:grin: Hey, thanks for the reply. Iffy about this post since I don’t want to take away from the OP, but I’ll post it as a minor sidenote regarding alt...
Wow, thank you much. In my defense, I took my best shot at answering the thread’s question of “what has intrinsic value?”, not bothering with the issu...
Not with infallible certainty, no, but I at least believe that one can justify the universe not being accurately described by physicalism to a suffici...
My bad, I should have made myself more explicit: If my thoughts and other attributes can change without me changing along with them, then it seems rea...
Well, going by what I previously said: If it is a fixed desire, then in this instance there would thereby be no deliberation between the alternatives ...
Supposing consciousness to be a different substance from the information it is aware of, wouldn't you agree that all this scientific evidence neverthe...
In contrast to such stance, it at least seems valid that I don't necessarily change whenever my thoughts change. As one example: I'm the same being I ...
Choice-making and desiring are not one and the same process, and so can’t be simplified into the same given. Other than that, I don’t see any signific...
We seem to have so far been speaking past each other. To my best understanding, the issue is with your use of “will”, which in what I've quoted and li...
I’ve mentioned this before … some long time ago. I’m myself operating with the notion of there being distinct forms of reality within the metaphysics ...
In reply to the question of "What has 'intrinsic value'?" and to add to some of the previous posts: To my mind the answer is: that for which anything ...
and to anyone else in general ... Out of curiosity, come to think of it: Other than by positing the metaphysical position of causal determinism as tru...
I guess my main point with that example of unicorns as existent thoughts was the absurdity of stipulating that there can be "existent physical things ...
As far as I can tell, I've already done so. Remember, free will, as with any notion of causation or determinacy, is a metaphysical one. So, the "freed...
I take that to be a bit of a strawman. I haven’t read of anyone upholding free will that endorses the things you mention. Why not try to find a common...
Brings to mind the only means I've so far found of making any type of reasonable sense of JC's statement that "truth shall set you free": but I think ...
Can you clarify your views as to how this speaks to the Western vilification of enlightenment when enlightenment is understood to minimally entail kno...
With the intention of complementing your statements, divinity appears to be intimately related to that which is sacred in nearly all, if not all, situ...
I'm in agreement with this, and is what I basically maintained in the context of this thread in regard to the mind and its contents. That it's absurd ...
Focusing on: Haven’t read most of this thread but I’ll join the chorus and opinionate. To start with, I’m a fallibilist, so I can’t speak for some for...
I thought the entire post was, in particular: I don't see anything wrong with fallibly knowing that one knows nothing infallibly. As far as the suppos...
... and: Now, while Pyrrhonism is different from Academic skepticism, there's no doubting that the latter was strongly influenced by the former. This ...
Its only contradictory if no equivocation is involved. Importing some terms from the more modern notion of fallibilism, me thinks the statement nowada...
I’m certain that “detachment” makes perfect sense in the context of the Eastern languages where it is thus used. In Buddhism, to my best understanding...
I'm in full agreement. Happens all the time for all types of experiences, mirages as one example. But, to be fair, Neo-Platonism (or Buddhism, for tha...
Personally, I'm doubtful that anyone can. Ecstatic experiences that get close to it, maybe, sure, but - as a personal belief grounded in, granted, imp...
There’s lots of, I'll go ahead and say, inferential content in your latest post to me. Some of which I agree with; some of which I don’t. Trying to ke...
I take this quote to be referring to the notion of objectivity, and it's in regard to this notion that I'm replying. Well, first off, being myself bia...
Yes, I saw that. A natural law, as with a basic law of thought, are taken to be actual if in fact existent. My bad for not clarifying that in my post....
So at what spatiotemporal location can a natural law be found? Or do natural laws not exist? Edit: I take it that "somewhere" cannot be omnipresent, a...
I'd one day maybe smell flesh burning, turn my head around, and see my arm on fire. Or, maybe, even worse: see a loved one's arm on fire. No physical ...
And what duck-rabbit hole did you pull that out of? I’m not the one claiming that if thoughts don’t have mass they then don’t exist, remember. As a re...
Talk about rhetorical bulshitology. What does the theory of evolution visually look like? How can one quantify its mass in principle? Your answer: "I'...
Yup. You can empirically investigate - such as by visually seeing, touching, or smelling - thoughts such as the theory of evolution? Because empirical...
Well with some empirical investigation and added resources I could give you at least a ball park figure. How can one go about quantitatively approxima...
Yup. Reminds me of hypotheses such as that of the block universe, of causal determinism, or of everything being physical, all of which are are so popu...
As to being mixed with other stuff, the same can be said of any physical thing, like a rock. You know, fields, quanta that fly in and out, and such. B...
Yup. Thanks for the reply. No doubting what you say. At the same time, I'm one to believe that we ought not allow cultural prejudices to cloud our jud...
OK, you. Given that you also find the premise true, let me know what the quantifiable mass of "the theory of evolution" is, or at least how to go abou...
:lol: :ok: :cool: If the mind is physical, then thoughts are physical. If a thought is physical, it consists of physical energy. If physical energy ca...
Couldn't the same be said of causal determinism, a block universe, and physicalism? (For what it's worth, from what I recall, materialism was addresse...
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