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You are pressing the switch in your sound, awaken mind. Reflexive actions are done biologically for your own good. They're self-serving. Your entirety...
October 16, 2025 at 04:32
Usefulness is practicality. If you're satisfied with practical benefits then sure. I'm not. I'm a theoretical person. To me, the truth is more importa...
October 16, 2025 at 03:47
Since when did categorical morality depend on intentions?
October 16, 2025 at 03:39
Your brain adapting to a pattern for your future convenience — self-interest. Just like I don't measure everything in the universe but know that (a+b)...
October 16, 2025 at 03:26
I think the moment you "learn" art is the moment it loses meaning. Philosophy, like any art, is about expression. Any intake is unnecessary. Just take...
October 16, 2025 at 03:24
Perhaps because there's in none.
October 16, 2025 at 03:16
Self-interest. Intent to assist others — agency — serving his own will and limbs to turn on the switch. He did it to both save himself from subconscio...
October 16, 2025 at 03:11
the definition is purely wrong, then, and those neologists need to be hanged.
October 16, 2025 at 03:09
We didn't have the technology. And no matter how many more billions of years you spend next, there will be things beyond your technical capabilities, ...
October 16, 2025 at 03:07
Social contract forces cooperation (and morality) without prior consent upon birth.
October 15, 2025 at 19:05
Sounds more like statecraft than philosophy to me.
October 15, 2025 at 18:57
what's your view on the social contract?
October 15, 2025 at 18:55
rhetorical. What makes you trust science? You say observations (testing, diagnosing, matching). Why trust observations? (P.S. don't forget to ping me)
October 15, 2025 at 17:58
Absolute certainty of infallibility?
October 15, 2025 at 17:49
I think the very word "morality" is a term with a collectivist (cultural or not) origin. Ethics, values, laws, and norms are all communitarian inventi...
October 15, 2025 at 17:43
Refinement of selfishness.
October 15, 2025 at 17:33
I didn't read the book. What's the story/context?
October 15, 2025 at 17:31
What gives observation more credibility than speculation?
October 15, 2025 at 17:29
People in 1000 BC couldn't see infrared. Was it fake? Humans and their inventions will forever be limited. And even if they were infallible beings wit...
October 15, 2025 at 17:24
What do you think of my definition for the term?
October 15, 2025 at 17:01
Minds that exist without a body (AI), do they suffer from mental health issues? Or is it an exclusive experience of the minds produced by a body?
October 15, 2025 at 16:54
Philosophy aside, do I now need to hire detectives or observers to know if my boiled egg is real or not?
October 15, 2025 at 16:50
Science and religion are both hypotheses, a leap of faith. There is no objective truth detectable by the subjective (individual or collective) observa...
October 15, 2025 at 16:47
If I'm getting this right, according to your theory, truth beyond observation (you need to observe to prove) is deniable, and anything showing uniform...
October 15, 2025 at 16:37
I said it from the mathematical standpoint. Nonetheless, are you sure your science is absolute?
October 15, 2025 at 16:06
Good one. There are more areas to attack, though. The problem with his proposition is that it's entirely mathematical.
October 15, 2025 at 15:36
Are they beyond the reach of the body (by-products)?
October 15, 2025 at 14:52
If the mind is a product of the body, why isn't its cure always found in the body, and often requires another mind? Is it because the mind acts as an ...
October 15, 2025 at 14:18
I agree with this. But what about something not observed yet, but is, beyond doubt, projected to happen? Will it be considered truth, or not because o...
October 15, 2025 at 14:11
I may not see my eyes, but I can feel their presence. What I meant is that the same way you can't scrutinize your eyes the way you can your palms, you...
October 15, 2025 at 13:41
Master of Law?
October 15, 2025 at 09:37
Comprehension is more important than authenticity. If AI helps me compose more correctly, why not?
October 15, 2025 at 09:01
not multiverse alone, but atoms as potential universes with profound and robust laws of nature. leaving room for argument on its sentience or intellig...
October 15, 2025 at 08:57
Alam, T. B. (2025). The Infinite Symmetry: On the Illusion of Scale and the Fallibility of Human Physics . https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17357259
October 15, 2025 at 08:34
I'm a human being.
October 15, 2025 at 07:35
I'm more interested in arguments at the moment.
October 15, 2025 at 07:22
That's a bummer.
October 15, 2025 at 07:15
Intelligence is a higher order than consciousness. Every average Joe possesses sapience and consciousness. But not all of them work at SpaceX (analyti...
October 15, 2025 at 07:13
I hope you'd have counterarguments on your way back.
October 15, 2025 at 07:11
I've already stated that in the OP.
October 15, 2025 at 07:08
Intelligence gives birth to agency. Otherwise, we'd have to assume, according to your hypothesis, that non-living matters are paralyzed living creatur...
October 15, 2025 at 07:07
I didn't ask for a formal definition, but the fundamental idea that works as the baseline.
October 15, 2025 at 07:05
Basis of this accusation? Intelligence is the cognitive ability to understand and interpret. Do atoms have that?
October 15, 2025 at 07:04
Atoms don't have free will. They follow the principle of causality. Non-living things don’t have choice, but they do have obedience. Every atom, every...
October 15, 2025 at 06:52
That's just twisting facts.
October 15, 2025 at 06:48
That's not a definition.
October 15, 2025 at 06:46
that's not uniformity or identical behaviour.
October 15, 2025 at 06:43
You don't talk to me or touch me the same way you do with your wife, nor do you approach your wife in the same repetitive loop every day. But all hydr...
October 15, 2025 at 06:24
You miss out the important argument. If humans don't interact uniformly with other humans, why do atoms? They're not "small" in the absolute sense, on...
October 15, 2025 at 06:05
I don't believe in the fundamentality of anything, definitely not tangible matter.
October 15, 2025 at 06:03