OK. There is to be no discussion. So why're you wasting time posting here? You should be out there in the world, implementing your plans. The world is...
As it happens, I'm not fine with objective morality existing, but the main point is the end of your sentence. When it comes to being objective about t...
"People" might do this, but I would choose not to. That may be because I'm autistic, but it may also be because I don't like to knowingly tell lies, e...
Then why are you 'telling, not asking', as you say? :chin: You are not open to comments that don't support your preferred course. You are not open to ...
Nothing. This is a discussion forum. I'm not out to convert anyone to a radical course. This topic asks how to save the world, and I (and others) have...
I note just one last time: no-one has suggested killing. Except you. The human race could be got rid of, if that is our aim, by simply preventing us b...
Not in my view it ain't. :wink: Solipsism is one of the many viewpoints that could glory (?) in the label "subjective", but it doesn't work the other ...
You'd argue against it .. by pointing out that, while it's actually true, and you aren't and can't argue against it, it's all our fault for not treati...
I'm neither telling nor asking you to do anything at all. Why do you think I am? :chin: I especially didn't tell you that you are not worthy of existe...
Talking with anyone about anything is a social activity. So philosophy, when it is discussed with others, is one too. The argument that social skills ...
There's a fair amount of unravelling to do here. This topic asks "How to save the world?". The question that sits just before that one is: WHY does th...
Well seven or eight thousand million of us does seem like too many, don't you think? As the rest of the world - and the remains of its living populati...
That, or fewer people? :chin: If there were no humans none of the issues we're discussing would have become problematic, would they? So focus clearly ...
Why do we - particularly the atheists among us - continue to challenge God and religion by bringing them into a scientific/objective world? God and re...
If your plan is based on "more is inevitable", it isn't a viable plan. We live in an environment with limited and dwindling resources. More is not an ...
We are on a helter-skelter. Jake is concerned about the pit filled with sharpened stakes that we reach when we get to the bottom, and you are observin...
Then humans will be extinct within a century or so. :cry: Planetary resources are dwindling. Less is inevitable! You can't have more (say) fresh water...
Yes. Fuzzy logic was, as I understand it, a means of programming a more flexible arrangement than two-valued logic, using what is available, which is ...
Yes, that's a good one. :smile: And, just for clarity, that puts me in a Church, which I find a little uncomfortable. I could go with a druid grove, i...
It's a very important argument, but it's a very difficult one to address. You choose to see it as humans continuing to dominate and use our ecosystem ...
No, it's not-belief - or non-belief - in the existence of God. Derail here - sorry! :yikes: - but the difference is important. Not being persuaded of ...
He was? There have been many mass starvation events in my lifetime, although none of them took place in my own country. <relief> Scarcity of food and ...
A good 'mission statement', provided we are not relying only on hope. :chin: If we hope, but carry on as we have been, well, nothing will change, and ...
"Experience" is one of those annoying terms we use to mean different but related things. If I witness an event, the event itself can be described as m...
I thought there was such an argument, but (having just tried to describe it), I find I was mistaken. :yikes: The solipsist argument cannot be refuted ...
That you did exist, as opposed to never having existed. If you did exist, you left a mark, an effect, on the world. You left the world in a different ...
I am understanding these 'subjectivities' as human experiences, or interactions with the world we live in. "Subject" seems to be used in the sense tha...
Of Objectivity: So when I ask you "Am I a brain in a vat?", hoping to take advantage of your apparent access to Objective Reality, you're going to ......
Fuzzy logic simply introduces grey to an otherwise black-and-white scenario. It is implemented using "classical" (Boolean) logic, because that's what ...
We can put it even more simply than that. We create the theories, then test how well they predict the future behaviour of (some aspect of) reality*. T...
Sorry, this doesn't answer your question. You asked "why?", but I don't think there's an answer to that. If there is, I don't know it, and can't imagi...
Because "some theories about reality" are "better than others"? Don't forget reality is the reference; we just try to curve-fit our data and our theor...
An analogy is only that. I think you read more into it than an analogy can usefully support. As for brain-in-a-vat, the most important point in consid...
Robert Anton Wilson ( a prize loony, but a thinker nonetheless) describes in his book "Quantum psychology" how the effect can chronologically precede ...
As @apokrisis has said, the ball effectively vibrates, as its internal molecules move about (Unless the experiment takes place at absolute zero), so i...
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