bahman

You are correct if you define evil as absence of good.

That is true. We cannot judge perfection by which I mean we cannot say that something is perfect or not. But the subject of this thread is not that wh...

Quantized things are physical and have forms. What do you mean?

Could you please provide the reference? Yes, that is true. We can never observe causation. The only thing that we can observe is correlation between e...

To me physical is made of stuff and has form, such as chair. I cannot comprehend non-physical thing such as mind.

Why? I cannot understand.

An indeterminable state could be anything and it could lead to anything. An indeterminable state could be X, Y, Z etc and in that sense is indifferent...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTa2Bzlbjv0

The main questions are why something imperfect should be created or how something imperfect could be created? Is that what you want to ask? Probably. ...

Is indeterminate state an indifferent state? You understood that the former statement is contradictory therefore its negate should be correct.

I don't believe in materialism. In fact I used exclamation to show the irony in the statement. How consciousness which arises from material process ca...

I should have written "No, an indeterminate state could not lead into many determinate things since it is indifferent.". I don't know why I made such ...

Double post. Deleted.

No. Why?

Yes, an indeterminate state could lead into many determinate things since it is indifferent.

C cannot be an indeterminate state. How could you get something determinate, B, from something indeterminate, C? You need nothing to allow changes and...

Meaningful? Sorry, I should have gave some examples: (1) A stone which is rolling down a hill. Tendency means that it is under a force to move in a gi...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4DXz4FmrDA&feature=related

I don't know whether the reality is discrete or continuous. Regardless you can develop a same model for continuous case. You are left with mere experi...

Do you agree with the definition of materialism in OP? If yes, there is no room left for consciousness since physical process determine everything. We...

But there are several objections to identity theory (quoted from Mind: A Brief Introduction by John R. Searle): "There were a number of objections to ...

The point is that we have to know how to reach from A to B. That requires nothing between. It cannot be something, lets call it C, since we need to kn...

I don't know anything like non-physical process.

Thanks for the article.

Yes, cause exists. It explains how a piece of matter affects another piece.

What is missing in his argument is that how a thought is created and can have a causal effect.

That is the process which does the job. The brain state is an simple index which we use to differentiate different state from each other. Are you sugg...

I can buy that but the question is whether consciousness has any causal effect at all. We know it by fact that we learn things when we pay attention t...

That is the best materialist argument that I know. Do you have or know a better argument than that? Any reference?

Could you learn the content of a book while unconsciously reading it and your consciousness is busy with somewhere else, listening to music for exampl...

Under materialism, consciousness cannot have any causal effect on the state of affair since the state of affair is defined in term of physical process...

Can we agree on definition of materialism given in OP?

No. Materialism leads to epiphenomalism. Consider physical process as vertical. Consciousness is the result of physical process but vertical, down-up....

The problem is when neither B or A exist. This means that you have nothing so this question becomes relevant that how you could have B from nothing?

We are a collection of self-aware entities sharing different realities. Everything is conscious. To be honest I cannot understand anesthesia.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDkBzkA9L4s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlJ1Yvjb198

I am not talking about continuous movement. In fact my argument is about a discrete movement.

That is what I am trying to say: What we experience is no longer there. Experience is always comes after existence. This means that there is nothing e...

Ok. What is -S? Could you give an example? In my case annihilation just destroys S and leaves us by noting whether S is the ironess of iron or thought...

I don't understand what you are arguing against. Form is nothing than state.

You cannot deny that the stuff we experience has a form, meaning that it is in specific state.

Memory of past is what is experienced, S and also those state before S.

Yes, that is correct. I never said that S and its experience are same. The change in experience is the result of perceiving S and later S'. Not really...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyFzpBAZICc

That is content of your mind which changes.

I think there is a reason, more than being fun, behind this, since this is not fun at all.

Mind does not change. What it experiences changes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJAfLE39ZZ8

Of course there is the laws of nature. We experience it in any moment of our lives. Mind is however dominate to the laws of nature.