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I think all this misery I feel is a result of knowing enough to believe that all we see can be completely explained materially and that there is no re...

Novelty. Creativity. Do they really exist? Yes, but not if you are the person in which it came. You can't create with more than you have to create wit...

Right and not worth arguing about

I say Captain Ahab was already there before he was thought into existence. For the same reason I can invent a random word at will, like fragalagadingd...

We evolved. Life is all about satisfying yourself. There is no living creature that doesn't aim to satisfy itself, or their species would go extinct.

When you do it to hurt someone's feeling intentionally or course. But that doest necessarily mean the intended person is offended in any way. If they ...

It's more about the definition of mean. It's in itself not a moral issue. A child taking a toy from another because it wants it and feels jealousy for...

I'd like to see what a brain in a jar would be like. Taken from a normal person whilst alive. If you had just a brain, without ears and eyes, no sense...

I would just reword it a little to; Anything in existence is real in it's entirely, regardless of anyone/thing seeing or knowing about it.

I would disagree and say that any fiction is a compilation of prior reality, mixed up into something which only appears novel.

I'm English and our definition covers both being tight with money and being cruel in some way. I doubt the definitions are worth mentioning. Mean is i...

This the problem though. When someone, who has obviously studied philosophy comes here to start a thread, the chances are it's a question that's alrea...

Well it works fine if you take away the prerequisite of perfect having to be complex in some way, or being out of reach for human conceivability. I th...

Someone has to pick up your rubbish and stock your food, cook your bread and make all your clothes, long in advance of the day when you have enough ti...

Didn't read the post, only the title. It's no, they're not compatible. Every time a new scientific theory is established an angel dies .

opinion? The only reason chemistry works is because atoms are quantised. You can't say they are anything other than perfect. Unless you disapprove of ...

I would disagree and say every atom is technically perfect unless you're lumping it in with light. Every proton is exactly the same meaning all matter...

Matter/energy is real and very tangible. The idea that any effect on it can come from something that's neither is ridiculous. Do you really believe co...

I don't like this 'potential' idea. Things have potential of course, but potential is not a thing. Matter cannot consist of the shear potential it hol...

What is time dilation then? Clocks in different frames of reference tend to disagree. I'm assuming you have a different approach as it's not really de...

We see thing on far more scales than just the standard human perception. Since the invention of the telescope/microscope, we see much deeper. Know mor...

Is beg to differ. After all, there is no other way for a universe to be perceived. It can't be seen or experienced but it's within the reaches of thou...

Why would there need to be a something preventing other universes from appearing? There only need be a lack of something which could cause another.

I like your views on religion. We should have moved past it years ago. Still, with regards to the evidence of the BB, I think it's not quite substanti...

It seems like a leap of faith to me. There are other explanations for expansion or the microwave background which I find more plausible. Not to mentio...

Atheist, at your service. Reincarnation is a fantasy. And karma is an obvious no no. I don't need to explain my reasoning because what PoeticUniverse?...

Intelligent principal of the universe ay. Guess I'm a little short of spirit. I give up.

The philosophical definition of spiritualism; the doctrine that the spirit exists as distinct from matter, or that spirit is the only reality. All you...

Yeah, I don't buy it. Also I can't see any paradigm shift in this direction. It's just fancy spiritualism.

What influence would considering matter as potential have on the future? You said this way of thinking allows the gaps in our understanding to dissolv...

Yes but what difference does it make? It's just a more complicated way of pushing the buck. I could say space is the only thing which exists because w...

Stuff.

I still believe everything is made out of just empty space. However contradictory it is. New question. Is empty space the same as nothing? Empty is th...

Best answer so far. Painfully.

I think matter is an interaction between different energy levels and directions, spins and size. But again, it still doesn't help. What's any energy, ...

That's a bit much considering the op.

Wave functions collapse everywhere without any observer. Does sunlight not interact with all the places on earth where nobody is looking and that's wh...

But I think you knew that.

Theory of everything.

There is nothing known that can fit the description of what matter is made of. Nobody here has come close. Even light or the field it's waving through...

Me. He's a liar and a cheat. Not to mention a coward. Looks to me like maybe you have done some of this wish washy, half lie, half truth rubbish and y...

Why does it matter that an infinite afterlife would leave you bored or to have some godlike mental capacity if there is no such thing as an afterlife?...

Is it not then still a lie as you are aware of the deceit?

You can't lie and then afterwards, realising what you said was actually correct, erase the lie. It remains a lie but changes from false to true. All t...

Where are all the better ideas?

Oh, a particle is a long event happening. I should of known.

I love you. That's amazing. But you are still made of nothing so how on earth can I take you seriously? Joking Beautifully said again though. I want t...

I hope so because what you said was really beautiful. It sums it up really well. I have decided empty space can do things it shouldn't be able to. How...

I'm open to a better suggestion. But I've been open to a better idea for a while. A may well of gone mad.

I think nothing is completely something. Nothing on its own is a useless, non reality. When there is something, like a universe, then nothing has ever...