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That's the only reasonable defense you have, but do note here that I don't concede the reality/actuality of happiness while the very fact that you bri...
January 14, 2022 at 20:16
Animals and, for that matter, even plants play a crucial role in culture (and religion). The Occident. Animals: Wisdom (owl), Pride (peacock), Courage...
January 14, 2022 at 19:37
The philosophy of programming 1. The philosophy of language. Exists! 2. The philosophy of logic. Also exists!
January 14, 2022 at 19:22
If an infinite regress of prior causes leads to a contradiction, then there has to be a first cause. What about causa sui? The PSR remains intact.
January 14, 2022 at 19:17
Business as usual, eh?
January 14, 2022 at 18:57
I'm sure everyone here knows the value of knowledge, a teacher, Wikipedia is both. However, ignoring the cost of an internet connection, the cost of W...
January 14, 2022 at 18:57
One or two axioms/premises to kick things off. Everything else follows, logically that is. It's quite odd actually: we write the axioms on top but the...
January 14, 2022 at 18:53
Temet Nosce
January 14, 2022 at 18:49
Fermi Paradox (Are we alone?)
January 14, 2022 at 18:48
Go drinking with your buddies.
January 14, 2022 at 17:01
Hand sanitizer/Hand rub forms part of the safety protocol against Covid (and other pathogens). Hand sanitizers contain our favorite, legal-for-millenn...
January 14, 2022 at 15:14
I've noticed that there are two allegations made against Kant's CI by Kolakowski: 1. It is circular 2. It is consistent to hold that a person (x) can ...
January 14, 2022 at 14:47
I'm sorry we couldn't come to an agreement on the matter.
January 14, 2022 at 14:41
:broken:
January 14, 2022 at 12:31
I'll give you an idea of why happiness is unreal. Happiness can be an illusion, but suffering cannot! You can seem to be happy but you cannot seem to ...
January 14, 2022 at 12:27
As I said, there's no happiness! Too, guilty pleasure. There's no such thing as guilty sorrow. Don't try to win the argument; try to comprehend and......
January 14, 2022 at 12:19
:smile: Yes, you're right! Symmetry is an illusion. Your thesis and my antithesis (to your thesis) is not all like a reflection in a mirror: (laterall...
January 14, 2022 at 12:14
You haven't really made your position clear, bit if I were to guess, you're endorsing natalism. There are times when it's fun, entertaining, and "cert...
January 14, 2022 at 12:10
Is God possible?
January 14, 2022 at 11:17
The lateral inversion in (vanity) mirrors accounts for the change in valence/sign: good reflected becomes bad, positive becomes negative, left becomes...
January 14, 2022 at 11:04
The Holy Ghost is a ghostly figure in The Holy Trinity! You have to make an effort to see it. In case you missed it: The Holy Ghost!
January 14, 2022 at 10:48
Perhaps we don't have the same ideas about what we mean by "mind", "contains", and "brain", emphasis on the second word. In other words, we disagree o...
January 14, 2022 at 10:42
That explains why there are few discussions/threads on the Holy Ghost! The Holy Ghost is a minor figure in the Sancta Trinitas.
January 14, 2022 at 10:36
Masochists, last I checked, are people who are, well, mixed up about pain & pleasure. To clarify, what is normally perceived as pain is pleasure to a ...
January 14, 2022 at 10:31
That's right! Going by what Anthony Kenny (philosopher) has to say, Aristotle was trying to, in a sense, make everyone happy - he wanted to endorse He...
January 14, 2022 at 10:25
We could, salva veritate, substitute thinking for philosophy and what we then have is the following: Religion \rightarrow Thinking (Philosophy) \right...
January 14, 2022 at 09:12
Next time, you find me funny, I'll have to charge you for it!
January 14, 2022 at 07:41
The female form is known for its (aesthetic) curves; curves are redundancies for a straight line suffices to traverse the distance between two points....
January 14, 2022 at 07:31
What's art without beauty? What's beauty without women?
January 14, 2022 at 07:20
It appears that Kavka's Toxin Puzzle is, inter alia, about the existence of a checkpoint betweeen intention and action pertaining to intention. I can ...
January 14, 2022 at 07:17
Fight to the finish/Death match/Blood sport. Humans fighting humans (Roman gladiators) \rightarrow Animal fighting (cockfights) \rightarrow Robot comb...
January 14, 2022 at 06:57
Art, deface \rightarrow Acid Attack/Vitriolage https://youtu.be/5CUDV3ybb60
January 14, 2022 at 06:46
:broken:
January 14, 2022 at 06:40
Imperforate Anus. :lol:
January 14, 2022 at 06:38
The Paradox of The Hard Problem of Consciousness 1. If consciousness is purely subjective, the word "consciousness" becomes meaningless as a referent ...
January 14, 2022 at 06:08
Subjective aspects of consciousness, you say? Not to worry, logic (our 3rd eye) comes to the rescue - we can deduce what a person is going through (vi...
January 14, 2022 at 05:55
:up:
January 14, 2022 at 05:50
Doesn't the human body resemble a laptop, any other man-made device for that matter. We don't know how it works and yet we can use it fairly well. Kno...
January 14, 2022 at 05:33
It won't take you too long or too much to get your hands on an online resource that discusses the inconsistency of (an) exception(s) with respect to a...
January 14, 2022 at 04:52
Change is a property of space and objects; however, it isn't clear whether this is true of all objects and, furthermore, what's the scope of the word ...
January 13, 2022 at 15:28
Ego-death! From a cursory reading of the Wikipedia entry, is simply the loss of self-identity; happens all the time, doesn't it? In fact ego-life (gai...
January 13, 2022 at 12:01
What's a mirror image (to you)?
January 13, 2022 at 11:48
Good day! I hope we can have a more fruitful discussion another time.
January 13, 2022 at 07:12
You're hung up on language is all I can say. Good day. I learned a lot from our little chat. Thanks.
January 13, 2022 at 07:07
Not all will agree I'm afraid.
January 13, 2022 at 06:54
I regret to inform you that I don't see you as an authority on sense and nonsense. Do pardon me. What's the difficulty in accepting mind as an activit...
January 13, 2022 at 06:53
I merely made explicit something that's true for everyone, including yourself unless there's someone who's omniscient. Are you omniscient? I hardly th...
January 13, 2022 at 06:04
I deeply regret ever having brought language into the discussion. Anyway... Look at the following nouns: 1. Horse 2. Brain (not mind) Look now at the ...
January 13, 2022 at 06:02
Kant's Categorical Imperative (CI), if adopted, implies that immoral deeds are contradictions (inconsistency): a certain value is affirmed and, at the...
January 13, 2022 at 05:56
That would be correct, except mind is brain activity. It (the mind) isn't an object like a mouth is; instead, like talking is to mouth, mind is to bra...
January 13, 2022 at 04:37