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I didn’t say that, you may or you may not be. If you think it’s the Truth that I will experience pain by stubbing my toe then you’re not a relativist....

That’s the thing, scientists who study the motion of tiny particles are not experts on the nature of existence, they haven’t shown that we are solely ...

Yes, and many scientists do that, like Dawkins, so many scientists are part of the problem... I explicitly said that the problem is not with the endea...

Indeed, but we aren’t going to say they truly are objective simply because they believe they are, if they don’t realize the subjectivity involved in t...

Yes, but there are plenty of positions within “believe in objective reality”, depending on what one believes can be known or is known about that reali...

But precisely there is, once you’re woke you see why it is important to remain woke, why it is important to keep preserving what you’ve been preservin...

Yes, however the methods of the “objective sciences” fundamentally involve only first-person observations, and it takes first-person commitment or ins...

Can we at least agree on this: if we are part of an objective reality, then our experiences are part of the objective reality, but there are things th...

Is there evidence that they didn't mean it literally? See it that way: if as long as you haven't reached Nirvana you keep getting reincarnated when yo...

Same with the law, those who create the laws force them on those who don't want to follow them. Yes if you remove laws some will try to take power by ...

Nirvana is defined for instance as "a transcendent state in which there is neither suffering, desire, nor sense of self, and the subject is released f...

You can call it extreme suffering if you like, but it can take years or decades before someone decides to kill themselves because of accumulated suffe...

It isn't clear whether viruses count as life. If their behavior is solely determined by laws then they do not try to kill us any more than an asteroid...

Here's how relativism is characterized: "There is no universal, objective truth according to relativism; rather each point of view has its own truth"....

Anarchy can turn into hell if everyone only thinks about themselves. If people care about one another because that's what they want and not because so...

Yes and then Nirvana would be that objective reality, if there is a "right" way, an objectively "true" way, there is something objective. I'm using "o...

I believe that there is an objective reality in Buddhism, considering for instance that they talk about following the "Noble Eightfold Path" which inv...

Suffering is what makes people kill themselves, is the reason why people seek medical treatment to relieve it, is the reason why antinatalists want pe...

Yes we all deserve happiness, that doesn't mean we can just do nothing and expect to have it. A child can be happy when his parents take good care of ...

Yep I think so too :up:

I'll give you another hint: it's possible to prove mathematically that in a deterministic system, if your 6-sided dice is perfectly symmetrical then e...

As far as I know no study has been done regarding the influence of relative velocity on the relative aging of twins. Regarding probabilities, we know ...

Yes it is more profound and complex than just saying "let's love one another", otherwise Jesus, Gandhi and Lennon wouldn't have been killed. The messa...

Again this is better suited for another thread as this is really far away from what the OP is about, so this will be my last post about that in this t...

Well the idea that "gravity stretches time" is based on assumptions, it's not something we observe directly. Any prediction is necessarily based on as...

To put the matter succinctly, imagine that at every moment during your trip the theory tells you that your twin is aging more slowly than you, yet whe...

But it's not that the two twins age differently that's necessarily unintuitive, it's that at every moment each twin is aging more quickly than the oth...

I meant intuitive as in particles can be seen as having a definite trajectory even when they aren't observed, as in one particle doesn't follow severa...

Sorry I missed your reply. Consider that on very small scales, when you try to measure a tiny thing (for instance by sending electrons or light toward...

:halo: Although I wouldn't say compassion and helping others reduces to a way to cope with life, instead you could see it as "love makes life worth li...

What justifies a positive ethics? When children and people love life. What makes people hate life? Lack of love. Love is that thing that when you don'...

I said I would make a thread on why there is no fundamental difference between science and pseudoscience (whereas Pigliucci promotes the opposite), an...

:up: But I think it’s also important to have a forum category where people can ask for help or advice about something. Sometimes people find themselve...

Okay I will create a thread then. It will be long because there are too many things to say, even though I focus on the most important points. If I mak...

Massimo Pigliucci is a strong proponent of the idea that there is a fundamental distinction between science and pseudoscience, and that this distincti...

That can be explained in an intuitive way though, without giving up an objective reality, when we take into account the fact that on small scales the ...

I have answered your questions, if you don't want to bother reading/understanding what I've explained at great length in order to help you understand,...

I know what you mean, for instance the best way I can describe psilocybin is that it allows one to see/imagine/understand things that one is not capab...

Indeed the experience is real, I would say all experiences are real. But to what extent is the experience an experience of something separate from us ...

What’s wrong with looking for a rational model of existence? The ideas I’m presenting offer an alternative to the materialist view that is itself meta...

I agree that brain activity is not the experience lived, but I do not see what your point is. You simply misunderstood what I said, “the spirit dissol...

Many people have had spiritual experiences, of existence beyond the material world, according to the information they have our existence doesn't stop ...

Nice, I will definitely ask him some questions about the demarcation between science and pseudoscience, as I don’t see any such demarcation as objecti...

What I meant to say is that being happy is the same as feeling happy, in case that was unclear, to me “being happy” refers to “feeling happy”. I don’t...

It’s the same old “non-existence is better than existence”, which is your own personal belief. It would be quite ironical if when your body dies you d...

If you assume that our whole existence is a consequence of laws we have zero control over then you are led to that conclusion. However consider that s...

I would say being happy is the same as feeling happy, whereas being good is not the same as feeling good, and feeling good is not the same as feeling ...

I said it’s possible in very specific cases, most of the time it isn’t. It seems you missed the part where I said that the rockets are constantly cont...

There is surely more than what we usually perceive. And the body is an appearance, not the underlying reality, brain activity is correlated to some ex...

There are things that make us want to act, and making that desire an action can be seen as actualizing a will. So the will can be seen as a desire, wh...