??? This is not true. At least not in a biologically fully formed individual. We can alter our DNA in the zygote stage, and that has lead to nothing s...
In my opinion binary people are either 1 (one) or 0 (zero). I don't want to think of myself as a Zero. Much less in lower case, as a zero. So, by the ...
You said this in response to a (by me true) claim by PfHorrest, "Music pushes emotional buttons." (Not quoted verbatim.) It is true. PfH only states a...
I attended several trials. As an outside observer. The presiding judge at one jury trial gave directives to the jury; the directives included somethin...
Facts are solidified opinions. Facts weaken under extreme heat and pressure. Truth is elastic. -- "The Physics of Epistemology", taken from "Murphy's ...
For starters, Spinoza said, or claimed, as you said, "God has will" and "God has no will". If someone (Spinoza in this case, as per your recall) so bl...
What does Spinoza ACTUALLY say? You claim he contradicts himself, which can be claimed even without any extra thinking: "God .. has no will" "They bot...
Thanks. Attributes (or forms of movement) do not derive from each other, but they do influence each other. What Spinoza says about this, is archaic, t...
Actually, I did not say They are wrong. I said, "i've been wronged." The two are not the same. It is incredibly important in philosophy to read texts ...
I don't get this. Can you explain? What's "a previous thougth"? Any previous thought, or only select a few kinds of previous thoughts? What kind of th...
I think you're absolutely right, inasmuch as resentment builds when deprivation of a desired thing occurs. But I add to it that I also feel that I've ...
@"Franz Liszt", you should ask instead, "Is it moral to declare and to pretend I am an atheist, but when I am accused of being a theist, I deny it at ...
People don't call each other ugly not due to some moral consideration, but because of the possible and likely repercussions. People don't make enemies...
Apology to @"sime". I spelled your name as Slime. Honest mistake, I have at times double vision of vertical lines. It's due to my diabetes, if my suga...
Thank, you, @"slime". You have given me more insight into the works of these two great misspent minds than the ten years of post-doctorate philosophic...
Personally, I can't describe any difference or similarity between the two. One is six, the other, half a dozen. If anyone claims they get something ou...
Banno, you can't address the title "What’s the biggest difference Heidegger and Wittgenstein?" directly. It is impossible to address it directly or in...
I went to a philosophy meetup sometime a decade or so ago. It was a physical meeting in a bar. The hosting couple were philo majors. They proved under...
It has to be a very long sentence. For the record, I still don't understand the theory of forms. Are they real? Do they exist? Are they imitable? I im...
This is true. But what if you say, or somebody else said, "was influenced by the ideas within it?" Still not always true, as people can come to brilli...
I am sorry, but I fail to see the relevance of this paragraph to our discussion. I am not saying that the mind is the brain. I am saying that we can d...
Could you please tell me on which page, and from the top, how manieth post it is that contains it? I really, but really don't want to read posts only ...
I think I am staying away form defining the physical description of the physical mind, because our discussion assumes that the physical world is assum...
You use physical categories to help you decide that the mind is not physical. It lacks weight, volume, smell, etc. So it IS physical characteristics t...
Good point. Now let's get back to the beginning. You assert, and I agree, that the only empirical thing that is proven in an a priori way is "I think ...
The most important paragraph in this post is the last one. Feel welcome to skip to there and ignore the in-between contents. True. But you seem to be ...
I'll ask you the question I suppose in 5,000 years, when spirituality has explained pretty much everything it is mandated to, except how matter arises...
True, but only if two different theories explain the one and same thing. But Idealism does not explain the material world. whereas materialism explain...
Yep, it's you. Interesting to hear how you describe the reasons to get banned. My memory (as faulty as it is) recall is that you were banned because y...
I don't think humans want to live forever. But they don't want to die either. So the upshot is "just one more day", and if their wish would come true,...
How do you figure this? It's impossible. The integral of any function that is between zero and plus infinity and the curve of which never reaches the ...
Nikolas, I remember you from that other philosophy site, I forgot its name, because my mind is quickly turning to mush. The memory part. There are ton...
Blondie has immortalized this concept in her song "Rapture". (...) And you get in your car and drive real far And you drive all night and then you see...
True. Materialism is a theory, and as such, it can't be proven. Nothing can be proven. The only thing we know (not via proof, but via the mechanism of...
Interesting. Reading your posts, I always have envisioned you as a seven-headed serpent-monster, who has snakes coming out of the heads for hair, and ...
What do you mean by "reject it". You mean dismiss the argument? No, my main drag was not to dismiss your argument but to question your authenticity. I...
That's our fallacy no. 1. We don't know if it's bs. We have no knowledge of their experience. But it's not revealed to us whether their claimed experi...
Now, here I disagree. They may see it that way; but that's not enough to claim that their way of seeing it is pervasive and necessarily true. If we pu...
Good questions. My points were aimed at an atheistic audience, not at a religious or else at an analytic albeit atheistic audience. The audience shoul...
This is good for the atheists as a supportive documentation, but to theists it is not an excluding factor. That is the problem for both sides. No excl...
Meaning and logic are human's tools to explain things. In and by themselves they don't exist. If there were no human minds, logic would not exist, nor...
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