Remember, The flash hare was outclassed by the plodding tortoise. In the end, the tortoise made more significant progress. What???? From Scientific Am...
Even if this was proved, irrefutably true, such a finding would not provide any evidence of an underlying intent or teleology. At times imo, you tend ...
@"Vera Mont" @"Athena" I recently became a member of a UK group called 'Compass,' who describe themselves as politically progressive and seek common g...
This is merely your speculative opinion. Divine hiddenness is stronger evidence imo, that a god with intent/prime mover/first cause creator, has no an...
Life exists! Entropy exists! Matter/energy can assemble into human life. Death will cause that life to disassemble and the individual consciousness/id...
Exactly what in these 4 sentences, provides evidence for a god with intent? I see no significant or compelling evidence at all. What role does entropy...
Not exclusively, but capitalism plays a major role in creating a minority of 'haves' and a majority of 'have nots.' A massive, global, power and influ...
You paint a disappointing but 'fair enough' landscape sir! :lol: The brilliant Bob Ross' actual son Steve has taken over from his father: https://th.b...
Aw! How disappointing! I take it you are not Bob Ross Jr either, the unknown son of the now deceased famous landscape painter, pictured in my previous...
I watched the following last night: https://youtu.be/Vd9TqDgDtvA Forrest Valkai, near the end of this phone-in show, talks about Craig Venter's work. ...
:smile: I loved your dance with logic, expressed in all it's textual glory. Each twist and turn of the ballet, caused yet another encounter with your ...
Well, your quote above is mostly correct but I did not claim 'true randomness,' exists. To be as clear as I can be, I personally assign a credibility ...
Sure, blind alleys and paths that lead to destruction, have been and probably always will be, wandered down due to ignorance and fear and will continu...
Not in any way that lets, determinism move to the front. Determinism is as empirically limited as randomness. Well there is connection yes, in that th...
Well the Venus project certainly wont work on Venus anytime soon. Just toooooooo molten! Maybe Venus used to be full of life ......... and then the ea...
UBI helps reduce money/currency to nothing more than a means of exchange. It would remove its power to create a majority underclass of poor people and...
How do you asses such decisions of your brain (as your eyes don't make decisions)? Choose a film title! Choose another film title! Why did your brain ...
If I understand your example above, You are saying that the people chosen to participate in the test you describe, were chosen 'at random,' but you ar...
A resource based economy is one approach. The Gosplan as employed in the early days of the USSR was another far better system than capitalism but unfo...
Thank you for your detailed response to my post. You offer a balanced treatment of the issues involved and of the questions I posed. Plenty of food fo...
When it comes to the issue of whether the universe, at its most foundational level of dynamism, ( the fundamental process(es) that forms it's existenc...
Anything I typed here in response to the linked article, would probably be a repeat of elements of my previous post above. I fully accept all the warn...
I have watched just about everything with Carl Sagan in it, available on-line, more than once. Some, I have watched many times. I have watched the vid...
For some reason, I have only been messaged regarding your last post on this thread. I was unaware of your previous 2. I know @"Jamal" 'sunk' this thre...
I hope that posting on TPF gives you at least a small way to vent Athena. If I had the power, I would make decent quality housing and the basic means ...
Brain storming/imagineering/musing/rumination! which is unrestricted by any notion of 'can't go there because.....' Such, can cause thoughts in scient...
You may already be familiar with the content of the two videos below, filmed in Vancouver Canada and Kensington Philadelphia, only a few days ago! We ...
Thank you for your detailed and interesting response and for your kind words in the first sentence of it. On your proposal that determinism exists as ...
Again, it makes more sense to me, to simply state that Chemistry is not Physics and metaphysics is just an unnecessary label for that which is not phy...
Time moves on regardless. You DO have the ability to train your brain to rethink your choice to live life as a curse. You will miss a lot of cool stuf...
Terms like 'transcending' and 'beyond,' must imo, ultimately regress towards / and land at, the notion of 'transcending' spacetime or the cosmos. Same...
'Meta' for me is far too broad, to be of much use, when added to a word like physics. To me, 'physics' and 'not physics' is far better. Meta is a pref...
@"Count Timothy von Icarus" @"ucarr" When reading both of your responses to my posts, counter points were forming in my mind. I was building my argume...
Thank you for the detail you provided and your book recommendation. It seems to me that philosophy, like most other fields, including my own of Comput...
I will attempt a response to your recent post on this thread tomorrow Count Icarus as it's Friday, it's 4:30pm here and It's beer and good cheer time!...
Well perhaps I did not make my point clearly with the wording I chose. I was trying to ask you why you are only sure that there is 'overwhelming evide...
But the examples you mention above, corporations, languages(at least those used by humans and human made machines), people groups (I am not sure what ...
I typed "is materialism considered an extreme metaphysical position?" into google and got: Materialism is not considered an extreme metaphysical posit...
Naturalism and materialism are very similar imo. I note the difference, as proposed by such as: 'Naturalism and materialism are two philosophical conc...
Why do you think that is the case? It seems to me that the only question about the afterlife, you are convinced by 'overwhelming evidence,' that you c...
I find all teleological assignments to lifeforms implausible. A wolf did not get sharp teeth because it needed them. The sharp teeth evolved not becau...
A bridge too far! Have you mused in any way regarding the form, structure, place, physics, biology, chemistry etc of this afterlife? Do you propose fo...
Yep, I think the human race needs a new 'role model' of what we might consider a better civilisation to aspire to. A better way of living as a human c...
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