Putting aside what the hell consciousness actually is, I think a good place to start is to ask what it might be for. To that end, a metaphor might hel...
Cultural transmission occurs. Most of it unconsciously and without permission granted nor asked for. Some of that transmission might be seen crass app...
All you have done there is move the goalposts. But, it's the same goal Moral discrimination of the kind you are referring to requires choice to be mad...
Perhaps, another way to express that which I have already outlined in my previous posts is in relation to causality. To accept the premise that good a...
Regarding my immediately previous post about the necessity of answering the question of whether free will can exist before being able to answer the qu...
In a universe run along classical principles, it's all just billiard balls. If one had a God's eye view and knew the position, velocity and direction ...
Evil, in addition to Good, requires the existence Free Will. So, the the more fundamental quesiton that requires answering before the question of the ...
Fair point. Okay, I should qualify my argument by stating that the above entity is an abstraction of all of the entities of a given population of such...
If we strip away any regard to the substrates involved and/or what those substrate may imply in terms of the mechanics of the living process we are le...
This argument could be equally used by someone who raised slaves from birth here on earth. Would that also just "be life" and something that they shou...
There are objective conditions of reality. Facts are falsifiable human descriptions of those objective conditions. To that extent, they are objective ...
Nuclear Fission is not powerful enough, nuclear fusion is always 50 years away and, besides, each of these have limitations due to the fuel needing to...
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