:up: Can you explain? As the accuracy of measurement increases, do we have to switch between theories like it was done in your example with Mercury's ...
Logic! Given that we're all human, we all have the same genes, genes that determine, at the very least, our general physical structures (including the...
Right you are. Qualia, the ineffable aspect of consciousness, always at hand to remind ourselves that many questions in the philosophy of mind remain ...
What all of us do with "Yahweh"? That's public meaning, oui? In Wittgenstein's universe, that's about all the meaning a word can have; any private mea...
How much does precision determine the validity of scientific theories? If a missle is accurate within 200 m, does it follow the same laws of nature as...
The irony of it all (for me) is that Trump introduced me to the idea of fake news and he was busy denouncing real news as fake (not surprising because...
Indeed, to understand randomness at all scales, one has to go its source, the level where it's most conspicuous, most apparent, most obvious - particl...
Unless the dino-exterminator asteroid was a planned event. We could find out, you know. What did the dinsoaurs do for the 200 millions years they flou...
Rasmussen's paradox in a nutshell. 1. Everything that exists must have an explanation based on something else. 2. The totality of reality has no expla...
Sophistry = No substance + rhetoric (Marilyn Monroe dead) Philosophy = Substance + rhetoric (Marilyn Monroe alive) ? Sophists offer us beautiful dead ...
What I wanted to say but didn't now becomes relevant. A person has a religious experience and tells himself he had a one-to-one with God. The religiou...
Formal cause: The blueprint/design Material cause: The stuff that the craftsman works with Efficient cause: The craftsman (God) Final cause: The purpo...
Great! I'm now fascinated by where you're going with this. 1. What if god is a sensation, like pain is? God's relationship with suffering is well-docu...
Are you changing your tune or is it that I misunderstood you? That was quick. Anyway, as far as I can tell this: One can't deny what one is experienci...
The fine-tuning argument is, as the name itself suggests, entirely predicated on the precision in the values of certain physical constants if the univ...
Well, yeah, Wittgenstein seems to be/is using experience (can't find a better/right term), pain to be precise, in the same ways as Descartes uses thin...
:up: Wittgenstein said (paraphrasing) "When you're in pain, you know you're in pain; you don't justify/require proof that you are in pain." The way I ...
Tough call. Desideratum: Real Pleasure Reality: Real, pleasure sold separately Pleasure/Experience machine: Unreal, pleasure maxed out. We can have bo...
Epicurus, how could I have forgotten you? Curses! :smile: God doesn't exist. Even if he exists, he can't help us or he is bad/indifferent or he's in t...
There is always a choice, yes? Pushes power button on my PC. Enters password. Sees message: Please wait... Whistles...any moment now... Mulgere hircum...
Speaking in tongues (glossolalia). Looks like you're about to shut down your brain's language center or maybe you're hyperclocking? :up: Do keep us po...
Aut consilio aut ense (Either by meeting or by sword/war). Thank god! Meeting (negotiations) is the first option. That must count for something, oui? ...
:up: God, does He exist for everybody or for only a select few (the chosen ones)? There's nothing impossible or inconsistent about that, right? Provin...
Time never Begins! Yep. Why? Refer to Zeno's paradox(es): Achilles, forget about catching up with the tortoise, couldn't even start (running )! Time (...
I see! I didn't realize we had a choice (in the matter). Only put stock in that which can be affirmed! There's something inherently sick about denial ...
0 = (+x) + (-x) Nothing = Something + The Anti-Something Nothing isn't really nothing. So, if you encounter something, don't think that's not nothing....
:up: I'm sure you know what Ietsisism/Somethingism/x-ism is, the vague intuition that there's more (to reality) than meets the eye. To me ietsism is p...
Have I understood you correctly if I say that if an object is sitting motionless it can mean two things: 1. No force is acting on the object 2. Two op...
That went over my head. Anyway... You're correct to point out that the this idea of self we have maybe an illusion, but a distinction that seems relev...
Same here! Yet...there has to be someone or something that can do this (conceive of or, as you put it, hold a contradiction). There's gotta be someone...
Is the notion of a just war tenable/defensible? It depends...do we/should we permit killing in self defense? I see now why rape (so called Korean, Chi...
There are good reasons to doubt, metaphysical reasons (necessity and possibility): appearance vs. reality. Buddha (maya), Plato (the allegory of the c...
Some things (should) explain themselves. Read below for more... I don't think a visit to the grocer is going to be complex enough to deserve that labe...
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