Right. There's a difference between merely that something exists (?) and what exactly something is (quiddity), though. Shamelessly pointing over at an...
Suppose things were made of pixie dust. The scientific methodologies wouldn't change a bit. In (very) short, science is self-critical, bias-minimizing...
A 3-or-so-year-old social comment on the US that seems ever relevant: Anti-intellectualism Is Killing America Social dysfunction can be traced to the ...
Wouldn't fare well with scriptural accounts or among church/mosque folk. Abstracts aren't sentient or causal, for example, but kind of inert. Religiou...
The listed items are not exhaustive (which may not be feasible in the first place). More like a few simple basics extracted from experiences through l...
(here’s a copy/paste of something I once typed up elsewhere) We don’t usually talk about torture of rocks or abuse of snow. Moral matters are (existen...
There are any number of related inquiries. How might I prove to you that I'm self-aware? Does it all cease to exist while I'm unconscious? Only to re-...
In a major project, Reuters tracks the real impact of President Trump’s policies - all in one spot: This is ‘The Trump Effect’. Top story as of typing...
Guns, Germs, and Steel (1997) by Jared Diamond is a great read on how different societies evolved/developed differently. Diamond has a flair for spott...
There's also the in/voluntary aspect of beliefs. Example of involuntary: I have troubles choosing to believe, to be convinced, that there are pink ele...
Physicists create new form of light Jennifer Chu MIT News Office Feb 2018 Observation of three-photon bound states in a quantum nonlinear medium Qi-Yu...
Wouldn't it be neat if a 1-dimensional model could be found, that our universe could be "encoded" in? Would go well with computation analogies and sim...
Haven't watched "The Good Place". Might be worth checking out. Meet the Philosophers Who Give ‘The Good Place’ Its Scholarly Bona Fides Chris Quintana...
, when looking at your piece of paper, put your hands in front of your eyes so you no longer see it. Now move your hands away again. 1) Did the paper ...
Having abandoned logic, you've abandoned identity ("it's fine saying that G is not G"), non-contradiction (G is possible and impossible, G both refers...
If G is illogical in this manner, then it's fine saying that G is not G. (¬(G = G)) ? (G = G) Not sure why anyone would make such a move; they'd no lo...
Thanks for the posts all. It seems that, by current findings, big bang inflation + expansion does not account for the spatial extent of the universe. ...
There's plenty talk about these supposed beings. Yet, the talkers don't show them, and they don't show, all that's left is the talk. The talkers would...
Aren't leaders supposed to set an example? And to be reliable? ...? Promoting the sentiment expressed by calling places "shitholes" shifts focus away ...
“Transcends time” or “outside of spacetime” or some such does have implications. Suppose x is defined as not spatial, “outside of space”. Well, then o...
The typical idea towards this, is a block universe "viewed from the outside" if you will. As per above, I don't think this can be coherent if it inclu...
Well, cannot be communicated to, at least. (Which incidentally would make prayer futile.) More pertinently, cannot be a mind. Minds are not inert, ina...
Might be more interesting if you had visions (plural) of someone/something entirely unknown to you, that you could then later verify/falsify independe...
Suppose (for the sake of argument heh) that we're imperfect perception/conception organisms. What might we then expect...? Ayer had an epic experience...
Well, something that's atemporal, "outside of time" cannot interact, cannot see or observe, which would require being subject to causation (an effect ...
A copy/paste from elsewhere (without embedded links, too lazy): Mind is typically used as an umbrella term, including the likes of, or synonymous with...
There's a more straight forward incompatibility to be found, as far as I can tell. Suppose one entity, or single mind, that's both omniscient and free...
, not to detract from your angle with the opening post, but perhaps perspective could be contrasted by omnipresence if you will (ignoring the religiou...
Well, I for one like to think there's more to the world than what meets the eye (including my neighbor's dog). Solipsism is a performative contradicti...
Your Color Red Really Could Be My Blue (Natalie Wolchover, Live Science, Jun 2012) Calling roses, strawberries, blood, apples, Santa, etc red is a mat...
Get well into 2018 everyone. (Had a bit of bourbon left for toasting new years with some folks overseas. Skype - it's cool like that.) /uploads/files/...
Now you're just making noise, @"Agustino", moreso than other discussions on the topic that I'm aware of anyway. And it's a bit disingenuous to tell ot...
I was talking about Hinduism (which includes some polytheist varieties), Christianity (Catholics, Protestants, Jehovah's Witnesses), Islam (Sunnis, Sh...
@"Agustino", I have no particular reason or obligation to take the countless human claims of supernatural deities, their elaborate plans, what they wa...
Most agree on mind-body-other interaction, yes? I feel hungry, so I grab some grub, and don't feel hungry any longer (if animals consistently ignored ...
Well, we can assume that anyone (including non-humans, but not rocks) likes freedom and dislikes harm by default. I mean, don't you? (This could be a ...
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