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I have a few problems with this statement. 1. Evolution, the process itself, isn't unguided. It's guided by natural selection. 2. Most of our informat...

we can flaunt solipsism all day and night, but the fact of the matter is that we're playing a game of perception, so we're figuring out its rules.

Oh so you agree? Perhaps I'm misunderstanding your point of view on the matter. Or I changed your mind!

Well, we can presume only because of the absolute tremendous amount of indicative evidence gained through science by using inductive reasoning.

Information cannot be destroyed. If, given we know in which way the brain interpreted information, then the physical representation can therefore be t...

I wouldn't necessarily assert that, but sure. I definitely disagree with this premise. You mean to tell me we cannot quantify the firing of neurons, o...

No, if it can't be measured using mathematics, then using mathematics to prove its existence isn't going to work. I get what you mean and I will retra...

@"TheMadFool" The fact that it can't be measured shows that it doesn't exist, not that it does. At this point, you've said there's no evidence for it ...

You're making an appeal to a false system then. My point is that you're using mathematics to prove a non-mathematical element is true. You're using th...

yes, that's the point of my comment. You must first decide if something is able to be quantified before quantifying it, which you did not do

One thing that's incredibly important for a high IQ is self reflection and understanding. It also helps if one is creative and intuitive. According to...

My apologies. No I'm a relativist, but then read what your definition of moral objectivism was. I totally am fine with coming up with a complete moral...

I was thinking about this for awhile, and let me know if this makes sense, but i believe a reason for there to be something rather than nothing is bec...

Any non-physical object is, in turn, non-quanitfiable, so it's impossible to use mathematics to describe a non quantifiable object, except maybe imagi...

I'm guessing this is sarcasm

Welp, I voted No instead of Yes because I just skimmed through what your definition of objectivism was.

Wow, someone's defensive.

Absolutely not, but it is telling of a cognitive dissonant mindset, which you may be able to jump on before it's too late.

That's entirely counterintuitive to helping start a legitimate discussion within the context of religion.

I think the whole discussion has a sort of annoying point. First, if you'd like to know an atheist's personal position on their belief in god, then as...

I'm not quite sure what the := means. Is it just equals?

Saying something's equal to me would be considered nesting right?

Doesn't the equality cause for an infinite regress in variables or am I not understanding? You could easily say: (P1>P2) = ((P1>P2)>P2) and furthermor...

I'm still not convinced of the quantum physics part, I'd like to know if you have the study linked to it so I can reevaluate determinism.

I don't believe in chance. I believe in a deterministic world, where every action was caused by something else.

So you believe in chance?

I sincerely think it's one of the only ways to do so. It's almost like we have no other choice. I actually have a hypothesis that logic and existence ...

No, I'd say comprehension is almost totally set in stone. Think of it as IQ. It's the ability to understand things at a certain level, it's not what y...

What you don't know or what you can't know? Because that is what I'm arguing, what we cannot know.

Actually, I'd rather say that nonexistence is actually moreso arbitrary nonexistence, not real nonexistence.

Two libraries of things: Things we comprehend Possibilities: It does exist (evidence supports) It doesn't exist (lack of evidence, evidence to the con...

Well, then it must be. And since we can comprehend it, it is possible to exist.

What evidence do we have to point to that? We must therefore only conclude what is evidentiary, and the way to find that is to comprehend it! It must ...

I've taken some time to think. So what I've found, and am here to state with certainty, that existence is therefore only provable insofar as human com...

Well, we have to make a few assumptions first. I don't know for a fact that humans even experience anything anyways, all I know is that I do. The only...

well I'm not so sure that concludes anything. If a non-human observed something out of our comprehension, there's absolutely no way of telling and we ...

What else is there other than our experience and observation of what is and isn't?

If we define the universe as everything humanly capable to comprehend, and the AI is able to learn and learns everything, possibly more than human com...

There is at some point where truth can be defined as an object. Since the universe exists and theoretically AI could operate on the entire universe's ...

However, from our viewpoint it would appear that objectivity exists outside of ourselves.

I've got it. Truth is existence, and existence is everything humanity as a whole can comprehend, so therefore the smarter we are, the more truth there...

It is implied therefore. Since there are rules of the universe, and since those are the rules of which the entirety of the mind is confined to, then t...

Right, and there's some merit to that. However, the use of government is entirely meant for keeping what the universe has granted to us, and finding c...

The reason censorship as a concept is belittling is because it restricts the mind to a subset of rules. The rules of the universe are already enough t...

I absolutely agree with ovdtogt. Truth is only true when certain set rules are in play, whatever those rules may be. The overarching set of rules woul...

Truth, to me, can be boiled down to two categories. The metaphorical truth, that is the abstraction of truth in pursuit for pragmatism, and the object...

I am in total agreement. The anti color blindness routine comes from nowhere.

I'm only halfway into what you typed and I've gotta say, thank you so much for taking the time out of your day to criticize what I've done. And it's g...

If you were a little confused about evolution and couldn't 100% tell if you agreed on it or not, would you want a quick and easy guide to access it? T...

Perhaps you have little interaction as well, since you seemingly know that all interactions with skeptics will end up sour. Skeptics who are reasonabl...