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OK, haha. I find your idea regarding "coherence" quite fascinating. By the way, I didn't consider my wave thing a metaphor. I think it's simply a grap...

I think I can integrate your description in the "survival+" picture that James painted and that I agree with: However, I guess there's a gradual trans...

When you survive a volcanic eruption, you become something you haven't been before: You become an experienced volcanic eruption survivor. You'll be ab...

I'm wondering: Is survival not a great thing actually? Reinhold Messner has placed himself in countless dangerous scenarios in the Himalaya and Antarc...

That philosophical idea is not just an argument against nihilism. That was just an example. That philosophical idea is also just that: A philosophical...

It probably won't help the victim of a brutal crime or disease. It might help a little when somebdy uses heroin because she or he is caught in a nihil...

Something must grow from non-valuable to valuable, like non-grass to grass, like non-tree to tree. Well, you could also say: Something must shrink fro...

Here's an example: The whole idea might be of some help to depressive or nihilistic, frustrated people, when they're not seeing any root or basis apri...

Why do you replace "is valued" in the quote with "ought to be valued"? There's obviously no "ought" in that quote. Do you do this because you think th...

I guess "value" in this context means "good". Now what is the definition of "good"? I think, the word "good" only makes sense if it refers to somethin...

I don't see an "ought" either. I forgot to add this info to my last post. Since the start of this discussion I've been seeing just an "is", not an "ou...

I guess it's a matter of this quartet: Random, Causality, Logic, Math. You don't exist before you start to exist. You can only decide when you are the...

What about that? Premise 1: All living subjects are good. Premise 2: A value generator is s a living subject. Conclusion: A value generator is good. N...

I read your comment which has been deleted (I don't understand why; it sounded on-topic to me). Thank you, James. I'll think about the spiritual aspec...

Just an additional thought: Are pain and happiness equally distributed in life? What do you think? Or does happiness dominate? Obviously, pain is not ...

OK. Maybe Love and Life are even synonyms. The two words sound similar, at least in Germanic languages, hehe. Anyway, a new living creature can only c...

This is exactly my way of thinking too, except that I allow emotional functions within this structure. I call this structure "love". But not in the ro...

This is a logical conclusion. Being an agnostic, I assume the christian god is unable to manipulate these logical axioms (and all mathematical laws); ...

I understand that every scalable quality requires a certain bandwidth in order to generate contrast. Without contrast, the world would be gray. I just...

I really think that I do understand your point. Even when just a single photon is sent at a time, and interference occurs, I think my question is on-t...

Are we not talking about the double slit experiment where light is sent through slits and certain interferences are observed?

Understood. But it must be "something" that changes its property at a certain frequency, so that a frequency can be detected and filtered by the recei...

I'd like to know what variable makes an electromagnetic wave. I mean ... In water waves it's the variable water surface height that makes the wave. In...

What do you mean by "lower"? Is appetite not an essential phenomenon in life? What is love in your view? Is it something lower or something higher? Wh...

If you use the word "self-deception" you presuppose the possibility of a fight "X against X". Self versus self. I don't think that's possible. In my v...

I agree with Dawnstorm's comment:

I think the word "rational" comes from "ratio". For example, "1/2", "1:2", "5/4", "5 versus 4", "A/B" are ratios. When I try to make a rational decisi...

Yes, I can. There can be countless factors that I may consider and take into account. My point is, that every factor refers to what I like the most. I...

Here's a Beethoven CD and there's a Bach CD. I like Beethoven better than Bach. This is a rational choice: I take the Beethoven CD. That's an irration...

"Phenomenological theories". I've been calling them "empirical theories". "Fundamental theories". I've been calling them "metaphysical theories". In m...

Here's another suggestion regarding two categories: This time with two kinds of mindsets. Hypothesis: "All random events so far were not really random...

I think there are two kinds of why-questions: Why does ...? Why should ...? "Why-does" implies a reason or cause. "Why-should" doesn't imply a reason ...

Good. So incausality is possible. Next question: Why should the first cause, of all possibilities, be a god and not the universe itself or chaos itsel...

Who designed the intelligent designer? Who designed the designer of the intelligent designer?

For practical purposes, yes. As long as the prediction algorithm works within a tolerance useable for our purposes, I call it a robust thesis. I just ...

Yes, we can assume that the mathematical and logical laws will be valid forever, so we can use them in our prediction models. But that's just the skel...

I'm hungry. This box contains an apple, that second box is empty. As I'm hungry, I have a good reason to take the first box. That's a reason. (This ex...

I agree with that statement, but I disagree with your conclusion. I think a mathematical description is just that: a description; the description itse...

I'd say reason is a logical, timeless context; for example: The sum of all angles within a triangle is always 180 degrees. There is a reason that the ...

If there is an almighty god, what is the reason, explanation, ground for his existence or occurrence? Who designed god? Who designed the designer of g...

Of course, randomness -- Heisenberg's indeterminacy principle -- contradicts with the PSR dogma. But there's no reason (!) to solve that contradiction...

In the original post I'm missing this: Type 4: Random.

What about the workers in the mines that deliver all the silicon which will be used in the computer chips that host this website? Do we mention them? ...

I don't take this thread seriously, and I don't want to defend it, but I want to reply to that particular thought quoted above: I think a thread gets ...

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I'm interpreting the program suggested in the OP as a proposal, not as a duty. I don't know how the situation on this subject is in the USA, but there...

I didn't name their cause. Do you believe in determinism? I don't.

I hear and see incausal things all the time: For example in transistor noise (audio amplifiers, analog screens etc.). There are countless micro events...

Why do you assume there is any causality "before" the big bang?

Of course, it's silly. With that silly explanation I just want to set a striking starting point for my question: How high must the described order be ...