Perhaps a little bit of evidence or even a specific criticism of the assertion would be a little more intellectually courageous than a simple stone th...
Although not PC, I think that there was some beauty contained within the horror of Nazi ideology. This 'beauty' a love of social order, a rejection of...
Tyler You appear to me to be attempting to justify a common place conclusion, rather than allowing the known facts direct you towards a new view or an...
The issue at hand is your presumption that brain activity is the cause and consciousness the effect. There are two flaws with this logic both of which...
Tom You have declined to define what you mean by "The stationary space-time block" and yet you are telling me that I am referencing this idea when I w...
Please expand upon what you mean by 'The stationary space-time block' This is your phrase (not mine), and you have suggested I am happy with it? Pleas...
Agreed. So lets get on with the essential business of providing an intellectually valid Universal construct that combines the determined and atemporal...
This mode of discussion, smacks of the new religion of the materialist. One feels as though one is at an inquisition of sorts, questioning the almight...
If the future exists apriori how can our personal future be open.? This multiverrse stuff sounds like a sophisticated version of the god delusion... A...
One does not need QM to prove the absence of free will. Special relatively already achieves this without equivocation. Temporal shifts at high velocit...
I don't think philosophy has anything to do with preference. Although preference determines one's philosophy. The lure of good philosophy is that it r...
If we consider that 'bias' is the process of adopting a view that is outside of or in contradiction of the evidence presented, and that bias can gener...
Not certain which argument you are referring to. My original and current point is that mind or consciousness has not been shown to arise from material...
one small breech in the dam and an eager philosopher rushes to the spot and sticks his head in the hole. For a time the job is oxo, until the next cra...
I suggest that this position is a consequence of a; pleasing, tempting, fashionable, contemporary and entirely materialist bias. The word I use is 'ob...
There is a contradiction between your equation of life force and entropy. Entropy is a tendency towards disorder. The singular mystery of life is that...
Objectivity does not exist as it is entirely dependent upon subjectivity, which itself is rather dubious,as it must first presume the self to be an ob...
A rejection of existence requires the application of or validation of the same faculty upon which or within which.this God entity is manifest. If we d...
It may be ultimately a false faith. However within the context of my existence as a functional expression of thought, I am driven by a deep desire to ...
This is interesting. There are two views from separate perspectives. 1) On an individual level human beings are motivated more by emotion than by reas...
Rank A That is a lovely phrase "condemned to freedom". . No I don't see how this can be the case. To deduce that if determinism is true and we are unf...
Because Freudian 'todestrieb' is ridiculous and is the point at which Psychoanalysis begins to fail. There is no death-drive. Human beings do not subc...
I have made no appeal to emotions? merely stated that they may be an aspect of that which is truly free. We must disagree here, BUT it is only on a po...
Should we avoid the elucidation or comprehension of a potentially all encompassing 'fatalistic' reality out of a fear of this potentially 'overwhelmin...
I don't think Nietzsche was anti-God, he was anti-human, or more correctly anti-(most) humans. The beauty of Nietzsche lies in his relevance to those ...
Posty There is no alternative because there is no 'material' interventionist supreme authority to arbitrate on the matter and incarcerate or silence t...
Tom From what I have read of Karl Popper thus far in respect of his "solving" Hume's Problem, I remain entirely unconvinced. Please might you referenc...
One makes an assertion, and another accepts or rejects an assertion? No Tom, I know nothing of him or her but will rectify same and revert. I have onl...
An acceptance of Humes assertion that effects are not necessarily or even reasonably 'caused' precludes a subsequent reliance upon the 'scientific met...
We have somewhat covered this. I am here (my behavior) at the behest of my instinctual imperatives, the primary one being to 'belong'. I seek to recon...
Not drunk, but its not a bad idea. You write: First, a correlation between mind and brain has been established by the effects of brain injuries as wel...
No absolutely not. If Philosophy does not hurt then it is not Philosophy. All of the greatest philosophers without exception have been murdered by Phi...
That is easy. Like most difficult questions it has been under our noses all the time. The poets have being trying to tell the Philosopher for a thousa...
Shouldn't Religion be 'left'? Yes, left to history and to the indulgence of those who find thinking and Philosophy to be painful, and time consuming. ...
Agreed. But language is simply a vehicle for the instincts, a means to achieve a single supreme natural primordial objective. Nothing more nothing les...
Why must the Brain create consciousness? This is homocentric, neurocentric and egocentric. There is absolutely not one shred of evidence for this comm...
I'm not sure what all the fuss is about. It seems people wish to cling to their 'believies': God, Materialism/self-god/no-God Free will A combination ...
Perhaps the strangest issue with dualism is that it should be rebelled against with such enthusiasm. How do we arbitrate upon the question and arrive ...
Well....its more complex than a simple 'deeper issue' panacea. The obesity problem and the diabetes problems and the opiate problems for example are a...
I would consider 'war' as a very superficial issue that usually results from an ignorance of deeper ones. Americans might well be considered as being ...
How might any of these issues be mitigated or addressed via the insanity of 'locked and loaded' public idiocy? I doubt very much that the US governmen...
Gun ownership/promotion within a civilized, policed, democratic society (unless you are a farmer), is merely a reflection of the limited intellectual ...
I see.. your question is more practical than philosophical. Evolution is currently working on this. The practice of coin exchange is very primitive an...
What is the evidence that suggests that consciousness involves brain activity? Might it not be even MORE easily asserted that: Evidence suggests that ...
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