Truth Seeker

I don't know what that means. Please explain. Thank you.

I will. Thank you for your interest. Finland is the 12th country on Earth in terms of HDI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_Human_De...

I wouldn't pat you on the back if you had taken the bribe. I think doing the right thing is important. I am reading a book https://www.amazon.co.uk/Fo...

I agree. I despair when I think about all the suffering, injustice, and death. My depression has gotten worse.

I think you did the right thing by blowing the whistle. Well done.

You are so brave. I hope you triumph against the corrupt.

I am so sorry that I can't right all wrongs.

I first had depression when my younger brother died because of a doctor's error on 9 February 1988. I am so sorry. I didn't know what it was like to l...

I agree. The more depressed I am, the worse I feel, and the harder it is for me to do things. I have been at minus five on the mood scale many times. ...

I don't think this is true. I have considered my ethical system both before being depressed and during depressive episodes. Here is a mood scale: +5: ...

I watched the Near-Death Experience video in full. I think her experience was a hallucination produced by her distressed and frightened brain. I have ...

Thank you for clarifying. In a previous post I had quoted the following: “Ethics, too, are nothing but reverence for life. This is what gives me the f...

I am so sorry that you were ill. I am glad you are feeling better now. In my previous post, I asked: How do you know what is good and what is evil? Yo...

It's not ethical, but it is what happens. Just as people kill people. That's not ethical either. 1. Direct Human-Caused Deaths (War, Violence, Homicid...

Thank you very much for the examples of errors in mathematical proofs. Just because something occurs in nature, it doesn't make it ethical. Lions are ...

I agree. By chaos, I meant non-deterministic. I am not a physicist, so thank you for explaining the difference. I didn't know that. Can you please giv...

I don't need to prove it to you. I have proved it to myself, which is enough. If solipsism is true, I am the only entity that exists. Everyone else is...

Yes, he is an alcoholic and does things like this when he is drunk. We asked the police to help him to get on a program to treat his alcoholism and th...

I know that. This is false. When I slap myself, I feel pain. That proves to me that pain is real. Not convinced. All the gods are evil and imaginary. ...

Thank you very much for answering my questions. You have lived an interesting life and have saved and improved many lives - well done for doing this. ...

I support your goal.

I was diagnosed with Bipolar Affective Disorder Type 2 on the 5th of March 1998, but my parents said that was a mistake. The diagnosis was changed to ...

This is debatable. My parents think that I have recurrent depression. I have had many depressive episodes. I have never been manic. I may or may not h...

I agree that having different information, i.e. God's commands to commit genocides, rape, slavery, and non-Christians going to spend eternity in hell,...

Yes. The Children's Bible is sanitised to exclude God's commands to commit genocides, rape, slavery, and non-Christians going to spend eternity in hel...

Perhaps I should redraw it. No, she didn't have a change of environment. She still lived in the same house in England with her parents. She just chose...

I think I should make some clarifications. By genes, I mean active genes. Genes can be switched on or off due to epigenetics. By environment, I mean p...

Religion is not a determining factor on its own. There are four categories of determining factors: genes, environments, nutrients and experiences. Rel...

I would agree. I agree. I agree, but they are still not free from determinism. They are only free from the religion they were born into. Most humans r...

I disagree with your definition of free choice because having access to information does not make a choice free from the determining and constraining ...

Because it is not a simple situation. Genes, environments, nutrients and experiences interact in complex ways to form neural pathways which lead to ch...

Not just human life. Other sentient biological organisms suffer and die. I don't want any living thing to suffer and die. I want all living things to ...

Thank you for your kindness. BPD is short for Borderline Personality Disorder. Is that what you have, or do you have Bipolar Affective Disorder, which...

No. We experience the culture, the religion, and the traditions we are born into. No one is free from the determining and constraining effects of gene...

Because of all the suffering I have gone through and others have gone through as a result of my choice to trust my psychiatrist instead of my parents....

Life on Earth, as it has been and currently is, comprises much suffering, injustice, and death. That's why I imagined energy beings who don't need to ...

If something doesn't exist, it can't suffer, it can't enjoy, it can't make any determined and constrained choices. Being able to move faster than ligh...

I agree.

Thank you very much for pointing out how other renewable energy sources compare to solar power. I agree that solar is the best option.

Why wouldn't energy beings who don't need to consume air, water and food to live be better than the autotrophs, herbivores, carnivores, omnivores and ...

I agree. I love trees, in fact, I love all autotrophs. I wish all organisms were autotrophs. In fact, it would be even better if all organisms were en...

Thank you very much for sharing your insights about numerical analysis. I am certainly anti-fossil fuel and pro-renewable energy. Solar is not the onl...

Thank you very much for your fascinating post about trees and the problems with human immortality. I learned some new things, which is great.

I am sorry that I don't understand. How can the ageing of most species and the non-ageing of some species be an optimised evolved trait? They are the ...

In that case, why do some organisms age (e.g. humans, cows, dogs, etc.) and some organisms don't age (e.g. planarian flatworms, hydra, Bristlecone pin...

Our brains are continuously processing information and making decisions - from regulating heart rate and breathing to deciding where to look or how to...

Genes, environments, nutrients, and experiences determine and limit what a sentient biological organism can do. That's why I can't do what planarian f...

Genes, environments, nutrients and experiences determine all behaviours. What makes you say: "but it doesn't have as much influence on choice for outs...

I called the thread Understanding Human Behaviour. If my GENE Causal Self Model has helped you understand human behaviour, then this thread is success...

Lots of scientists are using planarian flatworms for many research projects.