Daniel

This down and up refers to their spin right? I'm no physicist.

Again, how can there be change when there are no parts? Please, please, please! Answer the question! Explain to me the process in which something chan...

Because the idea of something existing when all of its properties cannot be differentiated from each other (the quality of difference does not exist) ...

Beautiful, and I agree. But what is not-A? If it would be something, at all. How do you conceive of this thing which is not A?

If by separable parts you mean that it has parts but they cannot be by any means separated (I'm aware this would be the literal meaning of "separable ...

I wanna recommend At the Mountains of Madness by H. P. Lovecraft (or most of his stories) if you'd like to experience a bit of dark suspense.

That's very true. Do you (or anyone) have by any chance writings on the kind of metaphysics we are talking about? I understand many ancient philosophe...

Excellent question. I am thinking about it, and it makes me wonder if you are asking if it is possible for two things to have nothing in common.

Imagine a pendulum hanging from your ceiling, for example. Let's assume the pendulum oscillates in two dimensions indefinitely without ever coming to ...

Could you explain that a little more? You mean that as relations to exist, it first presupposes "things" to exist as to get related? That's why you th...

0 = the mind; or the mind and 0 belong to the same category of things?

Maybe with the help of a taxidermist.

I agree with Jerry here. I think variety/diversity is a "law of nature;" it is absolutely necessary that there exists more than one thing (it cannot b...

I have to ask; how the fuck do you divide a boner?

@"T Clark", although I do not have any papers on the topic, I would like to bring up a point that I think is often overlooked (I might be wrong here, ...

How can something that has no extension be able to have states, as in the states of mind? Are they states of an expanse-less thing? Try to imagine tha...

If the mind is a thing then it occupies a space. Or are there things that do not occupy a space?

A while I ago I asked myself if there was a basic unit of thought, but I never really pondered about it. Your OP brought me back to it, and somehow I ...

What about voting for none of the options? Don't you have that option in your country?

Your post made me think about the following, but before I put it forward, I would like to state that it was thought based on the following premise, wh...

I am not convinced by what you bluntly and carelessly state in proposition number 2. I cannot say 2 is false or true simply because I am not able to f...

@"Bartricks" And I think you must show if our belief in normative reasons is actually evolving or not. If it is evolving, you need to show if it is ev...

@"Bartricks" Would you agree that reasons to do things are founded upon knowledge about the outcome of an action. For example, let's say a person woul...

If I am mental, you are fucked.

COULD SOMEONE ELSE EXPLAIN TO ME WHAT BARTRICKS MEANS BY REASONS-TO-DO AND WHAT THE POINT OF THE OP IS?

It's impossible to understand. Your examples are very complex. No one can read your mind, and if you do not try to actually give simple examples is go...

Reasons to do things are dependent on evolution (a mind like yours must come up with them, and a mind is the result of an evolutionary process). Evolu...

Yes, I believe there are reasons to do things.

You are saying that a reason to do something is not a cause to do something, but a directive. What's the difference?

But to me they are rooted in natural processes. A reason to do anything is an invention of a mind.

Also, what is a reason to go a get some food.

Ok. Forgive me. I mean well. The thing is that I just cannot understand what you mean by reasons-to-do things. It seems to me that in your mind you pi...

In other words, I think I am alive not because there are reasons to be alive but because by being alive I have come up with reasons to believe I am.

The kinds of reasons you talk about are being caused. They are outcomes. That which you call a reason to do something is an outcome of a process and n...

The molecular machinery that keeps cells alive gets worn with time. It does not last forever and needs to be replaced. New molecules are made of nutri...

Are you saying the reason one gets hungry is not a lack of nutrients but instead an idea given by god to those organisms that feel a need to eat?

If I don't eat, the cells that make me will lack the nutrients required for the normal functioning of the molecular processes that maintain such cells...

What is a reason here?

yes

Give me an example of a reason itself. I am asking because I truly do not understand what you mean by a reason.

Give me a reason you believe you are alive.

Give me a reason you believe you are alive. Don't reply to my previous post.

A reason to believe something is not under evolutionary constraint directly, I think. If I understand correctly, these reasons you mention are complex...

Can you give an example of one of these reasons you talk about. The most simple you can think of. To be honest after reading and re-reading many of yo...

But such intuitions are rooted in sensory faculties which tell about something external. A sensory faculty, by definition, senses something outside it...

Believing you are a human being.

If we consider existence to be a group of properties (one or more, and any), then non-existence or nothingness would be the lack of all properties. It...

Always changing then?

Man, this is one of those almost impossible questions. Sometimes I like to think everything is space, and the rest is just differences in space just t...

Hey. Could you explain what you mean by "regression towards the mean"?