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Contact the one who sold you the model railroad is the obvious choice. But consider; are you wealthy enough that you can have a good life without the ...
August 26, 2018 at 13:56
If talking about physical brain damage, then yes. But it's hard to not use the brain to such a level that your IQ drops so low that you almost simulat...
August 26, 2018 at 13:36
Our sense of experience of being a certain gender is based on how we view societies definition of the genders. If we feel that we are woman trapped in...
August 26, 2018 at 13:26
Because it adheres to simple solutions for complex questions, while philosophy use complex solutions to simple questions, not by will, but by necessit...
August 26, 2018 at 13:04
Does measured intelligence predict behaviour, abilities at certain tasks and how well someone function under certain set of parameters? Yes, numerous ...
August 26, 2018 at 12:45
Since the bible has been revised many times, even in it's entirety, as well as changed according to the norms of the times in which it was changed, it...
August 15, 2018 at 11:52
It's an internal negation of subjectivity for the individual, but an objective fact filtered through human perception demands more observers than one ...
August 15, 2018 at 07:41
Sure, that's why we use logical thinking, deduction / induction and proper argumentation in order to reach conclusions that aren't influenced by our e...
August 14, 2018 at 22:58
Probably. We also don't know how much of the bible that was meant as stories to deliver a message, rather than accounts of something real. With thousa...
August 14, 2018 at 22:55
Hehehe, yup, science have made metaphysics kinda irrelevant. We can use it for things that's still hard to prove, with proper logical arguments, but I...
August 14, 2018 at 22:39
For me you can't be objective only through a collective, since the collective can be just as corrupted as the subjective. Even more so, the collective...
August 14, 2018 at 22:26
Based on what language define it as. If there aren't clear basic definitions of the language we use, it becomes impossible to communicate or have a di...
August 14, 2018 at 09:20
Not at all :) I think I just feel the need for two levels of the word objective. I.e Absolute objectivity is not dependent on human perception, it exi...
August 14, 2018 at 07:36
The first section (the one you quote) was about the previous poster, not you. The later sections adressed NDEs, you clearly skipped that part and inst...
August 14, 2018 at 06:16
I need time to go through the entire document, but I initially don't know why morality is mixed into the idea of immortality. A baseline morality seem...
August 13, 2018 at 23:10
It's fine, I have no intentions with continuing a philosophical argument with someone who can't provide a proper argument. As I said, this is a philos...
August 13, 2018 at 22:04
There's nothing wrong with my definitions. You assume energy in terms of a spiritual definition. Find me any evidence that suggest that consciousness ...
August 13, 2018 at 17:10
This statement is a still a fallacy. Energy and matter is what makes up the physical universe, life and consciousness are not energy, they are product...
August 13, 2018 at 15:00
None of this has any foundation in science. The reason we get consciousness is a combination of pre-programmed genetics that form the starting point o...
August 13, 2018 at 09:10
But that doesn't equal that there is. It just points out that there's no one able to witness it. However, if you use all the data, research and do an ...
August 12, 2018 at 23:36
I'm adressing these arguments then. If the process of dying is the same for everyone, does the testimonials not just describe that same process in it'...
August 12, 2018 at 14:44
Unfortunetely no, since I wanted to add my input on the matter when I saw it, so I only read the original post for this. If what I've been writing abo...
August 12, 2018 at 14:21
How is it viewpoints if each individual use deductive reasoning? If a thousand people use deductive reasoning to reach the same conclusion, that shoul...
August 12, 2018 at 14:06
Ok with an afterlife or ok without an afterlife? I feel comfort in there not being an afterlife, since I accept it and live life by it. To live life a...
August 12, 2018 at 11:15
There's no solid evidence for consciousness surviving death. There's no solid evidence that it doesn't. However, given what we know about everything e...
August 12, 2018 at 10:49
Isn't this primarily based on languages that hold vastly different structures from each other and grammar that is different? I mean, I'm from Sweden s...
August 12, 2018 at 10:01
I don't mind the semantic discussion, because I think it essentially is about semantics. Without a definition baseline for the word, how do we discuss...
August 11, 2018 at 18:16
I was defining what the most objective knowledge we can have is. I.e however the individual work, the objective truth is always the one defined by the...
August 11, 2018 at 18:06
True that all could be wrong, that's why I described it as a rising objectivity with more people in that group. For example, if a field of science com...
August 11, 2018 at 17:13
Quality is the condition in which a certain object's function and aesthetic features exceed other objects in the same category according to similar fe...
August 11, 2018 at 13:14
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This is essentially Nietzsche. Most interpret that he concluded that God is dead and then proposed a nihilistic way of life, which is far from the tru...
August 11, 2018 at 12:47
"The earth is warming, as it has done since the last ice age. This is objective. Where objectivity gets lost is blaming this on humans." - I feel that...
August 11, 2018 at 12:13
An object existing objectively means it exists without an observers existence. To be objective means putting forth an argument or statement that is fo...
August 11, 2018 at 11:15