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Filipe

['Member']Joined: March 14, 2019 at 11:08Last active: June 13, 2021 at 21:204 discussions21 comments
Location: Brazil

Bio

Even if there was a God I would still not follow Him

Favourite Philosopher

Niccolò Machiavelli

Favourite Quotations

We are part of this universe; we are in this universe, but perhaps more important than both of those facts, is that the universe is in us... Neil Degrasse Tyson

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In: Is Suicide always irrational and immoral?  — view comment
I think that it is a mistake to say that something so extreme as suicide can be moral. I do not think that your life is a gift or even that has been g...
August 05, 2019 at 13:05
In: Useful knowledge vs. scientific knowledge  — view comment
You are right it feels incomplete because you are right to say that you do not need to know how chemistry work to make a cake you just need the right ...
August 02, 2019 at 11:49
In: Important Unknowns  — view comment
You say that someone cannot be sure about the Non-Existence of the deity (any deity) but that is simply not true, is perfectly possible to prove a neg...
July 24, 2019 at 11:10
In: Equanimity, as true happiness.  — view comment
I personally believe that all happiness comes from the acceptance that there is no true happiness. The concept of a moment in your existence where you...
July 23, 2019 at 10:59
In: Why there must be free will  — view comment
The problem with free will is that you cannot have it if you exist... Your person is a compilation of the things that you lived and your tastes, so al...
July 23, 2019 at 10:45
In: The basics of free will  — view comment
All types of "Freedom" can be considered infinite paradoxes. Can you choose to not have freedom? Because if you can you will not have freedom after al...
July 21, 2019 at 01:16
In: Zeno and Immortality  — view comment
Time in itself is relative to the experiencer, exactly because infinity is relative, there are infinite numbers between 0 and 1, but it is intrinsical...
July 19, 2019 at 10:52
In: There is no Real You.  — view comment
The question "Why would you even ask that?" or "What is the reason to ask such things". I would say that the short answer is peace. Because once that ...
July 17, 2019 at 16:03
In: We Don't Matter  — view comment
There is only one problem with your hypothesis and that is because you are using the human perspective to describe the non-human. Its the same as sayi...
July 13, 2019 at 15:29
In: The eternity Problem  — view comment
My point is that, as long as there are "things" to learn and do they must be Finite and if you have an infinite amount of time it is categorical that ...
July 11, 2019 at 18:00
In: The Paradox of the invention.  — view comment
yes it was, tried and falied thousants of times throughout history, it became pointless, technology is exponential and I personaly belive in the Techn...
March 20, 2019 at 12:33
In: The Paradox of the invention.  — view comment
So was flying on 1900 and we landed on the moon in 1969...
March 20, 2019 at 12:27
In: The Paradox of the invention.  — view comment
I share your beliefs, time is unstoppable and it already considers any "time adventures" that may happen.
March 20, 2019 at 10:41
In: The Paradox of the invention.  — view comment
All paradoxs are fiction it is just interesting to think about it, but at the same it implicates some incredible insights on multi verso and the expat...
March 20, 2019 at 10:40
In: The reason why the runaway railitruck dilemma is problematic to some.  — view comment
I agree with @"Terrapin Station" I do not see as dilemma at all and I would go as far as saying that even when you introduce the ideia of family in th...
March 17, 2019 at 10:37
In: The paradox of Death  — view comment
-@"czahar" I understand your confusion and I do apologize, what I ment by original form is that we spent most of the time of the universe not being he...
March 17, 2019 at 09:56
In: The paradox of Death  — view comment
-- @"CaZaNOx" I would never attempt to judge the fear of dying, it is a evolutionary necessity of survival and it will never leave humans and it shoul...
March 17, 2019 at 09:49
In: The paradox of Death  — view comment
But I am not talking about dying, but about death in itself.
March 16, 2019 at 14:10
In: The paradox of Death  — view comment
When we think that experience is only dictaded by what our Brains decide... If you have no memory of walking from point A - B did you really walked? i...
March 16, 2019 at 13:57
In: The paradox of Death  — view comment
that is a very complex subject that you approached and it brings us back to the argument of the paradox of what is being, (the old complex of understa...
March 16, 2019 at 13:32
In: The paradox of Death  — view comment
That is absolute true, the very necessity of trying to understand the end is a symptom of fear of it but because we are above anything curious of natu...
March 16, 2019 at 13:25
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