True that the existence/nonexistence of god doesn't entail belief/disbelief. However lack of belief, what does that mean? Neither do I believe god exi...
You're forced to take a risk, but a simple way of ensuring a greater than 50% chance of winning is to buy up > 50% of the tickets. I'm sure the lotter...
That doesn't make sense (to me) and even if it does, does the atheist mean that "god doesn't exist" is not his position on god? If it is then the alte...
I merely echoed the OP's own protest against atheism as a lack of belief and not the belief that god doesn't exist. Atheists, I've observed, dodge the...
That's correct, which is to say maya (illusion) is the cause of suffering, and out goes the window the first noble truth - life (reality) is suffering...
Aristotle's aurea mediocritas is notoriously difficult to achieve and as far as I can tell, it's exactly what's needed in this case (censorship) and s...
? It is as I surmised - the cogntive singularity aka the technological singularity is beyond our event horizon i.e. we don't know what it is going to ...
Indeed, my description matches that of ignosticism. If so, atheism as a lack of belief must mean atheists don't believe in God which is just another w...
Why is intelligence the yardstick for emergence? What is emergent is never to be found in the stuff it issues forth from e.g. chemistry is not suffici...
Atheism as a lack of belief is legit if "god exists" (theism) is incoherent or meaningless, kinda like saying "$#&£!!??" The attributes don't stick (r...
It all depends on the profit made, if it is made at all. I should've put R first. So, intriguingly, there's an order in which you must perform the ope...
I guess there could be Jedi kinghts and Sith lords - beings who could connect with The Force (bio-fields) and tap its power to perform miraculous feat...
It's doubtful if the adage once bitten twice shy is true. It seems to lie at the heart of the question. Many people have admonished me, saying "you ne...
How to manage the profit (P) 1. Top up the decent salary of all employees (bonuses, B). How much is decided by the lowest wage and the bonus is a fixe...
Problem: Murphy's Law Solutions: 1. Ranging by which I mean unlike the universe which would be impossible if any of the physical constants were off th...
But then that means physicalists are ok with dualism and mathematical platonism, but they're not are they? Something doesn't add up, oui? Gracias for ...
What caught me eye is cancer - we're relatively fast evolving - from apes to humans in, what?, 2.5m years? One reason why that's possible is greater g...
We had such a painful experience with European colonization and now in movies, I see Africans & Asians as part of colonization groups sent to other pl...
:cool: Absit iniuria @"Gnomon" I like Gnomon's mind even if what it thinks is philosophically suspect. A Mercedes Benz being used to transport manure....
Does Blackstone's ratio apply to the issue? Better that a 100 guilty people go free than that 1 innocent person be unjustly punished. Better that we d...
It seems large scale crimes need to be put in perspective. For example the holocaust registered at least 6,000,000 jewish lives (requiescat in pace), ...
A physicalist ontology I define as either the physical is all that exists/is real or that the physical is more real than the nonphysical. From such a ...
A knife may kill but it can also save. There's no reason to say a knife is a weapon. I,'m a bit bewildered why physical (stones, bodies) is more real ...
What I find intriguing is how a human - using reason - would achieve what the oysters did in that tank. My best guess is it's beyond the capabilities ...
:lol: It could be the other way round. Look at what we're doing - crushing, melting, banging, breaking, twisting, and the list goes on ... inanimate o...
Universe + Ideaverse. We're explorin' the latter here aren't we? You seem to have visited many worlds from what I can gather from your writings and th...
What's the justification for a physicalist ontology? Why is it that when talking about material stuff, nobody goes "is the chair I'm sitting on real?"...
Yes, subsists is correct in Meinong's universe. Speaking for myself, I posit that are there are two universes, a) the physical universe and b) the men...
A pity. Streetlight had interesting things to say but he was a bit brusque in his conduct. Anyway, as for your comment on different kinds/levels of ex...
Hi Streetlight. I hope you are well. As for Carlo Rovelli ... I have a short story for him: Six Fools One day, six fools from a certain village set ou...
Paradoxically, this just in, morality promotes parasitism because, on the whole, giving is encouraged but taking is discouraged. The point then is for...
Indeed, moral norms have a cooperative flavor to them. Kant's second test, in addition to universalizability (the categorical imperative), is cooperat...
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