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Good point. In my example there is that sentence in the witchbook; whenever someone says that sentence, the banana turns blue. The effect is repeatabl...

What Sokrates means by "higher order" is what I mean by "level of detail". They are just different words for the same question. The more detailed, the...

OK, disregard the word "because". The word isn't essential here. I just meant the "answer" to the "why"-question. The answer describes cause and effec...

An explanation is an answer to a "why"-question. Why does the apple fall to the ground? Because of gravity. That explains it. Why does this planet hav...

Right. But I consider this line poetry. In this line, magic is a metaphor, I think.

Interesting. Interesting especially for me as I'm not a fan of the fantasy genre. I'm rather a fan of science fiction, particularly of Kubrick and Sta...

This part: I mean, when my will is moving my hand, I can call it "magic" according to Crowley's definition. I can also call it non-magic as I have a s...

Exactly. In the end everything can be called "magic" and "non-magic" as well. As there is no difference, there's no meaning either. Instead, there's t...

It has a meaning, yes. I just skipped it and went directly to the root. So, what is the root of that "meaning"? After all, isn't it an attempt of keep...

I think "before" the big bang there is no time dimension. Therefore there is no cause. It is an incausal spontaneous beginning of something. One might...

The problem I see lies in the "creative" part of AI. I don't mind if AI takes over boring non-creatice tasks. But when AI makes movies, paintings, mus...

I think the ban is a very wise decision.

In my opinion, the whole phenomenon can be called direct as well as indirect, it's just a matter of semantics. The phenomenon per se doesn't care abou...

I think this question isn't adequately put. I'd put the question like this: "If making a distinction is foolish, and you're saying that making a disti...

OK, let me state my comment more precisely: We can't see a single photon because it's too small. Similarly we can't see the star Alpha Centauri becaus...

I think, when you look down, you don't see your hand directly; you see photons (or whatever moving signals) that moved from your hand to your eyes. So...

Hello. Why do you think a "dream" cannot be a perception of the real thing? I think both a dream and a non-dream can be a perception of the real thing...

When an apple lies on the grass, what has caused this setting? I can offer two answers: 1. The apple felt from the tree. Without the tree the apple wo...

I agree completely. (I just use the word "before" in order to be able to write that there is no "before". It's the same lingual logic as in the word "...

Thanks for the link. This reminds me of the question whether there are numbers when the entire world is absent. Was the number 42 there before the Big...

I mean "nothing" in the sense of "no specific thing (no thing) was there to cause the event". The fact that the event happend in vacuum doesn't necess...

You need the beginning of spacetime for the Big Bang to happen, I think. You think there was spacetime before the Big Bang?

I think this topic has nothing to do with logic but with causality. To think that every event has to have a cause is just a human intuition, in my opi...

What if the trigger puller's mind consists of a heterogeneous mosaic of multiple, different will-vectors? Which of the many will-vectors belong to tha...

Thank you for your detailed reply. I see the problem of gradual "measurements" is very complex, and the required algorithms are nearly incalculable. S...

As you say ("in degress"), the problem is not a binary yes-or-no thing but it's a scalable matter, I think. Prove? Power is scalable. You can measure ...

I fear neuroscience alone cannot answer my questions; in this deep area they exceed the possibilities of empirical tools. I guess an interdisciplinary...

Not even the One, i.e. the absolute singularity, is non-compounded. The One needs the Zero in order to differ itself from the Zero. So for its permane...

From my point of view, an event that is caused at random outside the solipsist's will is an event that is -- tautology -- an event that is not control...

English isn't my native language, but from a logical point of view, when there are multiple instances of a "Jack-in-a-box", aren't there multiple Jack...

If we can have multiple parallel worlds, each world for a single solipsist, then I think the idea of multi-solipsism is not paradox. But what I find p...

For example, the word "purity" itself doesn't say anything about the deeper psychological picture the person gets when the person says the word "purit...

Javi, thank you. Debates are fine. I'm not complaining. I'm just no expert in those particular historic details; I'm unable to add anything to that pa...

As I am an agnostic atheist, I'm unable to contribute with helpful comments in this discussion about "God's bodies" and "Plato's ideas" etc. I'm sorry...

Yes, but that doesn't exclude the idea of seeking for mercy in an overly controlled way rather than in a randomly surprising way, does it?

Premise 1: I think religious persons seek control more than other persons do. After a slight loss of control they fear great instability. So it may be...