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Hello, I just wanted to ask you if you could elaborate a bit more on that. Specifically, I'd like to know what it is that makes you believe that consc...
April 28, 2020 at 04:00
It seems to me that you are placing humans in a pedestal by assigning to us a non-physical entity (the soul) and taking it away from other animals, as...
April 26, 2020 at 04:21
We are also animals.
April 25, 2020 at 04:28
Not the ideas themselves but the machinery that makes them possible. If the machinery that makes ideas possible is constrained by natural selection, t...
April 23, 2020 at 23:26
Yes. And what is it that limits it? It'd say it's the force of evolution. If it is evolution, I'd say that then every idea, which is also limited in i...
April 23, 2020 at 06:12
But is there a limit to the truths you can know? And what determines such limit?
April 22, 2020 at 17:35
I like this idea. I believe live is the result of the universe trying to understand itself as if to attain complete knowledge is the end and beginning...
April 22, 2020 at 17:32
Isn't this true of every notion we have? And if so, how does this affect our notions of knowledge, Philosophy, Mathematics, etc. I mean, if my ideas, ...
April 21, 2020 at 02:13
According to you, what are the conditions for considering something to be alive? I ask because, for example, in my opinion, I believe something must b...
February 20, 2020 at 06:36
Colours are electromagnetic impulses associated by the self to the objects that produce them.
February 19, 2020 at 07:26
Yellow does not exist (as you said, it is EM waves); but the idea that the word "yellow" represents does exist (the nerve impulses that EM waves produ...
February 01, 2020 at 02:37
Or a feature not shared by all gene pools, taking into account that populations next to each other tend to share more genetic markers between them tha...
January 15, 2020 at 06:27
What if racist behaviour is a consequence of human genetics? There is overwhelming evidence in favour of kin selection, a form of selection where indi...
January 15, 2020 at 00:56
and where is this color coming from?
December 07, 2019 at 05:52
Analysis of what the word 'mountain' represents.
November 14, 2019 at 04:35
(1) In order for something to be perceived it must cause an impression in one's mind. (2) This impression cannot be the same as the thing itself, for ...
November 14, 2019 at 04:22
Everything that we considere to exist is limited by some shape or pattern; to exist is to have a limit. Then, I'd say that matter results from the act...
August 08, 2019 at 04:21
I dont see how. You are saying that you must first know what something is to establish its existence. I do not see how that makes any sense. If you ar...
April 12, 2019 at 01:54
By asking what it is, you are already assuming its existence; for how in the world could you inquire about something that does not exist. If you as a ...
April 12, 2019 at 00:50
You do not know what Santa Claus is. You have an idea of it that you have formed by using shapes that you have seen and things that you have heard and...
April 12, 2019 at 00:22
What is a unicorn?
April 12, 2019 at 00:05
What are you trying to say here? If you know what something is then there is no need to ask yourself if it exists because it certainly does. I think t...
April 11, 2019 at 23:25
1. I am me. 2. I am not god. 3. god is not me nor can it be me. 4. god is not onm
January 08, 2019 at 02:21
"So you are saying quality exists just in the observer?": No. Quality must exist independently from the observer. However, its "materialization" could...
August 15, 2018 at 21:48
Quality is that which is given to a body by an observer with the capacity to compare.
August 11, 2018 at 02:22
Yes, ideas do count as things in my definition of "thing"; in fact, everything that possesses a limit I consider to be a thing. And I actually conside...
February 17, 2018 at 22:17
Please elaborate; I would like to know why you disagree. Please try to prove your arguments.
February 07, 2018 at 01:46
"I don't understand why this has to be the case. Isn't it conceivable that you exist just as you now do exist without the existence of a collection of...
February 02, 2018 at 00:56
"Its true that I am what I am because everything else is not me. But it isn't true that nothing outside of me can change without me changing. In fact,...
January 31, 2018 at 20:31
Well consider it this way, before you exist, it must be possible for you to do so, otherwise you would not exist. This possibility seems to be governe...
January 31, 2018 at 18:41
The fact that you exist necessarily implies that everything that is outside you exists since it is something that is not you, and hence it is. The sam...
January 31, 2018 at 16:45
Hey, here is something I wrote not long ago. It kind of solves your problem, I think. For A to become B the following conditions must be true before B...
January 30, 2018 at 22:04
So what if I say that "for existence to exist it must have not existed before?"... and for existence I mean a state that allows for things to exist. I...
January 18, 2018 at 22:11
Look here is what I believe. I will try to be as clear and concise as I can. We say something exists because it has a limit, or shape, or boundary, wh...
January 17, 2018 at 20:23
What if nothingness is a state in which everything is the same thing. However, I believe it exists because it has a limit; that is, nothingness is jus...
January 17, 2018 at 05:47