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Well, we can escape it, it’s just less effort to roll with it, and justify it, and pretend that it’s somehow necessary. The ‘need’ to procreate derive...
January 08, 2020 at 04:02
I can understand and appreciate your holistic approach to the concept of a ‘universal mind’ processing information, as well as your use of created ter...
January 08, 2020 at 02:16
Yes, but it isn’t improper (language being relatively arbitrary), only unnecessary and confusing to qualify ‘happy’, defined as a feeling, with the te...
January 07, 2020 at 18:51
It can refer to BOTH energy AND communication (information) - but I’m not convinced that a new term is either necessary or helpful, and I don’t think ...
January 07, 2020 at 11:14
‘Happy’ already IS feeling, it doesn’t need ‘feeling’ to qualify it. You’re confusing ‘happy’ as a feeling (which doesn’t require a qualifier) with ‘h...
January 07, 2020 at 06:47
January 07, 2020 at 04:21
I’m not denying the fields are ‘real’, nor am I denying that we can interact with them or map them - just not directly and not completely. What I’m sa...
January 07, 2020 at 04:16
The way I see it, what is most fundamental in the universe is not ‘stuff’, but interaction. Particles are a decoherence of potentiality from these fie...
January 06, 2020 at 12:14
I agree with you that the subject-object divide is not ontological, but epistemological. I think this is the confusion that Wayfarer describes in the ...
January 06, 2020 at 02:14
I have to say that I would have initially agreed with @"Wayfarer" in this discussion - I always thought when talking about a ‘being’ that we’re common...
January 05, 2020 at 10:24
The origin of life is an outcome without apparent motive. Any ‘motive’ we try to attribute to this outcome is a self-justifying prophecy, because ther...
January 03, 2020 at 08:45
A concept always refers to a five dimensional subjective experience, so to distinguish between ‘reason’ as a concept and ‘reason’ as process is simply...
January 03, 2020 at 08:03
You don’t have to ‘feel’ collaboration for it to occur, and it certainly doesn’t require common goals as such. Collaboration only requires that the ou...
January 03, 2020 at 05:29
I don’t see altruism or collaboration as motivation in itself. I think perhaps this is a misunderstanding: that we should be striving to be ‘altruisti...
January 03, 2020 at 03:28
1) I think there are certainly posters on this forum who do strongly emphasise altruistic and humanitarian aims, but there are also many who merely gi...
January 03, 2020 at 02:49
The way I see it, love and desire originate from the same affect or feeling, but the confusion comes from a misunderstanding of ‘person’ as referring ...
December 23, 2019 at 11:27
I’m going to stop you here, because I’m starting to see why we’re getting nowhere - you cannot rationally apply logical reasoning to moral intentions....
December 23, 2019 at 09:17
My mention of ‘survival instinct’ was anticipating your response to the question of why you eat when you’re hungry. You do realise that you don’t have...
December 23, 2019 at 03:24
Not you - I was referring to those you’re trying to convince not to procreate. Even if they followed your ethical guidelines, they can still ignore yo...
December 22, 2019 at 10:25
‘Anyone in their right minds’ is a subjective value structure. What you mean is ‘anyone in YOUR mind’. This is your perspective of their life and the ...
December 22, 2019 at 10:10
I agree that ethics doesn’t have any binding power. I personally think people ‘should’ do certain things, and they ‘shouldn’t’ do other things - but I...
December 22, 2019 at 09:22
Sorry for the confusion - this was in reference to mankind as a whole. I recognise what we’re trying to do here. I think what the world needs from hum...
December 22, 2019 at 08:22
Not what I’m saying at all. You have in your head a concept that you think is close to what I’m arguing here, and you’re running with that instead of ...
December 22, 2019 at 07:43
The difference is that you seem to think we should have a different reality. Bear with me while I attempt to understand what you’re proposing here. In...
December 22, 2019 at 04:51
It is in the process of consciously determining an action that a negative ethics is applied. But in order to consciously initiate an action, a positiv...
December 20, 2019 at 12:08
Ethics is only about how not to act in relation to the conducting of an activity. So negative ethics cannot stand alone.
December 20, 2019 at 01:14
Why do you say ‘currently’?
December 20, 2019 at 01:09
It’s not possible to increase both awareness and ignorance with the same action. Awareness is acquiring information about the world; ignorance is reje...
December 20, 2019 at 01:06
What do you understand ‘suffering’ to be?
December 20, 2019 at 00:57
There is no game: no activity that one engages in for fun or amusement; no form of competitive activity or sport played according to rules; no episode...
December 20, 2019 at 00:55
Describe to me what ‘optimal conditions’ would be for an ‘individual’ to exist.
December 19, 2019 at 11:27
Ignorant of what? Of how YOU think the world is? Ignorance is a blatant refusal to recognise that the ‘harm’ you perceive is prediction error: the wor...
December 19, 2019 at 02:08
This is victim mentality, or at least a form of ‘learned helplessness’. You’re simply unaware of your capacity for action, and unwilling to explore it...
December 19, 2019 at 00:08
That doesn’t answer the question.
December 18, 2019 at 16:34
So would you say that ‘consistency’ is an ethical principle or something else?
December 18, 2019 at 11:25
An underlying impetus is not goal-directed, but neither is it random. Like a Mandelbrot set (only six-dimensional), it has a simple pattern that leads...
December 18, 2019 at 11:17
The trick is understanding the difference between the pain that we cause to ourselves through our own ignorance, isolation or exclusion, and the pain ...
December 18, 2019 at 10:28
Thank you for clarifying. But this ‘other person’ you’re talking about never existed, and never will exist. It’s like your very own personal strawman....
December 17, 2019 at 00:14
I’m aware of this. But you are not preventing harm for another person by denying their existence, because that ‘person’ does not exist. So you’re not ...
December 16, 2019 at 01:57
What you’re talking about is only preventing harm to your own progeny - not preventing ALL harm. That’s hardly the same thing. In fact, it barely rate...
December 16, 2019 at 01:27
Where’s the conflict? Just because I understand why people will procreate doesn’t mean I’m justifying procreation. I can evaluate their actions based ...
December 16, 2019 at 01:08
THIS is my problem. We don’t know this at all. Harm continues to occur regardless of procreation - I’m not even sure what gives you this idea. You’ll ...
December 16, 2019 at 00:35
We agreed that it revolves around autonomy of the individual being violated. The negative ethics revolves around that.. Why not just have a child for ...
December 16, 2019 at 00:28
That’s fair. I do get that your focus is prevention, but you’re talking about a ‘parent’ in relation to an existing child, not a possible one. You’re ...
December 15, 2019 at 23:25
You keep lumping conception and birth together as if it’s the same thing. I get that you’re trying to avoid the abortion debate, but it’s more than a ...
December 14, 2019 at 23:59
There is a difference between self-justification and collaborating with reality. Self-justification is when we deal with cognitive dissonance by ignor...
December 14, 2019 at 05:36
Okay, but then what does it have to with the principle of non-aggression? Enabling you to be somewhere, whether you thought you had a choice in being ...
December 14, 2019 at 01:54
Three criteria to establish a cause-effect relationship: The cause must occur before the effect. Whenever the cause occurs, the effect must also occur...
December 14, 2019 at 01:47
No, it isn’t forcing the child to get punched in the face. The punch in the face is a separate event in which one can identify an act of force. This a...
December 13, 2019 at 14:46
You keep coming up with analogies that cannot be the same thing. If you chose instead NOT to bring me to this obstacle course, I would still exist, an...
December 13, 2019 at 00:07