:up: Interesting! Thinking, then, is either not reducible to a function or, if philosophers insist it is one, it's in a category if its own, it stands...
Limbo! or, as the moderators like to call it, The Lounge. Wikipedia has an entry or try Googling. The internet will do a better job of explaining it t...
:up: Does God have free will? Michael Shermer, great guy! I watched some of his talks. He gives me the impression of someone who's thought things thro...
Not really, I'm trying to explore the similarities between the abstruse and the gobbledygook. As I made clear, I'm the test subject. There are things ...
I want to retract my statement above. Think about it. Functionalism (as I understand the word) 1. Brain is to thinking as legs is to walking However, ...
a Hobbesian take on the issue. Good to know. Hobbes, a theist! Should've guessed that one right. It adds up but not in the way I thought. I guess it's...
Taking a page out of monotheism, people don't mind the concentration of power in one individual, so long as said individual is not just good but all-g...
This is the dilemma: Stop polluting OR stop developing. I want to lay the blame on someone but we're all family, I don't wanna do that! You want us al...
Perhaps relevant to the mind-body problem is ghosts. People who believe in these imaginary things report breaking into a cold sweat, hearts going thum...
I remember a question from Khan Academy that was on inequalities and the answer was the minimum number of people required for get a job done. Assuming...
The internet is simply a medium and blaming it for the fall of democracy is like pointing the accusing finger at the paper on which news is printed. T...
Alpha-gal syndrome Something to do with ticks (the Lone Star Tick to be precise). Bloodsuckers doing their bit for a good cause. :chin: The Alpha-gal ...
Empedocles would have us starve to death! That in itself is a point in favor of nonvegetarianism, no? Food (animal/vegetable) or malnutrition-starvati...
Here's a funnly little trick you can try out if you're a linguist interested in ancient languages. Take the letters of (say) ancient Sumerian and find...
I concur with the OP. The ethico-logical dilemma: Be logical OR be good. My witnesses are: 1. The random good person who everyone thinks is both mad a...
I was specifically trying to avoid that horn of the triceratops. I want to ask you something. Taking a consequentialist point of view, given that cons...
Speech is Silver, Silence is Golden.. Arabs! English versions, according to the above link: The Chinese had something to say about it too: Furthermore...
Have physicists ever tried this: One experimenter (x) observes the slits and another ( y ) observes x observing the double slit experiment? You know, ...
Magic vs. science. When humans encountered inexplicable phenomena it used to be magic but now it's just not (scientifically) understood as of yet. I d...
Religion is, if you will allow me to say so, obsessed with the weak (the poor & the sick, covers everything, no?). It's some kind of odd relationship ...
Not magic but plain Sherlock Holmesian deduction. The Ancient One knew they kind of person Dr. Strange was (haughty, abrasive, (over) confident, etc.)...
:chin: It's true that some (all) definitions of a good person include an unwillingness to either expect or accept rewards for one's good acts and just...
All I know about the double-slit experiment is that it implies God doesn't exist because if he did, since He's an all-seeing (omniscient) observer, th...
Bingo! You hit the bullseye! Assumptions/Axioms: Let's assume/pretend such and such and find out what logically should follow. Agrippa's trilemma: 1. ...
:up: There's something between determinism and randomness. Do you think the following argument makes sense? It does to me. 1. Some things don't have a...
Some time between how the sun is now and when it becomes a red giant, we should be able to call Mars home. Assuming of course we make the right moves,...
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