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Thanks mate. The pizza was good. But seriously ... There are about 900 pages in my Oxford Handbook of Mind, and it weighs like a brick. So there must ...

Was it using the punch cards for the data storage? That is still bits. Maybe it was powered the analogue power, to denote electricity for the machine....

Explain what is the content of the matter, and how is it non-physical. And elaborate why it should be the essence of human mind with evidence. I am aw...

There are many different views on the question. Depends on what you believe, but it is not a simple to just say either this or that.

If anyone comes with the picture of the old electronic analogue meters or vintage recording machines, and call them analogue computers, then no I have...

The essence.

Sure but the fact that humans are made of matter, and the physical body is not enough argument to say the real entity of mind and souls are also the p...

That was my point mate.

You can see machines whatever you want, but human brains cannot be reduced to machines. And analogue computers? That is just another contradictory con...

Good examples not to trust everything you see on the internet sites. Could have been written by the teen nerds.

For my reply to the OP, human brain cannot be reduced to machines, just because some machines are made to copy some of the functions of human brain. S...

I see them all the time :)

I was not saying the device are fiction. I said the discussion will end up in fiction :D

If definitions are too wide, then discussions end up science fiction.

They are just electrical devices, not computers.

If a device is analogue, then it is not a computer.

I am not sure if analogue computer has ever existed. Every computer ever existed in history is all digital from my knowledge. Can you list some exampl...

I feel that the OP definition is not the same as mine in agnostic. I would have thought agnostic is for "not being sure", "don't know up to now", rath...

It sounds like you are rejecting logical argument. Philosophy devoid of logic? cannot be philosophy.

A great idea. :up:

This is what I think. When an arithmetic calculation is performed, the answer is not in the adding or subtracting numbers, but it comes from the intui...

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It is so simple. Don't try to complicate it. You believe something, then you must know it. You cannot believe something that you don't know OK? For yo...

I don't know anything about God you listed. I was just demonstrating the logical argument, and it proved with the conclusive truth. It could have been...

Your reply was appropriate. Don't feel like that. I was just trying to elaborate more in Wittgensteinian manner on the argument. :)

To be a genuine atheist, one has to be silent, when asked "Does God exist?"

It follows when one says, God does not exist, it it same meaning as God does exist.

It is impossible to be an atheist. Because, to say that God does not exist, one must know what God is. If one knows about God, then God must exist, be...

When one asks what is X, or the fundamental nature of X, that is when metaphysics starts. When X is defined, the definition comes from reasoning using...

Philosophical logic and analysis are the methodical principle to sieve out the claims of pseudo science and science religions from the genuine scienti...

Sure. Good idea. :up:

It is the most fundamental method of proving in Logic that the example was irrelevant and senseless for the argument. It shows the example proposed is...

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That was just to say, that your example of child cannot do math is not relevant and not sensible in the arguments by giving you the contradictory case...

My initial post was asking, if the big bang was a scientific religious theory.

The agnostics read it too.

The Big Bang seems based on the material principle of inference, so I was trying to seek materially based inferences (the explosion and bouncy castle ...

To test and formulate rigorous scientific laws and principles, it needs philosophical analysis, logic and reasoning.

Sure, thanks for your confirmation. :up:

It is an inferred question I suppose.

The problem with bouncy castle scenario is not the castle itself, but finding out "who pressed the button".

Does Kant define what is transcendental metaphysics in the CPR?

Yeah, come to think of it, the bouncy castle belief on the BB theory sounds more esoteric than the explosion scenario. That would have looked like a s...

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There you have it too. :)

So why was it condensed at first place? What was the nature of the condensed matter?

Wow, that is a bouncy castle pumping up then. ok.

I do value Science, but also am aware that some of their theories are imaginative and unrealistic. And beware there are many pseudo sciences too.

What force are you talking about? Adam.