Agent Smith

My bad, I dunno what came over me! I have great respect for Roger Penrose and I'm sure his bad ideas are better than my good ones. Yet, his microtuble...

Merci for keeping track of what passed between us; I would've loved to reciprocate in the same way, but alas, my life is too chaotic to permit me this...

Poor writing, (intellectual) laziness, don't-give-a-rat's-ass attitude, and a lot more as possible explanations for the confusion apparent in the disc...

Yep, if I'm not grooming one person for greater and greater responsibilities in my company but instead swapping people with better other people, how c...

Desperate times call for desperate measures! Microtubules & consciousness! Wild would be an understatement. Clearly, we're in a dark room, blind, wear...

I'm sorry, that didn't compute!

:ok: Which means \infty is impossible, squaring with Aristotle's decision to make the distinction potential vs. actual (infinity).

The OP argues that for present to be true present, idealism hasta be true for it's not limited by the temporality of materialism. Why does the present...

Why? He wasn't a p-zombie!, Post-crucifixion, all bets are off. I recall reading someone calling Jesus a zombie! :snicker:

That possibility is moot as even in a world where p-zombies are ~?, we would be mere stones, not even p-zombies, relative to divine consciousness.

If p-zombies exist, physicalism would be false. Quite a riddle, this! God is to humans as humans are to stones! And yet...

Romance scams! Honey traps! Despite all the outwardly expressions of love, there is no love! That said, speaking for myself, I would fall in love with...

:grin: This is why scientists have a dim view of philosophy - despite its claims to be a fact-finding mission, it's largely an exchange of opinions. A...

Ok. What do you suppose is going on with how the devil (vide ArielAssante's post) on how the devil seems to be conducting what is in essence an experi...

So, a little bit of craziness and a little bit of reason. That's how we work, oui monsieur? An interesting paradigm that needs dissemination among the...

I see. :up: If fatalism is justified, what adjustments would you make to your weltanschauung? Wouldn't it be better to just lie in bed and relax all y...

Danke for the reply. In my view fatalism isn't the same as determinism. 1. Fatalism: If there's a choice A or B, both A and B lead to C. What you choo...

:chin: This challenge by the devil seems to be a test of faith! The devil is seeking proof of fides. Odd! :brow:

So, it's not that we're being debarred from testing for God's existence/nonexistence; we're only being asked not test our trust in Him. :chin: So I ca...

You can't trust in something that doesn't exist.

Not a god one would want to worship, oui monsieur? Respect? An altogether different story!

I see what you did there, Bartricks!

I'll take a shot at this: Reality (the world), what is it? Facts, the totality of facts. It feels important to distinguish facts from knowledge - we, ...

Spare me the sarcasm, please. Anyway I really don't want to get into a discussion on the problem of evil; its relevance, insofar as the OP is concerne...

The problem of evil straddles both the world of metaphysics & the world of empiricism. Evil is defined well enough to be recognized by everyone. Also ...

I included metaphysics in the OP for good reasons. Some claim metaphysics is not open to empirical testing i.e. you can't verify/falsify them via expe...

Some relevant ideas: 1. Karma (ethics), as mentioned previously deserving/undeserving is about causation, moral in this case. 2. Justice/Vengeance (Iu...

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Philosophers: Ordinary folk think too less. Ordinary folk: Philosophers think too much. We never hit the sweet spot betwixt deficiency & excess now do...

Let's not waste our time and get straight to the point, eh?

It's paradoxical that Cartesian radical doubt (imagine that!) leads to, suprise, surprise, absolute certainty. Isn't that like being the worst crimina...

Perhaps we should do the right thing and offer people the choice - natalism/antinatalism - and let the chips fall where they may. Last I checked, proc...

:rofl: To posters engaged in discussion with Bartricks, look up gennaion pseudos (noble lie) and pious fiction.

Xin (heart-mind). God(s) is(are) an emotional need (crutch/fetish as you said in your previous post). They/it falls under the rubric of desiderata (ig...

Going Socrates on (poor) Gregory. Looks as though Gregory's casting a wide net - he's not trying to catch a particular kinda fish, any fish'll do!

Apophatic theology is a legit branch in the philosophy of religion and speaks volumes in re whether god(s) are a part of the solution or part of the p...

:up: When you put it that way, it becomes crystal clear. Attempting to solve a mystery (the universe and all in it, imcluding ourselves) with another ...

Consciousness sans reason: Mirrors! Reason sans consciousness: Computers! We have to, sensu latu, put computers before mirrors and let the magic happe...

If I may be so bold as to make a suggestion, there's ample room in your EnFormAction for science by treating it as answers to how G*D (primum movens) ...

Need unpacked: 1. Logical necessity: Is there anything about this universe that requires the existence of God for an explanation? 2. Emotional necessi...

It's natural to ask questions and equally natural to look for reasonable answers. God is just one of the many manifestations of our curiosity (that ki...

...killed the cat! :scream: Socrates...the (alleged) father of Western philosophy, curious chap, was executed by hemlock. Philosophers need to watch t...

Ad infinitum = Ad nauseum :vomit: Eternal \to Cannot die (a disability rather than an ability).

:snicker: We all have our little problems!

Gracias for posting the poll findings vis-à-vis the paranormal in the US of A. Ponder this: With respect to belief (in the paranormal with emphasis on...

The smaller than/the larger than the human scale we go, the more the mind gets involved; our senses, designed as they are to operate at a specific lev...

Archived for future reference! Danke!

:fire: :clap: The scales now drop from my eyes, but I see there's more work that needs doing. Please continue.

:ok: Such an important step and the rule is left unmentioned. Odd!

Yeah! I wanna run something I've been mulling over for the past few weeks by you. It's about the yin-yang dualistic model of reality. The classical ex...