Minding is a metacognitive activity (i.e. strange looping process), and not an entity; it is what an ecology-situated, sufficiently complex brain can ...
Yes, I think so. My take, in sum: https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/857773 This only a subjective statement ... Genetic fallacy. ... j...
E.g. chattal slavery, the industrial revolution, mechanized "total" war, the administrative state, mass media, bourgeois nihilism, etc have, I think, ...
If I did not exist, then this reply to your OP would not exist ... as the universe would have been (become) a different universe. Change any part of t...
:cool: I'm a disutilitarian (i.e. negative consequentialist) too. The moral facts of (1) useless suffering and (2) fear of suffering are both (A) expe...
My guess is that he would have concluded, as Einstein & Penrose have, that QM is an incomplete physical theory (à la "Schrödinger's Cat") because it i...
:up: :up: Without grounds to do so, such challenges, or questioning, is, at best, idle. You've not provided any compelling grounds which throw how eit...
Non-existence, however, includes "good" ... I don't see any reason to accept this "definition". "Should exist" implies a contradiction from the negati...
Here's my take on pre-linguistic / pre-cognitive "moral sensibility" from a 2022 thread Do animals have morality? https://thephilosophyforum.com/discu...
"At a societal level", in terms of governing (i.e. maintaining order and security of equitable, public goods), I think the public concern is not moral...
Here are a couple of articles on vat-grown meat that can reduce animal suffering today: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/dec/08/worlds-lar...
Yes, but that "truth" does not entail that "non-veganism" is immoral or necessarily so. Imo, eating either non-industrial or vat-grown/3-d printed mea...
Imho, "opinions" are usually not "right or wrong" and, in most circumstances, more useless than useful. Btw, sophists concern themselves with "opinion...
"Personal pain and suffering" define you? E.g. friendship (vide Epicurus), solidarity (vide Camus) ... Well, unless you're an Advaita Vedantist, you a...
In other words, "the God of the pews" doesn't hold up under logical or metaphysical scrutiny and therefore is ontologically eliminable; the speculativ...
:100: Suppose each thing is always a 'superposition of possibilities' but that measuring a thing tracks, or records, only one possibility at a time wh...
Afaik, the vast majority of religious believers are not "classical" theists in practice and instead worship a personal God (or gods). As Pascal says R...
It's consistent with historical usages of Hindus (e.g. Vedanta), philosophers (e.g. the absolute, the infinite), Scholastics & Thomists (e.g. necessar...
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