The external material world could be mind-created but that doesn't make it less real (think creator deity) or the external material world isn't an ill...
Assange doesn't have any support, not even from the people (Americans) whose rights he took such a great risk to protect! This is not the way to treat...
:grin: The solution to all our problems: study. This problem as exposed by Sokal2 is probably just peculiar to the subject, whatever that is in postmo...
If evolution is true, certain ways of thinking e.g. mild paranoia given how nature is red in tooth and claw will be selected for and these will amplif...
The OP seems to be suggesting that the destruction and catastrophes brought about by humans is adequate justification to let humans go extinct as and ...
I guess the matter is settled then! :up: However, in defense of the OP, each monad does offer a different point of view which could be considered as u...
Quite right! A person petitions for/demands rights! Happy the elephant or the Ganges didn't do either! However, the US constitution guarantess the rig...
Great question! First, why are people attracted to religion and second, why Christianity? The answers to these questions may be found in a book on psy...
It's intriguing that the laws of physics are not broken by evil but there seems to be at the very least what could be termed as resistance to evil che...
It's all hodge podge. I read the Wiki article on environmental personhood and certain natural features like rivers (e.g. the Ganges) and mountains hav...
Good question! These are the kindsa questions that make me wish I was a biologist. Let's go for the low hanging fruit shall we? I feel there's great s...
The chicken-and-egg problem is one that appears to be temporal in character as in before x, y but, sadly, before y, x! If time can be eliminated from ...
I was just thinking, how do we know if human emotions are genuine anyway? We don't, oui? Someone, it was you perhaps, mentioned in a thread on the Joh...
Crocodile tears? Nervous laughter? Deception vs. Authentic. What's interesting is this: people don't wanna wear their hearts on their sleeves, but tha...
How very parochial and lusterless my point of view is compared to yours. That said, in my humble opinion, courage & defiance are as impotent as hope -...
The problem as I see it is that we humans differ from other life-forms not by type (binary/present-absent) but in degrees (spectral/less-more). This m...
When I say "nothing exists" one possible meaning is "everything has ceased to exist". Nothing is a linguistic shortcut. Instead of saying "quarks are ...
Identity of Indiscernibles is a contoversial topic in philosophy; not so in computer science, Alan Turing's Turing Test proves my point. I believe LaM...
Is the OP's argument/pronouncement bases on Nietzsche's übermenschen concept? If it is, I'd say Nietzsche's "defense of slavery" rests on whether über...
Volte face: Ethics & Reason maybe connected at a deeper level. Being good and avoiding evil may not be just a reasonable stance to adopt, it could be ...
This is a stupid question! :snicker: Falls under @"180 Proof"'s category of Unknown knowns i.e. you know but you don't know that you do...know! I hope...
Did you get hurt or rather did Franz Kafka get burnt...hoping for something that never came to pass? Hope for the best but prepare for the worst is a ...
Perhaps technological correctness is not the same thing as political correctness, but my hunch is being technologically correct is related to not offe...
@"180 Proof" \uparrow :snicker: Depression, not something I'd recommend (even to my arch foes), especially the kind that makes you want the earth to s...
@"Hanover"@"Banno" An essence of a rat are those qualities without which a rat would cease to be a rat. The essence of a definition (for a word) are t...
This reminds me - A. Meinong. We say unicorns, leprechauns, fairies, etc. don't exist and, in the same breath, claim nothing is nonexistence; clearly ...
This maybe off-topic, so in advance, a thousand apologies. Mathematics & Logic seem to be reducible to algorithms of such low intelligence index that ...
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