Great post Jack Cummins. As I recall having said once, there's a Sancta Trinitas of selves per person ( :wink: ) 1. Who you really are. 2. Who you thi...
Lemme get this straight. Abortion was legalized based on the right to privacy. Aren't Republicans/conservatives (the pro-life faction) staunch defende...
:chin: I wasn't aiming for perfection you know! You have a sad life, to you everything is :broken: Coming from me, that's something you should think a...
You have a point, but, from what I gather, this is part and parcel of philosophy and science. Philosophy is more deconstruction than construction if y...
A simple heuristic (kind courtesy of Taoism) based on (lateral) inversion: negate everything you think you are and you'll be closer to the truth than ...
If everything, and I mean everything, could be shown to be "that than which nothing greater can be conceived" or thereabouts, modal realism would be t...
You see a self in the mirror, but that's, intriguingly, just an illusion (anatta or perhaps it's actually an other :scream: ). Vide Daniel Dennett (co...
Is the OOO (omnibenevolent, omniscient, omnipotent) god consistent? External/Internal Inconsistencies: 1. All 3 attributes, together, are incompatible...
Alexius Meinong's (vide Meinong's Jungle) thoughts echo John Scotus Eriguena's. Mind twins separated by nearly a thousand or so years! Do such instanc...
Anything and everything seems to be, well, dual purpose, ethically that is: a bullet can both kill and save a person. You have to be imaginative/creat...
Zombies, supposedly, lack an inner life; they're unconscious as it were. Does that mean, from a Freudian & Jungian perspective (the unconscious), we'r...
Speaking for myself, all the times I've been rejected (100% of the time), there's always been a very good reason for the rejection. I don't know wheth...
The solution to the abortion issue is a simple one: Contraceptives (birth control pills, IUDs, condoms, etc.) and sex education (coitus interruptus, a...
Yep, the what it is like (to be a bat)? (qualia, 1st person point of view) "drops out of consideration as irrelevant" (Private Language Argument). How...
How true! If this world is a simulation, it would indeed be meaningless, given meaning is inseparably tied to the real. Nihilistic delusions (check ou...
@"Michael" :up: Deduction! Magnifique mon ami. Can consciousness be simulated? What's the difference between God (a creator deity) and a programmer of...
Sorry for butting in 180 Proof, but I couldn't resist - the temptation was too much to resist. You're, for certain, aware of the Duck Test. If it look...
Yeah, that makes sense, but until we've done the calculations and have some hard figures to prove/suggest that is the case, I'm afraid simulations are...
:fire: God as undefined. You mean like how Rober M. Pirsig writes a 418 page novel titled Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance on quality but nev...
Possible answers to questions like "does God exist?" 1. Yes 2. No 3. Don't know 3a. Unknown because of limitations in methodology and information 3b. ...
To Gloomy Guses like me, this is a recipe for disaster, an accident waiting to happen, a tragedy in the making. Reminds me of The Titanic. It's a huge...
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