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True. And I think that is the point the conversation is trying to address, that the impossibility of nothingness is the cause of existence. Now, the i...

@"jgill" This is the entire conversation. I understand the program uses previous conversations it has had with the user to guide itself, and this is n...

Hello. I tried posting in the general philosophy section an interesting conversation I had with chatGPT about nothingness, but it turns out it is not ...

I answer the questions fully aware they might make things even more confusing. 1. Something inside my body (and therefore a part of) is aware of it (m...

I think I see why the confusion, and please understand the topic is not easy to articulate, and I might as well contradict myself or fail at conveying...

I am assuming that for this exercise the self and the idea of the self are different, and the exercise is concerned with the idea of the self.

I want to re-state the exercise I am interested in conducting taking into account the replies posted so far. Again, the purpose of this exercise is no...

I kind of see what your concern is, and I am gonna say I share it to some extent, and for this reason, in this case, I guess Im trying to separate the...

In the language of Kant I guess I am trying to ask if there are any concepts required for the formation of both the intuition and the concept of the (...

Ok, first, I wanna admit that my language so far has been very ambiguous, please bear with me. I'll do my best to explain what I am trying to do/say. ...

so, you mean that there is no need of the capacity to conceptualize to generate a self? Or like the idea of it? Again, the purpose of the thread is to...

Good point. I guess I am thinking of the human self, (according to me) the idea that one is an entity with the capacity to affect and be affected by t...

Could you elaborate on that?

Since I saw your post, I'd been wanting to play a bit with the AI again; I've added the conversation below. During my conversation with it, I decided ...

"Nothing you feel is genuine because it’s all just manufactured by society". This is bs. What you feel is to some extent dependent on your physical at...

It is one's behavior. Not someone else's.

I'm sure you agree there's an aspect of your behavior that belongs only to yourself since you are a separate individual, an entity. Even if it's true ...

I also believe my thoughts are distinct from me, can't really explain why clearly. All I can say with some confidence is that no matter where they com...

I'm curious though if you think you are different from what you think.

the best I can do right now is: I am aware of many things There are things that are not me (as in, I am aware I am different from them) There are thin...

If we assume that thoughts are different from what creates/controls/observes/thinks them, then we would have to assume that every mental object exists...

We cannot know everything, so at some point in our quest for knowledge we will reach a point in which we will have to use that which we know to talk a...

Another version. The obelisk among the trees. The jungle was getting thicker, warmer, wetter, unbearable, and the donkeys, they were growing even more...

No. Hee-Haw!!!! https://hazon.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/donkey-braying.jpg.638x0_q80_crop-smart.jpg

I decided to change a couple things in the story trying to follow the advise of @"Jamal" and Nils; although now it is longer, I think it flows a bit b...

Im able to hide the stories from the main page by going to the short stories category (short stories dec 22), scrolling all the way down, and clicking...

Thank you all for your comments, I am really glad you guys liked it, thank you. I wanna say I loved the bit of mystery it caused, wasnt really expecti...

We are debating if patterns exist independently of minds, where a pattern is a behaviour - regular or irregular - of (a group of) "stuff"; a behaviour...

In its behaviour (or range of). In the mind-independent world there exists an interface between different behaviours (of groups of particles - i.e., r...

But the relations between two groups of things may depend on the regularity of the patterns they (the things) form within their groups, independent of...

Has a similar writing style to "The Hairpin". I wonder if it's the same author; plus it seems Martita is here as well.

If you are buying?

They needed to generate more inequality to maintain their power, how would they live without it, eh? No one suspected how they would do it; everyone w...

What is conscious is different from what it is conscious about - or what creates is different from its creation - meaning there is more than one thing...

Does the protagonist actually die? He takes the sharp spoon to his mouth, but I don't think he had the time to cut his tongue, or does he go through h...

No. My intention was to highlight that there is no independent action, and thus any decision we make is influenced by some external factor. Free will ...

@"Paul Michael" To choose from a set of choices, we must be affected by the choices themselves before we make any choice. No? Now, I think a completel...

I think it was either Plato, Socrates, or Aristotle (although I might be totally wrong) who said that a future event could be considered the cause of ...

Hey, I wanted to ask if you could explain in which way the speed is separate from the system?

I gotta be a bit nit-picky here and say the statement in question would better amount to the claim that everything perceivable by humans (directly or ...

I meant the opposite - we cannot formulate questions about something that does not affect us in any possible way. The pendulum example was intended to...

Something that does not affect us in any possible way (directly or indirectly) so that it cannot be wondered about (directly or indirectly) because th...

Real is that which is the object of human inquiry.

If one analyzes the concepts of "real" and "reality" from a strictly subjective/human point of view, I think one of the most natural conclusions is th...

Taking the concept of reality out of the equation for a moment, I believe we can assert with confidence that there exists variation in the way things ...

I would say that the resemblance relation is dependent on the instances of a given general property - if there is no or if there is a single instance ...

Imagine an infinitely large line of people or a line of people that goes all the way around earth. Every person in each scenario has a person in front...

But space also changes, doesn't it? I mean, I understand it is supposed to be expanding, although this is not the kind of change I am referring to, si...

@"absoluteaspiration" @"apokrisis" Could you address his questions, if possible.

I don't understand this; specially the part in bold.