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Law and Will

December 03, 2020 at 12:39 42 comments General Philosophy

Truth exists

October 30, 2020 at 08:21 42 comments General Philosophy

Absolute truth

December 05, 2019 at 12:43 110 comments General Philosophy

On Suffering

November 28, 2019 at 12:05 38 comments General Philosophy

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Thanks for your point of view. Indeed as you say practicing philosophy can make one better at imagination and communication. Which then can make it ea...
September 15, 2021 at 11:37
As they say the Truth will set you free :) So you’re chasing after more freedom? Would you agree that it’s connected with the awareness of Truth, of R...
September 15, 2021 at 11:22
A conspiracy theory is a theory that there is a conspiracy. A conspiracy is a group of people secretly agreeing to do something wrong. A theory can be...
December 29, 2020 at 18:37
But since both creation and destruction are a change, preservation and suppression prevent both creation and destruction. To preserve an object is to ...
December 14, 2020 at 16:46
Thanks for the apology. Yet as you noted, destruction has a negative connotation, and it isn’t trivial to show that this negative connotation is unwar...
December 14, 2020 at 16:13
Have you seen an irrational number? You’ve seen a symbol for it, you have thought about the idea of it, but you haven’t seen one, with its whole infin...
December 14, 2020 at 15:42
“Nothing” cannot be described, because even the thought of nothing isn’t nothing. We can only attempt to imperfectly describe all that it is not, all ...
December 14, 2020 at 14:40
This was addressed in the rest of the thread.
December 09, 2020 at 20:56
The point is matter has the creative power to give itself consciousness, purpose, feelings, thoughts. This is even more extraordinary than saying that...
December 09, 2020 at 20:36
Sure. But if the 'way things go' is ultimately that the creator can create whatever he wants, then the creator isn't constrained by any external law, ...
December 09, 2020 at 20:25
It is accurate. If everything is matter, matter configures itself, there is not something else configuring it. If everything is matter, 'you' are matt...
December 09, 2020 at 19:48
You say creation and destruction are human terms given to what we perceive as two different phenomena. But change is also a human term given to what w...
December 09, 2020 at 19:37
But we know for a fact that any decision we make risks harming others, whether they are alive now or will be in the future. And we can't foresee all t...
December 09, 2020 at 18:45
Just think ... if matter is all there is, where do these properties come from ... they come from matter. You agree with this at least, right? Now, we ...
December 09, 2020 at 18:05
You're assuming ... Here it is legitimate, because we're remaining within the realm of everything that exists, where matter is taken to be the fundame...
December 09, 2020 at 14:57
But you can't calculate that expected value. Like the butterfly effect, it is possible that you do something apparently innocent, which eventually end...
December 09, 2020 at 14:30
Your very existence risks hurting people, yet you're taking that risk all the time. An antinatalist risks hurting a child he adopts. So why take that ...
December 09, 2020 at 14:16
One important thing to point out is that suffering isn't entirely negative. While we experience it it is negative. But suffering can lead to positive ...
December 09, 2020 at 14:10
That comment highlights in itself one of the great problems of science, or rather with the perception of science. The idea that if we listen to what t...
December 09, 2020 at 13:23
You're arbitrarily assuming natural laws weren't created. To say that natural laws "just are" is to assume that they are there for no reason at all, t...
December 09, 2020 at 12:58
Why do you assume change would exist but not creation or destruction? Why do you give a special status to change? Oh, so when a species goes extinct i...
December 09, 2020 at 12:31
I don't agree with this. Asking why here simply means what makes matter behave the way it does. Just like we could ask what makes tree branches move t...
December 09, 2020 at 12:10
In my view consciousness is fundamental to the universe for many reasons, so I don't believe there is change without consciousness. But if you assume ...
December 08, 2020 at 20:19
Conservation laws follow from the assumption that the laws of physics do not change, which isn’t a discovery but an assumption. Also you’re implicitly...
December 08, 2020 at 19:20
