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Stephen Cook

['Member']Joined: June 03, 2019 at 17:12Last active: June 16, 2019 at 01:55None discussions8 comments

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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...
June 16, 2019 at 01:34
Cultural transmission occurs. Most of it unconsciously and without permission granted nor asked for. Some of that transmission might be seen crass app...
June 16, 2019 at 01:08
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...
June 13, 2019 at 18:10
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...
June 13, 2019 at 14:14
I don't ignore metaphysics. I deny it.
June 13, 2019 at 13:59
And yet, we are compelled, by virtue of our genetic inheritance, to believe and to act as if it does exist.
June 13, 2019 at 10:54
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...
June 13, 2019 at 10:52
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 ...
June 13, 2019 at 09:40
Evil, in addition to Good, requires the existence Free Will. So, the the more fundamental quesiton that requires answering before the question of the ...
June 13, 2019 at 09:18
I like that. I like it a lot. Put far better than me.
June 12, 2019 at 14:28
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...
June 12, 2019 at 14:24
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June 12, 2019 at 14:23
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...
June 11, 2019 at 17:42
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...
June 07, 2019 at 18:04
There are objective conditions of reality. Facts are falsifiable human descriptions of those objective conditions. To that extent, they are objective ...
June 04, 2019 at 00:51
I just wrote you a full response, and it has since been deleted.
June 03, 2019 at 19:16
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...
June 03, 2019 at 19:08
The question is moot. We are not going anywhere.
June 03, 2019 at 17:25