RegularGuy

Trial and error. If you were somehow “punished” by your peers for posting on this forum, you might decide next time that it is better to go to the sto...

How would one know when one has reached it? And how does one sustain living in Truth once it’s reached? It seems to me it takes constant vigilance.

It occurred to me that perhaps I misunderstood you. Are you saying that some people believe they are “saved” when they only possess a portion of Truth...

If I am correct, then one of your objections to determinism was that there would be no evolutionary advantage to perceiving competing options or choic...

Thanks! Will do

I have to see a therapist starting in the near future because I am using the Department of Vocational Rehabilitation to get training to return to work...

My psychiatrist says my filter, or my left prefrontal cortex, is broken or damaged (I have schizoaffective disorder), so do I have free will? (He wasn...

My last hypothesis claimed that consciousness wasn’t the primary substance but rather a substance on par with matter. How it interacts with matter is ...

I agree. You can be saved but still at times deviate from the Light of Truth. The material world’s temptations sometimes catch us off guard. Thanks fo...

I really enjoyed your OP. I’ll have to give it more thought. Thanks for sharing!

That’s very interesting.

You are entitled to your beliefs as am I. I am open to a free will argument, but so far I haven’t been satisfied by any.

Look up “probability calculation,” then tell me what’s more likely, viz. that I’m the Flying Sphagetti Monster or you’re incorrigible.

I don’t think you’re serious. I think you’re trolling us

It’s as likely that I am the flying spaghetti monster as that drinking clean water will kill you.

“Skepticism...any way around it?!” The only way around it is to get a Chapter 51 on the Skeptic.

No I’m serious. I really believe that you are sick

I suggest you seek out a psychiatrist immediately. You could be a harm to yourself or others.

How would a brain in a vat hurt anyone or someone being tricked by an evil demon hurt anyone?

That’s ridiculous nonsense, and I don’t have time for this nonsense. How would a brain in a vat hurt anyone?

It is only debatable if you are a global skeptic. I don’t know why it would make you anxious, and I don’t know how to convince someone that they’re no...

So what? How does that make you anxious?

I could be mistaken about a particular belief, but I like to believe that most of my beliefs are consistent and coherent with the rest of my beliefs. ...

Epistemology Is the philosophical study of knowledge

That goes against all epistemic theory.

So what? How does that affect the way I live?

So what? How does that affect my life or the way I live?

But I would never believe that I missed the show as I could tell you what the show is about. How does it affect my life or how does it make my life an...

So you are a global skeptic. Why would you want to live your life that way, and furthermore, how does that affect the way you live?

It’s on page 2 of “all discussions”

It’s an original post, probably on Page 2 or three of the “all discussions”

Let me put it this way: reductionism or supervenience Could still be true, and we could never prove it at the same time

Why can’t you just read it? It’s on this forum for all to see

I wrote about this in the thread called, on solipsism and knowledge.

Are you trolling us? Certainty is not required for knowledge

Let me just say this: whether or not reductionism or supervenience Is true is one thing, and whether or not they can be known is another thing.The two...

I will try to explain further later what I am thinking after I fire up the computer. I’m trying to type on the phone right now and it takes a long tim...

Whether or not supervenience or reductionism is true is a metaphysical issue. Whether or not supervenience or reductionism is able to be known or disc...

As someone, I think it was macrosoft, said in another thread, we act as if we both have and do not have free will. It doesn’t matter whether or not su...

It was something I wrote a couple of years after school.

We studied Augustine when I went to Loyola University Chicago for a semester. Never got to Saint Aquinas. I probably will get around to him, but I wan...

I guess you could call me a Protestant, but I do admire the Catholics for their devotion to tradition.

I don't know what kind of philosopher I am. I believe in God. I believe in Jesus' precepts, but I don't think you can "prove" God's existence through ...

If I had a frontal lobotomy (which I'm considering after this exchange), then I couldn't speak coherently no matter how much I willed it. So, is not t...

I'm saying it's necessary AND sufficient. Not just sufficient. Where am I going wrong? I'm confused.

"As long as I continue to will my goal, I continue to work toward that goal." Of course! This is a tautology. It's like saying, "As long as I continue...

If you really have free will, then refrain from posting further. EDIT :Or, give up philosophy altogether. Or do you feel compelled to be a philosopher...

All natural phenomena have sufficient and necessary causes. Choices are natural phenomena. Choices have sufficient and necessary causes. Are we aware ...

Then we choose. But what is your evidence that it isn't pre-determined? How do you reconcile free will with everything that we know about the natural ...

And this isn't unfalsifiable? Edit: I believe it is a better explanatory model to say that the limbic system drives our decisions, then to simply asse...