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You are welcome. It sounds traumatic especially for a young child. I have never been kidnapped. So it is hard to imagine how it would be like to go th...

Neither am I. But we are in the Philosophy forum, and can try learn to philosophise by reading books and discussing the topics. You listed illusion as...

Philosophy doesn't dirty its hands doing tests. That's the job of science. Philosophy inspects the problems, investigates, analyses, reasons, argues, ...

There is no such things as Empirical Logic. We apply our reasoning to the empirical events or objects. The way you apply your reasoning to the events,...

We shouldn't stop at hypothetical talks, but once certain presumptions are agreed, then we could move on to the reasoning on the presumptions, argumen...

Imagination is a powerful mental event, which is a vital concept for providing us with the answers to the discussions. For example, isn't imagination ...

Hypothetical talks are not philosophy, and they belong to mysticism or esotericism. Philosophical discussions are based on logic, reasoning, facts and...

I never said that. You keep misinterpreting me. Anyhow it shows you that bivalent logic is not useful and incapable for the real world uses in describ...

That's cool. Death cannot be the exit from the simulation at all, because no dead person has ever survived after their deaths. Once a person dies, he ...

For some unknown reasons, you changed the subject to Functions. There are differences in functions of math, and functions in computer programming. Can...

Sorry for my late reply. I have been busy with the work, and had no time for reading posts. It sounds too far-fetched to say that we could be aliens e...

Thank you for your confirmation. It's good that we can eliminate simulation from the idea of self and life. We can move on to the other mental states ...

You are confusing between HOL and Computer Programming. In HOL, there is no such things as Boolean values. There are {Truth, False, Unknown, Contradic...

He is not saying life is simulation. He is saying that civilisation is simulation, because it is such a short time of history compared to the whole un...

Under what basis and evidences, life could be a simulation? Simulation sounds like you have control in starting and ending the simulation, and also be...

Please reread my post above.

You should read some good Mathematical Logic books, not the Wiki pages. But think about it even with your common sense. The world contains more proble...

Yeah interesting stuff actually.

You are welcome my friend. Having agreed the OP is not testable or verifiable in formal logic, we still can keep discussing it under philosophy of psy...

Ok your point accepted. :cool:

Nonsense !! Nonsense is just a colloquial expression saying, no you are bloody wrong mate. Many Wiki pages and Youtube videos are rubbish. Don't trust...

A truck load of strawmen here. I didn't deny Boolean values, but I was simply saying that in FOL and HOL, you have the extended truth values including...

Science-fiction must have a plot, and the characters as well as the storyline. The OP seems to lack all the essential elements of qualifying for SF. I...

Science-Fiction sounds acceptable. :)

:nerd: :ok:

Boolean values are applicable up to FOL, but FOL cannot express the full complexities in the world. Hence you are going up to HOL, which has the exten...

If you could provide some evidence or arguments for your "What if" presumption and imagination, then we could further analyse if the what if claim is ...

I disagree. How can a confidence backed by empirical experience and evidence can be related to fear? You might have fear when you assert something you...

You are still under confusion, or don't want to see the real point. We have not been only talking about bivalent system of logic here. If you can reca...

Everything you claimed as possible i.e. dreaming, being under illusions, hallucinations and simulations are all possible, if and only if you physicall...

Perhaps we are just keep missing each other's point. It is understandable that it can happen. After all we have different ways looking at things in th...

If you provide some evidence for your presumption, and if they were convincing enough, then I might say "ok maybe, but are you sure?" Without the evid...

Logically possible, metaphysically maybe, but physically impossible.

Variables in propositional logic is for the whole sentence, not the elements in the sentence, hence its limitation. You are still talking under the pr...

But watching movies bores me to death. I would rather read or go for a walk, or do workouts :D It is impossible for dreams last more than a night, bec...

No illusions or dreams last one's life time. If it did, then it would be reality. Not illusions or dreams. What if, death and dyings are illusions and...

This seems to be your source of misunderstanding. In propositional logic, you would day "This sentence is not true." But in predicate logic, it can be...

I am not a great fan of movies, but recall watching Inception many year ago. It was an interesting movie right enough. Here is an evidence all we are ...

I am surprised too. Will add it into my reading list. :)

Will have reads and get back to your point on this part later.

It seems that you are not able to tell the difference between propositional logic, predicate logic and HOL. What you were saying is confined to propos...

I think you are talking about the Modality and Possible world in Logic, which is interesting subject. Sure, we can talk about the possible world and i...

Wow cool. I never imagined you could have been an ex-Christian. No, I haven't read the Bible at all. All I know about the Bible is the 1 quote. It goe...

In FOL or PL, "X is not true" depends on the content of X. In the traditional propositional logic, there is no option for that, hence it is only true ...

"This sentence is not true." can be true in the form of the sentence X is not true in grammar. Nothing wrong with that. But the content of the sentenc...

The Christian doctrines might have all the answers you are seeking for. Would you not be interested in reading about them?

What are the evidences for the possibilities that you perceived? What makes you not convinced?

My point was crystal clear.

There was no contradiction in "boundary", apart from your misunderstanding on it. "Boundary" can be physical as well as mental. Again your inability i...

If you say, natural language must be translated into some totally precise form (I take it to axiomatic or formal language.), then questioning sentence...