dclements

Your trying to use language/Boolean logic to resolve a problem were you need to quantify aspects of the real world that can not be resolved in such a ...

"Cogito, ergo sum" is sloppy critical thinking since Descartes never really bother to go down the skepticism rabbit hole when he came up with it. Anot...

According to some scientist the Big Bang was just a theory created to help them model the universe, but lately there has been some discoveries that ha...

To the best of my knowledge conditional oughts/moral beliefs are DEFINED by one's culture and/or system of beliefs, they don't and can't exist indepen...

"The only truth that there is, is that there is no truth" - anonymous Anyone that seriously studies philosophy should be cautious of any so called "tr...

What if a given AI (or AIs) is being guided by or used by any given individual? While it is a given that current machines themselves can not create th...

IMHO, Monism contradicts common sense as well other things such as concept of dukkha taught in Buddhism. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Du%E1%B8%A5kha ...

I've been trying to keep up with everything in Ukraine but I will admit I haven't really read a lot of the recent posts in this thread so I apologize ...

Philosophy is just a form of critical thinking. Unfortunately, not a lot of people know how to do it well nowadays as we are too often forced to act w...

I could be wrong but I don't know of a any culture or society in history being really anti-science/anti-technology. Part of the issue is if any large ...

Is overpopulation really an issue or is it something that is to thought to be an issue? I could be wrong but there are some people that claim that in ...

I more or less agree. Although we have come a long way over the last few hundreds of years. I agree that we are far from knowing about everything abou...

I basically conclude that I saw something that was unlike things that I have seen before. Obviously seeing something (as well as others seeing it) for...

And yet you are not willing to consider me to be sincere when I have made such claims. The funny thing is you are so busy attacking straw men (with yo...

Your right! Thanks for bringing it up! :D I don't know if the "placebo effect" shows some kind of physical phenomena that can not be explained by curr...

Ok, ok, just chill. It is a given when I say "I and other people say a ghost" it is a given that we saw something that "looked" like a ghost, just lik...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PK2VIMZBOCY

While this isn't exactly what this thread is about, it is similar in that it is an issue in that people have been injured in a way that has yet to be ...

In my first encounter with ghost I would have wrote it off as a hallucination/trick of the light if the person next to me didn't see it as well. To be...

I agree. I think there are similar issues with other phenomenon, such as the "Wow Signal". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6rPNPVQp0Y It has long bee...

Thanks. :D

Speaking about extraordinary evidence I wonder if anyone here has heard about the story of Ted Owen, a guy who use to call himself the "PK man"? Ted_O...

While it is a given that this would not be considered "extraordinary evidence" to you, what would you say about those of us who have ever seen somethi...

Could you provide an actual link to the comment you are talking about?

How about just requiring just enough evidence for merely ordinary claims? Did Benjamin Franklin require to provide "extraordinary evidence" when he di...

There is a difference between what is typically considered to be "magic" and something that is a physical phenomenon that we have yet to understand. I...

I'll have to try to read up on such technology. It kind of reminds me of how back around 2010 Popular Science wrote an article about "The Best 10 Jobs...

One of the things I heard that were not allowed are the so called "Psi Wheel". Psi wheel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psi_wheel https://www.youtube.c...

I agree the corroborating evidence isn't enough to show that any hypothesis yet made is accurate enough to explain the physical phenomenon well enough...

Thanks. :D When I have a chance I will try to check it out. If you can can you give me a short summary of what the book is about?

I could be wrong but there have been certain physical phenomenon that not well understood until either around 200 years ago or even a hundred years ag...

I agree. Under the paradigm/narrative I choose to believe in, I dismiss all axioms and believe them to be false. It isn't that I believe that others w...

The idea that there might be multi-universes is better than what we once had which was just there was a "big-bang" and there was nothing (or at least ...

It isn't a given that the statement "there's nothing outside of everything" or your other statement "anything that interacts with what is real must al...

I disagree. What we know about reality is merely based on our observations and while our observations have allowed us to be able to predict what reali...

Um..Ok. :meh:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASIYi6DhlK4 It reminds me of a quote from the Joker said while being interrogated in prison. Their morals, their code;...

Is this just something they did when the survivors where willing to be civil about the situation and accept their fate? For some reason I imagine some...

We don't have technology advanced enough to create a simulation potentially good enough to trick the human mind so it is not really here or there for ...

No, that is not how it works. A real baseball is a real object where as an imaginary is merely an abstract object. An idea or concept is not the same ...

I agree. Your statement reminds me of the kind of stuff Immanuel Kant wrote about in his life. If you haven't read any books about him I suggest that ...

I'm sorry but I'm not familiar with the math you are talking about and what the meaning of "set", "powerset", or other terms you are using. Because of...

There is a problem with your statement, your claiming reality to equal everything but also stating that it is "self-changing" which is ambiguous. Unle...

I think you are misinterpreting some of what I'm trying to say. It isn't about the END OF CHINA but more about the END OF THE CURRENT WAY CHINA DOES T...

I know it may sound like a stupid position to have but I believe that extending peoples lives serves a larger purpose than merely giving the people th...

I will have to read/review this thread in the upcoming days in order to have a better idea of what it was all about. And again sorry for being late in...

I apologize that I'm late in replying. My mom had to go to the hospital yesterday so I kind of got a bit distracted from getting back to this thread.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UkxPljdU6M

The fact that cancer cells, certain stem cells, etc. are immortal isn't really all that important since it is already a given that single cell organis...

I suggest you either drink more coffee and/or perhaps pop some nicotine gum into your mouth to help you feel more alive. While the process of getting ...