That’s all thinking is to you? To you there is no fundamental difference between the way a human thinks and how a computer operates? Why do some ‘shiv...
December 08, 2020 at 15:21
Yes it has a negative connotation, but it shouldn’t. It is not destruction itself that is negative, it is the destruction of something which may or ma...
December 08, 2020 at 14:26
Why would it be legitimate to ask how matter behaves, but not why it behaves the way it does? There is an answer to it. There is just a refusal to acc...
December 08, 2020 at 11:49
Here is the interesting thing : let’s say you could step outside of this universe into other universes in which matter behaves differently. Let’s say ...
December 08, 2020 at 08:53
If there is no internal world, why don’t you see what other people think? They don’t really think? You’re a solipsist?
December 08, 2020 at 06:31
Yes. One problem is that our physical senses do not perceive what is conscious and what is not. We don’t perceive other human beings to be conscious, ...
December 07, 2020 at 13:54
With sufficiently accurate measurements and computing power you could. You could predict when and where there is going to be lightning (photons and el...
December 06, 2020 at 18:34
You assume. You don’t know that. You can’t explain how consciousness can arise from matter. I can explain how it cannot. A physical theory boils down ...
December 04, 2020 at 12:13
Assume a universe initially devoid of consciousness, which behaves according to laws of motion. While being constrained by these laws, various parts o...
December 03, 2020 at 16:11
Take your favorite physical theory. It refers to fundamental physical entities and relate them through equations, which dictate how these entities mov...
December 03, 2020 at 11:01
Because you don’t like to pursue truth? The point is that destruction isn’t inherently bad, contrary to popular belief. Maybe you need to overcome tha...
December 03, 2020 at 10:53
Did you write it down on a blank sheet of paper? Then you destroyed the blankness of that sheet. Did you visualize it in your mind? Then you destroyed...
December 02, 2020 at 22:20
I would say one of the more fundamental dualities is that of attraction and repulsion. If all things attracted one another everything would be reduced...
December 02, 2020 at 12:50
Bad things will happen ... good things will happen too. If more good things happen than bad things, or if the good things more than compensate for the...
November 12, 2020 at 17:48
Maybe this can help a little bit ... You will get to experience your future “you”, so if you want your future “you” to be a pleasant experience try yo...
November 09, 2020 at 17:54
What you experience you experience now. If you assume that what you experience is an image of what was in the past, you're still experiencing that ima...
November 09, 2020 at 10:12
I would say your experience consists only of some present. Your memories and expectations are experienced in the present, and they don't necessarily r...
November 04, 2020 at 15:23
I would say the quest of the philosopher is to move towards understanding the whole, everything, to uncover connections that were previously unseen. A...
November 04, 2020 at 10:29
From our point of view we only experience a portion of the present, which is itself an extremely small part of all that it, was and ever will be. I wo...
November 04, 2020 at 10:24
Well I thought I was showing the statement “nothing is eternal” is self-contradictory and thus false, but I think I realized my mistake. If nothing is...
November 03, 2020 at 07:13
The point is there cannot be nothing that is eternal. If there was nothing eternal, then “nothing is eternal” would be eternal, and “nothing is eterna...
November 02, 2020 at 23:00
I’m gonna phrase it differently Let’s assume nothing is eternal. Either this is true for a limited time, or for all eternity. If the assumption is tru...
November 01, 2020 at 13:12
Why do you make this distinction? There is an island to the south of Australia. There is a large deposit of ice. 4 is a solution to 2+2=x. The island ...
November 01, 2020 at 09:18
Do you see the difference between thinking the Sun is going to rise tomorrow, and behaving as if the Sun is going to rise tomorrow? What is it that ma...
March 16, 2020 at 14:50
Belief is much more than that, belief changes how you see the world, how you feel, how you act and react, it is more than a thought. It would rather b...
March 15, 2020 at 08:13
If you were to encounter someone in mental distress because they are drowning and they don't know how to swim, would you give them a hand, or would yo...
March 11, 2020 at 14:20