Agent Smith

Then why claim one thing or another. If something is complicated, it usually means one can't make anything out of it. Your statements, confident and s...

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A kind of mass hallucination. Mass hallucination; more realistically, mass delusion. Solopsism? Deus deceptor (Descartes) & Brain-in-a-vat (Harman).

Arigato gozaimasu. Q & ~Q is, not atemporal, rather it's temporal. There has to be time i.e. time has to be real (contradiction: true and false in the...

If I understand you correctly, the form of a subject defines the qualities that determine performance in that subject e.g. mathematics is basically pa...

I think there's some merit to idealism if we only compare it to dreams. The dream world is existentially dependent on an observer doing the dreaming; ...

I'm just fascinated by how a dream (world) requires a dreamer (observer). Idealism is very close to making that claim about the real world, yes? What ...

Thanks. With all the variety in the posts, I lost track of what it was that I wanted. Yep, it's logic and its temporal aspects that interest me. A few...

You seem to know what the ego is. Challenge: Define it i.e. what predicates apply to it?

It's just that idealism bears a close resemblance to dreaming.

Worse than that? Hmmm.

Why would you say that idealism understood as reality requires an observer is anthropomorphism? Are you saying consciousness is exclusively human? Som...

If idealism is true, and the universe is simply a series of thoughts in an as of yet unknown mind, is science still objective?

The test of universalization (CI) follows, quite obviously and hence slips under our radar, from the simple fact that morality/ethics is all about cod...

A certain activity comes with a checklist that defines the performance of someone/something that's executing that actvity. Broad categories (I prefer ...

Good people make sacrifices, big and small; deserving then is not something that's high on their priority (the good deserve, but they decline accolade...

Does qualia meet the conditions for knowledge? If it doesn't then it can't be an answer to a question; what is philosophy without questions? What is i...

Close enough!

Since our friend Nick has posited the simulation hypothesis that, inter alia, the universe, earth, us could be a (mere) simulation, I believe a philos...

Omnipotent, Omniscient, Omnibenevolent God.

Is idealism the claim that reality is a dream?

My replies to DA671 apply to you. There's no point in repeating myself. Happiness is either an illusion or, no matter what, is still dukkha (unsatisfa...

:grin: G'nite!

What's so vague about the US of A? My example of a relative superpower (USA) is mappable onto a relative OOO God, yes?

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Air and gravity have been identified - we can weigh air, we can feel gravity. The ego, on the other hand, neither can be weighed, nor felt. Truth is t...

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It's not babble unless some reputable thinkers are also doing it. I recall reading a Wikipedia article that says the same thing. It's essentially Zeno...

:up: False n-lemma

The ineffable i.e. nonpropositional experiences of mysticism Consciousness, the alleged pure subjective aspect of it, is nonpropositional; so said Wit...

I think you just don't want to admit the fact that a relatively OOO God is possible. It's ok, there are topics I'm sensitive about too.

What's vague about it? We even have a real-life example: The USA is God on earth, relatively speaking, no? She can do almost anything to anyone if she...

Yep, low-income does imply screwed! The screwing doesn't stop at you and your premature demise though; it continues in your children, their children, ...

I did posit a reasonable alternative to the absolutely OOO God of philosophy viz. a relatively OOO God, a God-like being who is not omni anything but ...

One method of preventing crime is to increase police presence (the threat of capture deters).

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When something pops into my head, I look for a relevant thread, when I find one, I post. No point to duplicating threads imho. Maybe we have similar i...

That'll spell doom for Wikipedia, if the fate of the old philosophy forum is anything to go by.

Ok. I thought you'd say that. How about a "God" that's relatively OOO? If that's still not good enough I invite you to describe/define a possible God ...

Reality (dream) \rightarrow Observer (dreamer)

The OOO God!

The Holy Ghost = Hard-luck Scheele (moniker, kind courtesy of Isaac Asimov)

Well we know what the father of information theory, Claude Shannon, would've been doing if not establishing a new discipline (information theory) at B...

How much does a magazine pay for a(n) (original) joke? I'll be expecting a deposit from you into my nonexistent bank account!

:ok: Good luck!

Let our children and children's children be the judge. I secretly wish I'm wrong, but the givens are such that any such optimism is ridiculous! By the...

My conclusion wrong? I asked for criticisms on one single issue that I'm in the dark about: 1. Does a "normal" proof P for a proposition q imply the e...

If you can't identify your ego, does it even exist. Given a description of a man, if no real individual matches it, is the man described real?

A child dying of starvation, an infant succumbing to a painful infection, a person being (slowly) tortured to death, a person who's unemployed and hom...