Agent Smith

The realm of philosophers, poets, mystics as opposed to the world of biochemists, physiologists, neuroscientists.

Magnifique!

Science has succeeded in fulfilling our material wants, and provides intellectual stimulation of the kind some brains can't live without, but it does ...

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There's nothing wrong with the hypotheses. RogueAI is asking an interesting question. What are the chances that aliens have visited us given they will...

:cool: That's what I was getting at, but medicine, including neurosurgery, doesn't really require that much math. Peter Parker was a high schoolie but...

Why are the hypotheses nonsense?

Why? E = aliens exist V = aliens will visit us in the next 10 years C = aliens have visited earth P(C/(E \land V)) = \frac{P(E \land ~ V) \land P(C)}{...

Why?

Therein lies the rub.

:chin: Then we have to factor that into our calculations: What is the probability that aliens have contacted us in the past given that aliens exist & ...

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:up: Nice! That's a reshash of Descartes' cogito etgo sum.

Double whammy!

Or rather, @"180 Proof", @"Tobias", @"god must be atheist" Contextualize the following statement made by me within solipsism.

Peter Parker says the above line while inside Dr. Strange's illusion - it so happens that Strange's magic, it's mathematical (e.g. transformation, pro...

@"180 Proof"@"Tobias" Contextualize the following statement made by me within solipsism.

Very helpful comment. Bookmarked it (anosognosia) for future reference. The 3 marks of existence (re Buddhism) 1. Anicca (impermanence) 2. Anatta (no ...

I win on a technicality though 180 Proof - altering the contents of a universe at will and in any way one fancies is to have an effect on the entire u...

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All I know is this: Where i = \sqrt{-1} and all of the following takes place in the complex plane 1 Start with 1 2. 1 × i = i (90 degree anticlockwise...

I think I'm an illusion. Am I mad?

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Would the thought everything exists except me qualify as a delusion?

:up: You jest of course.

Principle of plenitude 1. Static = Possibilitism 2. Dynamic = Potentialism Exotemporabilism is a regular feature in religion.

Is it's possible that Mark wasn't home that day a good justification for I doubt if Mark killed Susan? It's possible that what we consider to be reali...

Dr. Strange, it turns out, is as powerful as Thanos with all infinity stones in the gauntlet - both can destroy entire universes through their actions...

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RogueAI is quite specific about his question.

Existence is infinite but astathm?ta. So ... ?

If I were an 8 year old and someone told me we are math, I'd think we're either a number (arithmetic) or a shape (geometry). Of course these two field...

Oh come on!

:rofl: Atheism is, I would have to agree, (cosmic) solipsism. A question that might be of interest to you: What would be the mental & physical environ...

Temporal logic?

:up: It's consistent to believe I'm not a man while it's in fact the case that I am a man or in more general terms it is consistent to believe x while...

I'm sorry but I don't see any absurdity. P(E/H) = \frac{P(E) \times P(H/E)}{P(H)} Each one of these probabilities (use the variable p) can be such tha...

Because, according to how the multiverse works, what happens in one universe affects other universes.

So memory skepticism is all there's to Wittgenstein's PLA? I though he'd seen other issues, one of which I presumed, not wrongly it turns out, was tha...

I'm sorry to know we don't have a linguist in the forum.

Worst-case scenario: A philosophy is both bad and useless i.e. baduseless! :grin:

There are as many ancient ones as there are parallel universes, just as there are as many Dr. Stranges as there are yada yada yada. That's the whole p...

Addendum The OP is directed at the subargument of Wittgenstein's PLA (private language argument) where he goes on to say definitions are impossible fo...

In my estimate, assisted suicide is connected to the legalization of drugs. One big reason why drugs are so bad is that they must be consumed on the s...

Bartricks is bang on target. God created heaven (that makes sense), but then earth with widespread evil, I think earth just fell out of heaven or rose...

I believe Bartricks when he says "I'm a philosopher". I believe you Bartricks, I believe you! :smile:

A good question by all standards. If I say "I'm a soldier" or "I'm Arnold Schwarzenegger" then that involves some amount of, let's just say, duty and ...

I understand. Good day.