Devans99

We are social animals and we depend on each other to succeed. Division of labour etc... So we have an inbuilt interest in caring for each other. I bel...

I believe you are correct; our minds seem to link existing concepts and map concepts across domains rather than creating new concepts. I tried to thin...

If time did not have a start then an actual infinity of time has passed so far which is impossible. So it seems time has a start. Something must of ca...

I'm a materialist so I'm expecting any God to be material. Where did the matter come from: 1. In the beginning, there was God and some stuff and he ma...

Because 'Something' is so non-Occam's razor; the simplest model is 'Nothing' and with that model, nothing requires explanation. The fact that there is...

If you put yourself in God's shoes for a moment, what would be the ideal design for the universe? Having here plus heaven plus hell is not very Occam'...

Speed of light speed limit law (speed = distance / TIME) applies to everything in the universe so I think we can define time as a fundamental part of ...

I don’t think time and change are the same; I think time enables change. Maybe there is some other way to enable change too? Photons are ‘timeless’ pa...

You can assume other people are real which helps. Starting with 'I think therefore I am', if you treat self as just the conscious train of thought of ...

- They used to be called your right hand and wrong hand. - Then it was changed to your right hand and left hand. - Remember that right is what is righ...

Animals are just like us, they having feelings, some are even more intelligent than us (whales, dolphins). So when God says 'Thou shall not kill' he p...

I think protection against your own government is the only valid reason for owning a weapon. Could you not have a law that its OK to stockpile arms bu...

OK, those things give you pleasure then. So pleasure is a super category of these types of motivations

These are my opinions.

A paradox is indicative that you have an underlying logic error. In the case of Cantor's paradox, Galileo's paradox, Hilbert's hotel, the Measure Prob...

Thats all a pipe dream. Infinite sets do not exist. Take the natural numbers; it has no end {1, 2, 3, 4, ... }. So it's not completely defined; IE IT ...

There is a logical problem with something you can add to and not change. Nothing in the real world behaves like that. Cantor and co associated the spi...

I read some of it; some people have a lot invested in infinity. They are defending the indefensible in my opinion. The axiom of infinity is the root c...

Potential infinity (as in calculus's limit concept) is a great tool. Actual infinity (as in set theory's transfinite nonsense) is not a useful tool; i...

I'm not sure I agree with the sentiment. I've always felt that concepts link to other concepts in the mind and lead to new ideas. Cross domain fertili...

Don't you see how mad infinity is? It's larger than any possible thing. Yet we require it to expand; implying it was not larger than any possible thin...

The universe is finite: - The universe is expanding so it cannot be infinite in space else there would be nowhere to expand to - The universe started ...

But to be a normally functioning universe, a speed limit is required. Else it's possible to accelerate objects to infinite velocity and thus straight ...

Time is fundamental to the universe. The speed of light speed limit (speed = distance / TIME) is obeyed by every particle in the universe and exists i...

I believe in cause and effect so I think there is something in the prime mover. I like probability and I calculate the likelihood of a creator of the ...

I am assuming presentism in my premises and then disproving it. For example: Imagine an eternal being; he would have no start so could never exist. Be...

What contradictions?

You can't completely remove time; there is 'something' there, whether you call it time or not, that allows movement and supports cause and effect. I w...

I disagree. Would a moment exist if the moment before it was removed? Surely not. In fact all moments after the moment removed are undefined/cannot ex...

If you treat self as just the conscious train of thought of your mind, you can say 'you think, therefore you are' as when you are in a conversation, i...

So are you given over to satisfying short term impulses, rather than long term planning (my definition of evil)? Perhaps you could describe what makes...

Yes, but what is it obfuscating? Why would an Irish hero be stuck in an afterlife with murderers sowing a shroud and singing with a bird like voice? C...

But what are the motivations of humans/animals? They seek physical/emotional pleasure and shun physical/emotional pain. There are no other motives. We...

We pay a price for beauty; it's a constant battle against the 2nd law of thermodynamics keeping stuff clean and tidy. I'm a bit lazy around the house;...

Jesus said much the same. It's such a simple rule but if everyone in society followed it, the world would be a much happier place.

I'm including emotional pain and pleasure in my definition of good and evil. How do we judge if an action is good or evil? It has to be its impact on ...

I take the point that obfuscation is OK for poetry. Elsewhere though information is the live blood of human progress. Its free, unpolluted flow is vit...

The value of a piece of information in part relates to the % of the population who can understand that piece of information. We should strive for Occa...

Capitalism is very short term focused at the moment. All about making a quick buck and with little thought for the long term. But long term > short te...

Something is right or good if net pleasure is positive: net pleasure = pleasure - pain Or wrong/bad if net pleasure is negative (same calculation obvi...

Moral good/bad is about whether we inflict emotional or physical pain on ourselves and each other. So morality is fundamentally about pleasure/pain.

Humans are quite similar in most respects and the pain/pleasure experienced by the individual can be summed to give the corresponding pain/pleasure fo...

You would certainly not call a painful injury good so by process of elimination it must be evil? Nazi's were punished for what they did so it was net ...

Good is pleasure > pain for individual and groups. Evil is pleasure < pain for individual and groups. I see nothing arbitrary about the above definiti...

IE you can't demonstrate any circularity.

Explain what is circular...

You cannot read.

I think another area the free market fails us is that it gives us what we want rather than what we need. The confection and tobacco industries are exa...

I look forward to an age where machines do all the dull work and we are employed 3 days a week in interesting and creative arts and crafts roles. Some...

The free market is stunningly wasteful. For example, there are about 200 UK insurance companies. Life insurance is pretty much the same whoever you bu...