Copernicus

I started reading MYSTICISM by Evelyn Underhill today in my university library (I read a total of 2-3 books in my 23 years of life; not a reader), and...

Causality (necessity and response). Now, if you ask why the universe has causality as its founding grammar, that's a different discussion.

This is exactly why abstract reasoning should take precedence over empirical observations. Because, due to human subjectivity and limitations, science...

Thoughts are like actions. They're a continuous process. Whether one gives birth to another or spawns subsequently is not the question here. When I ea...

Celebrating the works of Copernicus

AFK

It seems I'm not compatible with this platform. I'm taking a leave. Thank you for your cooperation.

Why do we need a community?

And what is your proposed better alternative to that?

Yes, we'd need a standard definition for "self".

Yes, it has practical benefits. But no, I don't care.

The cheapest thing one can do is work for money.

I post an entire thesis statement and still have to debate with 200 comments. If I only post the idea then the debate will span to 1000 comments — a n...

I'm here for peer review, not attention or open-minded discussion.

I believe my rhetorical suspension has ended and I deserve to post.

It's not. "I'm sure everything is unsure" = Everything is unsure. "I'm unsure if everything is unsure" = Everything is unsure.

If you meant from the aspect of causality (butterfly effect), then sure, we're related. But if you meant uniformity like electrons, then you're missin...

I hope you remember the spoon scene in The Matrix. Exactly. It doesn't deny, only skepticizes. How am I related to the chicken?

You're now plainly trolling with irrelevant and illogical counterarguments.

Everything is a leap of faith. True reality is forever unknown. But detected patterns often show uniformity.

I can judge the nature of a nitrogen electron from Andromeda from the nature of an electron of oxygen here on Earth. The foundational nature is univer...

Individual observation isn't needed to find natural law. Something we call sampling.

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Look.

All serving the self. I can't see where not.

Practical tool, yes. Means to learn about reality? No. Not the TRUE reality. Like I said, I'm a theoretical person with little concern for practicalit...

You captured it yourself. My view towards selfishness. Hence I said bravo.

Serving his desire and agency to protect his children.

Yes. My point was that words can have dumb meaning.

Yes.

Yes. And I believe you grasped what I meant here.

If that learning on its own goes beyond calculated prediction. Yes, that's debatable.

...people call mass "weight".

Goodness... Do you even understand what a metaphor is? This is hopeless at this point.

Yes, thematic. I don't say this 5 cm area of my consciousness is 31 degrees Celsius hot, so to speak. That's what I said. You can't dissect it like yo...

seems like you completely missed my point.

I see principles as constitutional amendments. The job of philosophy is to codify morals (doctrinate) with propositional arguments and then come to a ...

Perhaps I follow a particular sub-branch of the ideology, like anarchism within libertarianism.

Whatever that may be, it's not categorical morality (adherence to rigid principles).

Tell that to your fellow militants. I'm a colonel and you're a sergeant and I shout "attention", you must comply. Same with principles and actions.

Not in categorical morality, sorry.

What I said was that we can't mentally feel and touch our consciousness to dissect it for understanding. Only a thematic comprehension.

what you described is situational (contextual) morality, which leaves room for due diligence, conscience, and judgement call. Categorical morality is ...

...follows principles (accepted doctrines) and principles only. Intent, approval don't matter. A categorical moralist is a robotic person who's progra...

Yes.

such as?

Mind isn't the whole of the person. Body can't be sidelined. Agency requires both (not necessarily in synergy; can be done independently). It is. It r...

If it shows signs of cognitive behaviour beyond its programmed capacity. Of course not. Bacteria lacks consciousness.