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:up: I completely forgot about the sixth sense - thanks for the reminder mon ami. Like dark energy - it has to be there says the mind (dark energy has...

Can't I be a species unto myself - a particular lineage and I've heard the phrase "the last of his line". I am that.

Masochists taken care of, but what about suicide? My own version of the golden rule 1. Positive formulation: Do unto others what a normal person would...

:smile: The Jewish people have been persecuted for nearly a thousand years now. They seem to take it well. One would think after being inhumanely trea...

:sad: Good poetry. :up:

You should never do that for me. I'd hate to darken anyone's world like that. Thanks for tryin' ta brighten my day, but I was quite clear on one point...

:lol: Rational reproduction, like rational medicine (it works) or like rational spending (epic fail).

Splitting hairs has its plus points. Your picture of reality has a higher resolution than mine, mon ami.

Antinatalism is a trivial solution to the problem of suffering just like, as you said many suns ago, if happiness is everything, put everybody on a mo...

You haven't heard of the uncarved block (re Daoism) then! :cool: The reason why a child believes in god (gullibility) is different from the reason why...

Some of us wish to go extinct mon ami! It comes from an understanding of reality that our parents, normal ones at least, which says a lot, shield us f...

:up: It is said, as per some research, that the mind modulates the senses - kinda gives it some finishing touches before presenting the sense data to ...

@"Andrew4Handel" May be it's a bit of both. To start we need god (theism), but to maintain we don't need god (atheism). The ladder that must be used (...

Apologies, but I did address the key points to my reckoning. Epistemology fails as a distinctive feature, because at the end of the day, one realizes,...

May be it left! :scream: Remember that unknown object captured by telescopes crashing into the moon. Still no satisfactory explanation. Secret rocket ...

:ok: All that exists is the physical, is this the materialist's thesis? Sounds very ontological. I also find epistemological this and epistemological ...

First off, noticeably using negatives. Why? Second, you're, to my reckoning, stipulatin' metaphysical conditions (obviously, ontology is metaphysics),...

By critetion for existence I mean specific conditions something (x) has to meet before one can say x exists. The popular criterion is an expanded vers...

I was simplifying my thesis by highlighting only the exemplars. Are you sure the TS hasn't taken place? One possible reason why we haven't met ET is b...

Good day.

We must distinguish entailment from effect. I conjecture that life is inherently/intrinsically immoral i.e. it's unethical to have children ... even i...

Nec caput nec pedes mon ami. Are you by any chance a modal realist? You seem to not distinguish potential existence from actual existence.

So you propose a combo (Kant + Bentham/Mill). :up:

Show me your criterion for existence. The common people's criterion is basically a more elaborate version of seeing is believing, but visual hallucina...

There is no criterion for existence and that's that!

We can't use a consequentialist argument.

Can you elaborate, I don't recall having read that particular argument you say you've made.

I see, but I thought we're arguing for antinatalism i.e. making people aware of the immorality of bringing children into this world (re your forced-to...

@"schopenhauer1" Kant's categorical imperative, does it apply to natalism? What if everybody did that (procreated)? Antinatalism is paradoxical - it v...

Lumen naturale i.e. the light of reason, used to be at odds with some religions, but no longer according to deism. Newton's flaming laser sword aka Al...

That's one of many ways to look at it. As far as I can see, it's not an issue of whether to live or die, but rather how we wanna die? Agree @"180 Proo...

So much for hedonism.

My memory betrays me mon ami! Pardon.

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Beliefs are statements that can be true/false. God exists is a belief, it's a statement. God doesn't exist is a belief, it's a statement. So, if athei...

Superb observation. It's quite clear we're cleaning up the mess created by someone else, whoever it was that claimed atheism is a lack of belief. It i...

Like @"180 Proof" says, the TS (the technological singularity) might've already taken place - we're just failing to notice it, just like some of us fa...

It's very simple why the hard problem of consciousness is hard - consciousness is unobservable, a necessity if science has to take a shot at explainin...

Argumentum ad baculum (argument from the stick) Argumentum ad carota (argument from the carrot) The Muslim conquest of Africa and central Asia and Sou...

Well, to be fair to all the hindsight experts, foresight is, I, think, orders of magnitude more difficult. That said, part of the 20/20 vision of the ...

Methinks a first principle (is there a Latin term for it?) is one the falsity of which entails a contradiction or is self-refuting. F = There are some...

Not entirely impossible - the sulci and gyri (folds) of our brains do resemble radiator fins. Arguing like children and that speaks volumes. A is at t...

Doe it not include suffering & (premature) death in reasons why life sucks?

There was also no one there to ask for consent to life. Just as there is no one there for consent to non-life. What would be a good measure of human s...

I agree this - what we have here at the moment - is for sure not paradise. You forgot to mention progress with regard to the problem of suffering - li...

Gracias, I was finding it difficult to explain pessimism in the modern world after what I wrote in my last post. Suffering is no longer a viable reaso...

Read the first paragraph of the Wikipedia page on philosophical pessimism. All in all, to ascribe a negative value to life; in vernacular, the game ai...