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Fair, but that still seems to me like you bend the word "I" to fit. The source of our thinking could be wildly different from what most of us think is...

I'd say a more common definition of "I" refers to the body, mind and potentially the soul of someone, not to the source of their thinking.

Let me see what else I can conjure up. Scenario 2: You and I are conversing. I say that I think and therefore am. The problem is that I am a figment o...

I think that anyone now living that comes up with similar wisdom would encounter hard resistance, since these thoughts would be viewed as presumptuous...

The search isn’t, but the results of the search are. "Philosophy (love of wisdom in ancient Greek) is a systematic study of general and fundamental qu...

If you find new things about something that was until recently unknown then isn’t that new?

The search for the unknown. Perhaps you need to define your philosophy that is not being done.

The new thinking was taken over by science, only gossip remains. With the assumption that you are searching for truth. If you want to create beauty th...

Sorry, I am not about to try to dissect that. Too much effort when the text is so convoluted.

This is too heavy for me to bother with. It could be right but it could also be just fluff.

I don't know that philosophy has a point at all. And, there are results other than happiness that you can look for. I just used it as an example. You ...

Fair, but the whole concept would be less messy if you also assumed determinism. If you add enough randomness, the causes will get blurry.

One could look at results. How much has Buddhism achieved? How happy are their followers? If you are unhappy and not achieving anything of use to anyo...

If true randomness exist and we are subjected to it constantly, would there not be new "first causes" being created all the time? If we can trace back...

This was random enough to make me smile.

I think this is the real reason. We want there to be free will. Any other notion is very unappealing, so we resist. A similar problem that a Christian...

Ye, I twisted it in order to explain my problems with it. Sorry Do you agree that you and I could both share the source of thought? A dreaming super c...

Bell's theorem assumes that free will already exist, it used that to prove that true randomness exist. I'm with Einstein on this one. Lack of free wil...

Interesting read and I do not disagree, but I do have a nitpick. If I converse with you, I will differentiate between us by thinking in terms of "I" a...

It behaves randomly in relation to us* Same with a coin toss or a dice roll. If we know enough about the coin/die and all the surrounding, then we can...

Seems I misunderstood your "Alpha" alternative. I agree with it. Within our universe, there must be a "first". However, causality need not cover the e...

Causation need not be a rule for the universe that is on a layer on top of ours. Time, gravity, individuals, energy and causation could all be concept...

Feels to me like you broadened the problem. This is too big for me to even attempt.

These both sounds like bad workplaces, I don’t have experience of such. For me, both private and public has been fine, but public is more relaxed and ...

I can sum it up like this. Private work is driven by profit. Public work lack drive.

I have worked in both sectors. Did an edit in the last post btw.

Well, this isn't about the size of the government. I believe this is often the case but efficiency matter too, more than you would think. Public secto...

Competition for profit, yes. The profit is what drives it. You would not care that your rival was doing great if they did not also cut into your profi...

retracted

This is one of the bad things that needs counteracting, but that is a separate question. No.. Youth rehabilitation + full ramifications shown within a...

Difficult question, but I have a thought that could narrow it down. It requires a bit of background. First off, one thing that no one wrote out but th...

What you call knowledge, I call belief. What you call belief, I call faith.

Here we have it, this is where we differ. You define knowing as "most rational conclusion" and your "knowing" can be utterly changed if new evidence i...

So you can "know" that Einstein was wrong (because he had only theories, no proof) until someone else provides the proof? You and I do not share the s...

A book is a child of sorts; you pour a lot of attention and love into it. Perhaps she was jealous. I would harbor a bit of resentment towards the hobb...

Anyone is free to claim whatever they want. Knowing is another matter to me. Consider this; scientists have spent the last 50 years trying to prove Ei...

When I hear people say they "know" something about religion I will automatically translate that to "believe", because religion is such an unknowable f...

No, I would not claim I know there are no green men on the moon. But I would argue against it. This is just a small matter of semantics, I do not know...

I know that there are tons of things that I have never heard of nor experienced any evidence for, yet I do not claim they do not exist.

I would refer to the Christian god if I were to say this, not a god of my own creation. I suppose it would be more correct to say, "I do not believe i...

True. I surrender.

Don't do this. I can tell you why, in 4 days.

Perhaps I misunderstood you, I thought you meant to say that caring about Israel was somehow a proof of underlying antisemetism, but now that I reread...

Thanks for the debate, you hold out well, even if I didn't follow your arguments.

And this is all just some long-winded logic to convince us that we are probably antisemitic for thinking about Israel? Nah, I am not following.

It doesn't hold logic that you need to be "anti" something to think about it. The other way around holds though, if you are "anti" something then you ...

You claimed before that westerners thinking about Israel probably means that they are antisemitic. Do you retract this statement?

At this point I do believe I am talking to chatGTP, am I wrong?

That you like to deflect is already evident by the fact that I just had to ask the same simple question 5 times in a row and still never got an answer...

This also speaks against your first arguments, when you said westerners hate Jews because they care about Israel.