RegularGuy

How am I evangelizing? You haven't addressed anything I've said. Furthermore, what good counter-arguments?

And how is my position not supported by logic, reason, or Occam's razor? It certainly is not contradictory to science either.

I feel like my positions are well-supported and thoughtful. I have read hundreds and hundreds of books on philosophy, physics, biology, psychology, hi...

I take it to mean most preferable to someone, if not most preferable to the experts. What could "best" possibly mean?

I wasn't always this way. I just don't care as much as I once did. In fact, my giving-a-fuck factor has gone down exponentially in the last decade. :r...

I find it cannot be avoided in a philosophy forum, but one can still be civil. I'm not all the time, but one can. :wink:

haha! My wife complains about my laziness (which is due in large part to the psychoactive drugs I’m prescribed). Perhaps I should turn to cocaine to g...

But you have a preference for physicalism. Perhaps I’m not using “likelihood” in abductive inference the same way I would use “likelihood” in statisti...

That’s fair. It seems rational to me.

Then one cannot hold any beliefs such as belief about a lot of metaphysical or ontological things. What about your beliefs about physicalism?

What is it a matter of then? “Inference to the ‘best’ explanation.” What does “best” mean here?

How so or why not?

That’s a non answer.

Perhaps it’s nonsense. Perhaps not. One cannot have certain beliefs about certain things without abductive inference, which may just be a matter of pr...

When I use the term “better” as in it’s a “better explanation”, I suppose I am really saying that I prefer it. What else could I mean? Do you prefer t...

Yes. I was being lazy. I’m an extremely lazy person. God bless me.

Just Googled it with my iPhone. I’m not saying the alternative is necessarily false. I am saying that it is a better explanation that conscious life w...

My Google Home Hub gives the Divine Fallacy when I ask it that. Why not define it here for all of our amelioration?

Can you define that for me?

My point was that it is more likely that the physical world exists, and that a conscious mind that is working properly is more likely to perceive it u...

Could an artificial brain be conscious? Also, I am not claiming I know the nature of this “divine” consciousness of which I speak. Could it also be so...

True. I have a preference for a “divine” consciousness, just as others have a preference for no “divine” consciousness. I gave my reasons for my belie...

I would argue that even if such a model were given, it still couldn’t rule out some kind of guidance. I would still infer abductively that there is a ...

I suppose I am.

It seems that there is no mechanistic explanatory model for how conscious life formed.

Sure. I also infer inductively by analogy, but it is not something that ALSO doesn’t rely on an abductive inference that everything you experience is ...

Or that materialism is a better explanation than idealism? As you seem to.

What do you mean? Let me ask you this: how do you infer that other people are conscious other than that it is a better explanation than that solipsism...

It’s an abductive inference. Abduction necessarily deals with likelihood.

My understanding of the Divine Fallacy is that “supernatural” explanations are given to phenomena that one cannot imagine to be explained as natural. ...

I'm no longer interested in this discussion. I thought it had some potential, but it is quickly turning into something mundane, banal, commonplace, ho...

So what's your point exactly? Devans99 was saying that the origins of the universe are definitionally unnatural or supernatural.

That says more than what you are saying, but each religion further defines "God" according to their traditions.

Also, I don't define Her/Him.

Like I said, that's not a definition. That's like saying, "God is God," or "the Creator is the Creator." It says nothing about what it is. The teapot ...

That's like saying the Creator of the Universe is the Creator of the Universe. It doesn't tell us anything about "The Creator of the Universe". That's...

That's not defining "God". That's claiming there is a God. As for the natural vs. supernatural, I don't think he would agree with your definition of "...

For one, you seem to be strengthening his argument, rather than refuting it. You have failed to define "God". That strengthens what he was saying with...

I don't think you understood what @"I like sushi" was saying at all.

Well said. I tend to think that many Christians, for example, are afraid of disapproval from their fundamentalist pastors, reverends, and priests; so ...

I think a great many if not most religious people actually feel the same way I do. They just practice their religions to be closer to the divine witho...

Would most of these harms to the community be wiped out if certain illegal drugs were decriminalized? For example (and this is just an example, not so...

I will give what I think is compelling evidence for a divine consciousness. (1) Human beings and other animals are conscious and self-aware. (2) Human...

Substitute "consumerism" for "shopping" if that makes the argument more compelling.

(1) Shopping causes waste in the form of garbage and contributes to the destruction of the environment. (2) If we want a healthy environment, then sho...

My wife says she won’t stay with me if I don’t take my medications. I love her.

Well, for me personally, the legal drugs that my psychiatrist prescribes make me so lethargic, drained, drowsy, and lazy, that I cannot handle much re...

I thought this thread was supposed to be about the morality of illegal drug use. As long as one can handle one’s responsibilities, then I feel like il...

You, me, Dr. Israelstam, and the head psychiatrist at UW.

I’m talking about individuals. You’re talking about generalities.