universeness

Natural selection still affects humans, humans continue to evolve related to their environment, but human science will have a far more significant eff...

There is clear space between natural selection (no intent) and human selection (intent). Human selection is directly responsible for the evolutionary ...

@"TClark" You should watch this: https://youtu.be/6EnNLXxgvQ8

Yes, you summarise the moral issue quite well. But my argument regarding the moral dilemma peddled by @"Tzeentch" is that his issue of 'common moralit...

You can concentrate on that, and I will try to help stop any bailers switch to maintaining the spouting fountain. I think you have the tougher task!

Absolutely! Again, absolutely true! YES WE CAN! (Ok I am quoting Obama a little, but he was certainly not the originator of these words, it was probab...

One aspect of your posts that I find reinforcing is your exemplifications that are happening or have happened in the real world. A lot of posters don'...

I do appreciate what you are saying and I broadly agree with your advice, BUT when you are dealing with those who post in an evanhellical style then t...

We can but try! :strong:

I dont know if you have read through his recent posts on this page regarding his flavour of antinatalism. It is based on a moral dilemma, not the issu...

So, do you agree that if an intelligent species reproduced asexually then antinatalism as an option dies? So, would the morality issue you champion. D...

Oh sure, let's go Kant. I think the clue might be in his name! A normative ethical theory that the morality of an action should be based on whether th...

But the antinatalist @"Tzeentch" has just posted that he does not care about reducing human suffering so does your number 1 here apply to his/her flav...

You have simply decided to supress it, but it is still part of you, and it will revisit you at times. I have no children and imo, I am now too late in...

Based on your response, I think you agree that dilemma's such as the two I highlighted from Babylon 5, at least demonstrate that figuring complicated ...

All you do is throw another toy from your pram! around about 200 of them so far, according to the moderators. Make you antinatalist points, stop tryin...

Well said sir! From a google search: In his 2011 book, “The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined,” Harvard psychologist Steven Pinke...

The attention I am paying to 'his argument,' is simply shaking your little room. If you want to help him then make your points or concentrate on wipin...

That was just a method of exemplifying your 'logic trail,' and how that trail leads to your irrational antinatalism solution. It does not inhibit a mo...

In the timescale laid out by the cosmic calendar we are still an infant species. 10000 years of significant human cooperation and civilisation, is a f...

Here is an even tougher one from Babylon 5. Your death in certain circumstances will be the action that will improve the lives of millions, permanentl...

So, perhaps we are indeed natures/the universes best attempt so far, to be able to figure out what and why it is existent. Another reason why we can't...

Your typings remind me again of a dilemma dramatised in an episode of Babylon 5. A student 'warrior of light' (a Minbari Ranger) is having a crisis ab...

I can only place such a question into the same file as the one that holds questions such as. How close will we get to KNOWING the actual speed of ligh...

Yep its akin to the two questions we must always ask ourselves. 1. Who am I. 2. What do I want.

Perhaps even a panpsychist who believes that some humans are more 'in touch' with the 'universal mind' than others are?

For me, a prophet is just a human who is trying to dupe others that god speaks through him/her. It's an old ruse, first used to establish the divine r...

Yep, we agree on that one!

A god which is shy? and needs to communicate by proxy? Not a description of a god which inspires much respect from me. I seem to be more self-assured ...

Yes it is, as it establishes that only those who reproduce sexually as opposite genders have the CHOICE to reproduce or not and that is what antinatal...

You are just travelling through the human psyche like the rest of us, trying to apply reason, logic, sense whilst taking into account history, primal ...

Well, if they are the unfortunate species then those species that are able to employ sexual reproduction, must be, if we follow that logic, the fortun...

To me, that's where Plato and Aristotle went a little skewed. I think the concept of Platonic perfect forms and Aristotelian ideals are an almost natu...

So you would consider all species on the earth such as starfish, komodo dragons, bees, wasps and many plant and microbial species to be in your revere...

I think Christians and Muslims call that heaven, but you don't even have the possibility of escape via death!

Based on what argument? Humans would have no choice regarding reproduction, if it was asexual. Some living species do reproduce asexually, no intellig...

Everyone they tested in 350BC was a socialist. Everyone they tested today was called Donald Trump or were a member/supporter of the American Republica...

Asexual reproduction is a type of reproduction that does not involve the fusion of gametes or change in the number of chromosomes. The offspring that ...

Thanks for the interesting exchange. I'm away offline for a while to do some other stuff and lick all those wounds you inflicted on me. :joke:

Remember! You are not allowed any exclamation of BS or your more polite 'Totally absurd!'

Looks like the aim is at you. Enjoy the spotlight. I think you can easily handle it.

I think you summarise the situation correctly, regarding the anti-life topic.

I think we just saw a flash of popon-popoff antinatalism. Anyone else notice?

Yep, no life, no anti-life people to complain about their self-awareness.

Yes, but in your Scenario, it turns out that Anna actually did find out the truth of Johns situation because he trusted only her as his confessor. So,...

I too am an optimist but look what can happen if you don't combat the nonsense peddled by others as truth and fact. Recent examples include the stormi...

But do you agree that it is concept areas such as infinity, paradox, perfection, the omnis etc which are the few remaining places that characters such...

Well no, as Anna's output can be incorrect despite her input having a measure of validity when described as empirical. John does look upset/sad but pe...

It probably suffices to type that we both agree that the word 'perfect' (as in perfect method/system/person etc) is another one of those concepts, it ...

Is 'totally absurd' merely your polite version of BS? :naughty: So you agree with me that solipsism is nonsense? Are you declaring yourself a panpsych...