Well, I see billions and billions of different living beings, and I don't see this "one organism", I think it's an unsubstantiated assumption. If I th...
Well that's the point, it's a misleading use of the word. We commonly think that "survive" means to stay alive. But in "survival of the fittest" it me...
We all die. No one survives, that's the point. Some breed some don't. Or are you defining survival as successful reproduction? Having children is not ...
Maybe this is why deception is easier to identify than honesty, because acting deceptively is often what comes naturally. It is a selfish behaviour wh...
That's easy for you to say, "mind persists and is continuous", but I cannot say that I have the same mind as you, nor is my mind the same as my mother...
I think there are too many subtleties and unknown factors to judge the honesty of your mother in that particular situation. As I said, I think that ev...
There is a fundamental difference between survival and creativity with respect to temporal continuity. "Survival" implies a thing, an organism or bein...
I don't think that this is correct to say that ideas rarely happen in the inner-world. We spend some time talking and we spend some time thinking, but...
I believe that all premises must be reasoned, most come from inductive reason. If a "first principle" is not reasoned, then it is most likely random a...
Yes, that's quite correct because the one you've provided is false. We should dismiss yours and examine mine to see if perhaps it is right. If not, we...
Well sure, to conceive of desire in this way, as if it were a thing in itself, simply "desire", without recognizing the fact that desire always involv...
There appears to be something incorrect in this description. If there is an inner void, then it is impossible that desire is pointed inward, because t...
Fee fie fo fum I smeel the blood of an Englishman. Be he alive or be he dead I'll grind his bones to make my bread. See, the stories that the parents ...
Right, so that's why we need to dismiss block time, and the hypotheses which give rise to it, and start from scratch. Starting from scratch we have co...
Yes, I do agree with that. But just like we can speak contradictions, we can also talk about other things which are impossible, like infinite, unlimit...
Yeah I agree with Mariner, that's why I was arguing that point. To have order is to have form, and form corresponds with actual existence. In Aristote...
That's quite the post. Let me see if I can, in some way, understand what you are trying to say. The space-less point would not have a boundary itself,...
As I said, just because it doesn't fulfill the structural conditions for being music, doesn't mean that any noise chaos. Would you say that the noise ...
You are only trying saying that non-musical sound is "chaotic" in relation to the structured sounds of music. It doesn't have the required structure t...
Music is the subject. In relation to this subject, pure noise may be the potential for music. How is there any actual music in pure noise? All you are...
Where does honesty lie in this approach? For example, here at tpf, I hide behind a username. The people I commune with probably don't interact with me...
I think I brought up creativity. I use it in what I believe is the normal way. It means to bring something into existence, to cause the existence of s...
The "immanent purpose of naturalism". I've never heard that before. Care to explain? I thought naturalism, by definition, excludes purpose. Are you ju...
The mention was of a "transcendent purpose", and the point I made was that this idea doesn't really make sense. Purpose always seems to inhere within ...
Here's another example of why I say your ontology is backward. You look outward for purpose. But clearly we must look inward to find purpose, and purp...
We have two opposing directions, one toward the inside, the other toward the outside. I say we proceed toward the inside. You say we proceed toward th...
Do any of the billiard balls have a mind of their own, and the capacity to move one's own body in the way it wants? If not, then your "ecosystem" is n...
I don't think I would call that difference "fundamental". What is fundamental, is that we and other animals are all animals. So when I said to apokris...
Quite true, if you believe in the idea of language games. But it's quite obvious that we can think and act without using any language. So the mind is ...
Then pragmatism cannot provide the basis for any serious ontology because it does not give mind its proper priority with respect to reality. I don't t...
The problem is that "the world", "complexities", and "systems" are all things created by the mind. Now you're trying to turn this around, and claim th...
I don't see your point. The choices you have made have lead you to believe that I have a keyboard. The fact that you haven't the will to go back and a...
It is not a matter of wishing, it is a matter of believing, that is what conceptualization consists of, deciding what is. If you believe that I have n...
I agree with szardosszemagad we pay our taxes voluntarily. Income tax is based in what is called an honour system, you voluntarily declare your income...
Objects are themselves conceptual, so they are a product of, created by the complex dynamical system of conscious agents. Then we have no agreement. I...
OK, here is one way of looking at this: "The object has momentum". Here is another way of looking at this: "The object has kinetic energy". Each of th...
It's really not that difficult. We are conscious, we are active, therefore we are conscious agents. The conscious agent decides, chooses; one's own ac...
Let me put this in Newtonian terms so that I can understand. To begin with, it is not energy which acts on the object, it is force. The amount of forc...
What I meant by "context", is the context in which the statement was used, the bible, not the context of your personal example. I have no doubt that y...
Well that's the thing about ancient writings, you can interpret them in many different ways. If you are trying to assert a specific interpretation as ...
Unless you can explain to me how the waves in the ocean can exist other than as an activity of the water molecules, it is pointless for you to ask me ...
The point being that if there is no separation between molecules then a wave is impossible. Clearly the separation has not been obliterated or else wa...
Looks like a molecule of water to me. How is that not a particle? The separation is between one molecule and another, and it is this separation which ...
The realm of possibility is the future. The difference between a real possibility and an unreal possibility (something said to be possible but actuall...
The image is of electron density. Do you not understand that the vast majority of the mass of a molecule is found in the protons and neutrons, not the...
I checked the reference, the depiction is of the "electron density" of a particular molecule, not a depiction of the molecule itself. I don't think yo...
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