Agent Smith

So, you mean to say you would still have kids even when you knew they would be tortured all their lives?

The rather disheartening realization that nonexistence is better in some cases is as old as the mountains (vide infra). In other words, antinatalism c...

Saved for later! Danke!

We would never know that empirically for to observe for existence one has to be conscious. Can we deduce the answer i.e. can we formulate an a priori ...

1. If the perceived present should be the true present, idealism is true. 2. The perceived present should be the true present. Ergo, 3. Idealism is tr...

You missed the point then! Even when the die is fair (50/50 chances), given the severity of the loss (torturesome life), no one will, given the option...

Whazzat?

True, true, but I was referring to how those lower down in the pecking order tend to feed their egos by associating themselves with the upper echelons...

@Tzeentch Hi, sorry for buttin' in like this, but have a dekko at the list below - destinations (for souls) in order of preference: 1. Jannat (Paradis...

@Yohan Nice angle, the psychologist's view on \infty. Speaking for myself, I find the expression "I love you infinity" very thought-provoking and awe-...

:snicker: An ol' gem of wisdom! Who listens though, eh?

Bona fortuna! :up:

The idea is to deconstruct package deals which momma nature, for reasons I can't fathom, is very fond of - it's a good business model but becomes a ro...

:ok: If you ignore :point: :sad: then, all you have are guilty pleasures - the proverbial fly in the ointment, oui monsieur? The flags in the US & Ind...

Let's use antinatalism, it's existence, as some kind indicator/sign/marker that all is not right with the world. Just like how a sad face at a party s...

On point! It hasta make sense and (rigorous) logic is all about that - hats off to @"TonesInDeepFreeze" - making sense (of the cosmos).

Like I said, let's not think/speak for someone who could well be smarter than us. People ain't dumb, at least not as dumb as presupposed by our exchan...

I have a question on causality. Ghosts don't exist. Yet, when all alone in an empty house on a dark, stormy night we experience fear, cold sweats, pal...

:up: Danke! Nature prepared itself to do battle with silicon-based AI then! :snicker:

Positronic brains, stuff of sci-fi! Ol' Sparky, Dr. Frankenstein's monster, Luigi Galvani & amputated frog legs experiment, Cardioversion (defibrillat...

What's necessary for consciousness? Since we know of only one universe, the one we inhabit, we'd better restrict ourselves to carbon-based consciousne...

The problem as I see it is that to answer this question one has to take into account both the potential (to be human) and the actual (is human). To co...

The law of identity: A = A It feels odd that, unlike the other two laws of thought, there's an awkwardness to constructing a truth table for the law o...

P-zombies, for obvious reasons, remind me of thespians! Laughing but not actually amused, crying but not actually sad, angry but not, reasoning but no...

"Where the words come from" can be computed. Did you forget logic? Computers and hence AI are masters of deduction and also induction. The universe is...

First order of business: Help yourself. The I is not easy to pin down! It seems to be more a matter of convenience than substance i.e. it just makes l...

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:rofl: Trying (hard) to reason!

:ok: However, look at the potential for pain/unpleasantness/sorrow. If my 14 year old daughter wished to go out alone in a cougar/grizzly-infested woo...

The fallacy of equivocation, a consequence of polysemy, will wreak havoc if not for the law of identity. 1. This pen is good. Ergo, 2. This pen will g...

We can do whatever we want to our property. For instance, my watch - I can hammer it to pieces, gift it to someone, wear it, throw it into the lake, s...

Salient points: 1. To physicalists/nonphysicalists, to make your case prove p-zombies are impossible/possible (respectively). 2. The catch: P-zombies ...

It's quite clear that we lack the info necessary to come to a definitive conclusion in re natalism/antinatalism - it requires us to accurately foretel...

The potential for an awesome life has been extinguished, nipped in the bud? Antinatalism is, at the end of the day, about the potential/possibility fo...

I'll havta take your word for it.

Self-preservation is hardwired - there's little you can do about it except like in the movie where the guy manning a nuclear power station is :meh: at...

:ok: Please edify me then. How does intuition work in math? How is it related to so-called mathematical/logical rigor? Talking to you is like conversi...

You must free yourself (of mathematics).

If ~(A = A) then, mathematically, A > A. This implies A + x = A where x > 0. However, from A + x = A, x = 0. This is contradiction ! Hence, A = A. Did...

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I dunno! That's what I'm trying to find out.

Henri Poincaré!

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You're, how shall I say this?, forgetting the role of intuition in math. Vide Henri Poincaré.

You might be interested in Capgras Delusion. A = A but ~A = A.

As I see it, the so-called interaction problem for dualism hasta do with the fact that from a physicalist point of view, the brain's functions are all...

I see what ya did there Josh Alfred! Fantabulous!