Philosophically meaningless. Scientifically meaningful. QFT, for instance, suggests "the world" is a vacuum fluctuation – brute fact – and that, insof...
You ask three different questions, then say answer "a very simple question". Wtf are you on? :sweat: Whether or not I am / you are "sure" about being ...
Both Russell and Copleston would have profitted from studying Spinoza. Copleston's 'Thomist metaphysics' is almost painfully incoherent (vide Witty). ...
What does it matter? He called a phenomenon an "atom" that is, in fact, not "uncuttable" (i.e. indivisible) as classical atomists conceptualized it. D...
There is something rather than (just) nothing because in the beginning there was nothing to prevent something from spontaneously coming to be (i.e. BB...
Why do you ask? I've not claimed or implied that I "doubt" I'm conscious. As for whether it's "possible" I'm not conscious, clearly I am not conscious...
Well, I don't think it's controversial to begin with this fact: 'mind is what (primate, elephantidae, cetacean, cephalopod ...) CNS-brains do' – adapt...
:100: Maybe Woofarer is unflattering but it's not an ad hominem. And since I've never said nor inplied this, I guess we agree on something. Of course ...
'Life' is, at the very least, a dissipative system constituted by self-replicating machinery 'energized' by a still low enough entropy-gradient. In ot...
Non sequitur. I studied physics as a engineering undergrad in the early 1980s and fail to see the relevance of your post to anything I've posted or th...
The way legs are "far more real" than dancing ... if by real they mean things to the exclusion of events or activities which, of course, makes no sens...
I've not resorted to ad hominems but have attacked your statements as mostly erroneous, confused and often fallacious. As for "insults", truth hurts i...
Yeah, sure, and classical atomism does not theoretically posit "fundamental material particles" because its not a scientiific model but a conceptual m...
Wtf are talking about? Your scientific illiteracy is tiresome only because you lean so heavily on it and show no willingness or ability to think philo...
What question are you talking about? My previous post was in reply to you advocating "JTB", Fool, which I thiink does not apply to (formal, scientific...
Sound reasoning suffices to exorcise your appeals to authoritative woo, sir. For instance, what part of the post linked below can't you grasp? The ana...
Gotcha. No sense in troubling yourself with what apparently you don't or can't understand. (I recommended multiple thinkers to corroborate one another...
If that works for you, run with it, Fool. As I understand it, however, philosophy proposes definitions, descriptions, interpretations, criteria, metho...
IMO what T Clark says about the anachronistic "JTB" word salad is demonstrable true. Knowledge is falsifiable (i.e. fallibilistic), therefore not a ma...
I disagree. QT has only "undermined" John Dalton, not Democritus. This old canard is idealist – anti-realist – preaching-to-the-choir at best. As a re...
:up: People born without limbs also experience phantoms limbs, etc which shows that their brains are hardwired to generate 'phenomenal self models' th...
Oh okay. In the context in which I used the terms, exemplar is a representative example of e.g. "Know Thyself" and avatar is a divine proxy for some i...
It seems to me even that "more" is, in the Socratic sense at least, not completely certain. Knowing ourselves includes knowing we can be – most of our...
I don't understand what you mean here. "Consciousness", I think, denotes sentience. Okay. Do you mean a 'formal possibility'? a 'metaphysical possibil...
(I need to go back and read this thread.) Socrates is a skeptic and fallibilist. "Know Thyself" implies 'to know that one does not know' with complete...
I agree. Besides, wasting time whenever we can is the only adequate reply to time wasting us. :death: :flower: The event horizon is the point of no re...
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