Sounds like an interesting read, we also have no idea what further or less intelligence does to your perception and experience of emotion. What is an ...
I don't think we can be as certain about the mental capacity of severely mentally disabled humans, which is why euthanasia is such a controversial top...
Fair points, I suppose the only way I can justify my meat consumption is that if an intelligence form with as much on me as I have on the chicken come...
a) Chickens do a lot to avoid death when confronted by a recognizable danger but I could easily stroll up to a domesticated chicken with a gun or perh...
Emphasis on the unattainable. Most people become very agitated in the search of peace. Thinking it can be found via routes such as ending suffering or...
What would you say if I let the chicken do as it pleased it whole life and then, without any sort of anticipation or a single other chicken around, in...
I'm not sure I would relate morality to docile nature. For starters morals are incredibly diverse among individuals and cultures. If it is empathy you...
Human's psychological traits do not reflect those of an apex predator and nor did we develop them in such a role. Sapiens (and a few other big brained...
It may be the most complex structure on earth but is it as complex as the galaxy we live in? Is it as complex as the workings of a sub atomic particle...
Yes, I don't mean a conventional reincarnation more that we will, have and currently may be experiencing other perspectives. Concepts like memory and ...
I see no reason to believe only the human mind should be capable of generating experience, it is no different or more complex to many systems in the u...
A scary thought we might simply be the construction of others perceptions and knowledge of us or our actions, but what of secrets and deep unshared th...
I think it is incredibly arrogant to say everything is purely physical as 'I think therefore I am.' My problem with a lot of spiritual ideas is that t...
I carefully replaced every use of the word conscious with experience in my article before posting it to avoid this exact debate. Free-will is a concep...
exactly, that's why the notion we could all be the very same experience thrills me, maybe one day (excuse the implication we haven't already been) I o...
i don't think my post is going through onto the forum? the text is a light grey and there isn't any conversation on it thought it's been up for 3 hour...
In the grand scheme of the universe I don't see a great purpose or relevance to human life I completely agree. But in order to make decisions and func...
possibly my entire surrounding is generated by my mind I suppose there would be no knowing but I don't believe that to be the case. If it were then I ...
Thanks very much for the link that's very informative :) But I don't believe the being should transcend the concept because by all means where the phy...
I don't think it was created by a god. I don't know how the universe came to be but I think when approaching the matter it's worth considering that ma...
Perhaps in a similar way that the context of the human brain is me, evolution was a designing god. It would be contradictory to my initial thoughts to...
fundamental in what way the transformation of energy, the conservation of information and mathematics entirely rely fundamentally on the absence of cr...
I agree I think logic is a helpful tool for decision making and discovery but it cannot govern the universe as it is useless without some degree of as...
I essentially believe that though outside of my own perspective and from a truly rational view of the universe my personal desires have no real value ...
I think the idea of creation is an inherently flawed concept. It just coming back to what created what created what. I can only logically conclude tha...
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