Made me giggle a little. The exact same can be said of claims of extraterrestrial intelligence. Are you not familiar with people walking about with ti...
Right. So what is the epistemological difference (the "in part" aspect) between claims of the supernatural and claims of extraterrestrial intelligence...
No. I'm saying that they're epistemologically indistinguishable from supernatural claims. Belief in neither can be definitely evidenced either true or...
I enjoyed the video in the OP. Thanks. There’s a reliance in the video on a specific form of hope that, tmk, remains unmentioned. There’s the hope for...
Yea. I'm finding it hard to believe that I need to explain this on a philosophy forum to one who seems familiar with philosophical concepts, but so be...
I gather then that we agree there can be no (universally recognizable) proof either for or against the reality of supernatural claims as we know them....
If this wouldn’t entirely miss the point of the OP, maybe if the proposition is rephrased then the connection between understanding and coherency migh...
In keeping with … but addressing the issue more generally: Intent upon what is morally good by its very nature limits/binds/restricts our otherwise pr...
OK, but then it seems you'd be expecting the supernatural to not only be inexplicable given what's currently known about nature but to outright contra...
You say, "good evidence can verify supernatural occurrences." I ask, "what would 'good evidence' be?" You answer, "tests." I ask, "can you provide a v...
Fair enough. Curious to know your reply to this. I might even agree with it. If consciousness is not a delusion - such that the hard problem does occu...
I have addressed a specific claim of clairvoyance. No reply as to what evidence could possibly validate its reality. Scientific tests require that the...
Groovy. On what grounds do you then discern which human does and does not have consciousness? For consciousness "completely lacks evident or (directly...
Hm. Personally, I have no idea! But then again, I’m not the one affirming this: BTW, my own views on the matter are in many a way unconventional, and ...
In hoping not to be talking past each other, my question concerns the epistemic. I can’t conceive of any type of evidence that can convince an adamant...
While I don’t have a bias toward Abrahamic religions, they tend to predominate - and so are better known to most of us. As a fairly well-known aspect ...
Yes, I'm familiar with it. To a large extent I'm in agreement. Reminds me of Aikido philosophy which, from my readings, in part affirms that each of u...
Even so, I say, bullocks. What effective advertisement does not incorporate some form of art? One doesn't need sensitivity to be affected by advertise...
What comes to my mind: soft, delicate, translucent ... not what one typically attributes to the state of being handsome but, instead, being (at least ...
The aesthetic I did my best to define in this post. The beautiful, as I previously addressed, to me typically indicates in today's world a subcategory...
Alright, but it's in the eye of the beholder. To me it's not grotesque - or else viscerally revolting - but simply ugly, in both technique and depicti...
I previously mentioned some of Goya's later works. Here's an example (if I can get the image to show): https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Viejos_...
OK, but isn't the artwork nevertheless aesthetic to the beholder(s) even if not beautiful? BTW, : I'll try my best to laconically define the aesthetic...
I noticed that about the definitions. But, then, definitions can be imperfect, and the cultural significance of terms is malleable. More to the point,...
Beauty can be a misleading word. It often connotes prettiness at the expense of numerous other attributes. At any rate, though what is beautiful is al...
That's one interpretation, sure. Do you see any relation between the quantum vacuum and wisdom? or virtue? or anything else that directly or indirectl...
Interesting stuff. I do greatly like the boldfaced part of this quote from the same Wikipedia page: While I don’t want to take away from the want to r...
Alright you. Enough said. Out of curiosity, what do you make of the particle-wave duality? Do you take electrons to be both particles and waves at the...
I'm not going to unpack everything, and I'm not here to debate the nature of QM, but this: ... is not what the law of identity states. See my previous...
Trying out my luck at explaining the law of identity in a manner that might be understood. That which is (A) is not and cannot be that which it is not...
In agreement with what you wrote. Materialism is an ingrained aspect of our culture at large, with a lot of history to this. I'm still thinking that i...
This got me thinking. According the Pew Research Center, about half of all scientists are neither atheists nor agnostics. This is much lower than the ...
In a rational humanity devoid of hypocrisy, in a word, yes. There are two typical understanding of "science": One is any branch of learning. Here math...
Seems like a bit of a non sequitur ... Can you either cite references of this being "the magical teleportation of quantum particles which they willful...
A proposition containing logical necessities whose subject matter does not correspond to any natural processes or entities: A Chimera (from Greek myth...
To be clearer: evolution: natural selection upon mutations ... and further details related to this biology: the study of life If the argument is that ...
I agree. As different examples, plants and even ameba exhibit intelligent behavior. Are they intelligent? They are alive; and some, such as myself, de...
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