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The Existentialist

['Member']Joined: November 17, 2018 at 18:04Last active: November 22, 2018 at 19:07None discussions4 comments
Location: Illinois

Bio

I am a filmmaker by trade though I've studied Philosophy zealously since my early teenage years. Although I gravitate towards Existentialism, I also like to discuss everything from quantum loop gravity to what Montaigne would think of current political discourse. My current goal is to establish some sort of theoretical groundwork that can explain the experience of time and how something can come from nothing (assuming either question is valid and the universe is not in-itself static and the result of a Boltzmann brain style hypothesis).

Favourite Philosopher

Schopenhauer, Kant, Aristotle, Nietzsche, Rorty, Heidegger, Camus, Sartre, Beauvoir, usw...

Favourite Quotations

"Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one."

Marcus Aurelius

Comments

In: Does everything have a start?  — view comment
You are still assuming "movement" and "causality" are real. If, as the argument states, that they are illusions based on the complexity of the state w...
November 22, 2018 at 18:02
In: Does everything have a start?  — view comment
Your response assumes time and causality are real, and not an illusion. However, the argument states that if you remove time, then causality itself is...
November 22, 2018 at 17:20
In: Why is there anything at all? Why not nothing? My solution Version 2.1  — view comment
I like the comparison between the present moment and a hard drive, but why not take it a step forward and propose like Barber that time and motion are...
November 17, 2018 at 20:36
In: Does everything have a start?  — view comment
The problem with asking for something to have a start is that the argument might always be circular: there will always be a need for a "prime mover", ...
November 17, 2018 at 18:55
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