: :rage: Get the f**ck outta here a**hole!! ...
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