Are we looking to describe and discuss creativity, in humans, and maybe other animals? You mean 'art'? Surely not, as art has been around for many cen...
I think it's more than just language. I think it's our recent habit of using science as the one and only tool for examining the world. To use science ...
So knowledge of X is subjective; personal; believer-dependent. OK, I can go with that. After all, X (whatever it is) exists externally and mind-indepe...
This bothers me. To say something is likely indicates that we have some idea of how likely it is. I.e. what the probability is of it happening or bein...
Yes, so it is, so that's what we do. :smile: But the point here is to wonder if our axioms (assumptions) are valid, and what would it be like if they ...
Why "must" every event have an explanation? I can't argue that this is false, as there is no justification for that position (that I know of). But I a...
I think there are several answers to these questions. Philosophy often considers some of the most basic, and most important (to us) issues. Often ther...
I got "Neutral Good Human Druid (7th Level)", which surprised me. I sort of expected 'true neutral', as D&D druids are (or so I thought). Fun, though....
I retired. It took me my whole life to prepare, and now I can follow my own schedule, or none, as I choose. But in the world we've created, that's nor...
I am actually autistic, and flippant uses of the term, as above, are not helpful. Understanding autism is hard enough without people saying (for examp...
Yes, that's a worthwhile distinction to make, I think. So society's laws reflect its ethics, but morality still remains a personal thing. And I suppos...
So you think that the falling tree makes no noise, if there is no observer present to hear it? That seems to be the argument you're presenting. Is kno...
It was intended to describe an event which has no preceding event that caused it to happen. Must every event have a cause then, do you think? Are you ...
Sorry, maybe I'm overthinking this. Do you mean to say that, because science does everything in its power to circumvent or destroy the human perspecti...
I'm sorry, I don't even know where to start with stuff like this. And I contend that it is, and that it cannot help but do so. By aspiring to 'imparti...
Yes, there is such a belief, and I believe it to be mistaken and wrong-headed. We humans have beliefs and opinions. Our perspective requires, and is b...
No, please don't overlay your religious beliefs onto mine. I worship God by the name Gaia. She is not a creator-God, and I do not acknowledge the Chri...
Yes, I agree they are examples of the belief you describe. But my conception of bias and partiality is a lot broader than this. The links you offer de...
Yes, the message/experience thing is probably a semantic misunderstanding. As for the rest of what you say, it's what I was trying to say, but better ...
I can't be bothered delving through so much detail, but I offer this: if God is all/everything in so many ways (omni-this, omni-that), maybe God is bo...
You stated that mitochondria are "no living" because they cannot exist outside of the conditions they need to survive. I responded by suggesting that ...
The reason I define art as I do is that all other definitions I've come across have the same fundamental failing. They end up concluding that only mem...
That's good, because I didn't answer that particular question. :up: Then I have nothing more to offer on this subject that you will be able to hear. :...
And if this unlikely scenario actually took place, would these beings exist in harmony, or might they behave in a less than harmonious manner, at leas...
I wasn't offering an analogy, but only applying your ideas elsewhere to see if they work there. Then we humans are not alive, by your reckoning, for w...
A message? :wink: That depends. Are you asking in relation to me? To you? To someone else? To all humans? The answer might be different in each case. ...
And there's another way they're relative, equally specific. Good requires the existence of evil for its very meaning. You can't have yin alone; it is ...
No, it's an application of your reasoning to a slightly different circumstance. That something cannot be considered alive if it can't live outside the...
Human bias and partiality is not limited to the limitations of our senses. Bias also stems from our opinions and beliefs. And what else is the 'human ...
No, I don't. We can (sometimes) act thusly. But when we do, we necessarily set aside our 'human perspective', which is the biased and partial way we (...
So omnipotence and omniscience have nothing to do with responsibility or duty: that comes from benevolence, from God being 'good'. Hmm, OK. So if God ...
No, we can't, or maybe shouldn't, reject the human perspective, but science does, and it does so actively and intentionally. It is not possible to red...
It's certainly produced, intentionally. One might argue that views of nature (say) are art, but I think this is a refutation of that: art is intention...
Art is not a product, I don't think. work of art can perhaps be seen as a product, but not usefully or meaningfully (IMO).] Art is a form of communica...
Language is the one and only tool we currently have that will allow us to communicate. Without communication, and there can be no discussion. This is ...
Science has always been grounded in observation, I admit. But "the human perspective"? Science explicitly rejects the human perspective, and aims to o...
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