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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...

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...

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...

But since both creation and destruction are a change, preservation and suppression prevent both creation and destruction. To preserve an object is to ...

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...

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...

“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 ...

This was addressed in the rest of the thread.

The point is matter has the creative power to give itself consciousness, purpose, feelings, thoughts. This is even more extraordinary than saying that...

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, ...

It is accurate. If everything is matter, matter configures itself, there is not something else configuring it. If everything is matter, 'you' are matt...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

But you can't calculate that expected value. Like the butterfly effect, it is possible that you do something apparently innocent, which eventually end...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

If there is no internal world, why don’t you see what other people think? They don’t really think? You’re a solipsist?

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, ...

With sufficiently accurate measurements and computing power you could. You could predict when and where there is going to be lightning (photons and el...

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 ...

Assume a universe initially devoid of consciousness, which behaves according to laws of motion. While being constrained by these laws, various parts o...

Take your favorite physical theory. It refers to fundamental physical entities and relate them through equations, which dictate how these entities mov...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

I would say the quest of the philosopher is to move towards understanding the whole, everything, to uncover connections that were previously unseen. A...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...