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This is true only if we decide to leave out objective reality in our logic. If you base logic on what really is/occurs around you, than it is 'specula...
October 07, 2019 at 16:14
I'm not educated enough on Islam and Islamic law to discuss the question, but I don't really see the connection between Islamic morality and libertari...
October 07, 2019 at 14:10
We have written laws, law enforcement, we have education - this is sufficient. If someone needs a more restricted code of behavior, they can have writ...
October 07, 2019 at 10:11
I believe there's the following gradation of moral sense in men. Morality inherent in human nature (not in everyone), natural law, morality of reason,...
October 07, 2019 at 08:23
It's a 10% language issue, and 90% ideology issue, roughly. So, never mind.
October 06, 2019 at 15:20
In my opinion, the principle of non-aggression is rather sufficient, even though to some it might seem empty and lack content. In other words, it forb...
October 06, 2019 at 15:14
This time put squarely, I can tell you what's really gobbledygooky https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_equations_in_quantum_mechanics A pretty load,...
October 06, 2019 at 05:11
I don't claim that there's energy on its own, energy is a state of matter - kinetic and potential, which materializes in motion. Information is also m...
October 05, 2019 at 19:54
The point of the subject was to relate the question of freedom, free will to the problem of political order. Libertarianism should assume the narrower...
October 05, 2019 at 16:11
@"Terrapin Station" This reductionist view is rather weak for my liking. There are lots of arguments, but simply put the structure is 1(entire reality...
October 05, 2019 at 15:18
In that case, what is your opinion from your point of view. What is free will, if we have one. Is it important? Do libertarians talk nonsense, especia...
October 05, 2019 at 14:49
So where, in your opinion, these first principles reside? Has being or existence layers that are beyond physics? Doesn't theology discuss things that ...
October 05, 2019 at 14:44
Simply put, there are two general types of causality - energy shifts and will. Energy can have a simple form or a complex structure processing informa...
October 05, 2019 at 14:32
Freedom, I think, is an inherent property of consciousness that could be defined as a relation between an area and a line drawn through it. Our consci...
October 05, 2019 at 14:18
My usage should be obvious - there is a physical world and a metaphysical one. The physical world is sensory, or empirical, whereas metaphysical is su...
October 05, 2019 at 13:22
What I believe is just a provisional theory or idea. It is not a religious faith, rather an intellectual curiosity. My intellectual template is an opp...
October 03, 2019 at 14:08
Wouldn't agree that chaos is smth 'before' smth else. Chaos is not passive as some kind of unformed material. God is not beyond it. God = Chaos, it pr...
October 03, 2019 at 12:39
Mind/body distinction is too old fashioned, because the situation is more complicated than we perceive. I distinguish between the conscious picture of...
October 03, 2019 at 11:23
The meaning of this symbol is multifaceted and allusion to time is just one of them. To me it indicates time, space, matter, consciousness and so on. ...
October 01, 2019 at 18:43
Science could destroy humanity in many ways: moral decadence, power combined with stupidity and Ego, a technological disaster, profiteering, war, tech...
September 28, 2019 at 05:11
The best way to know how close we are to 100% is the scale of action. Civilization would at least be of a transgalactic scale, with the technologies o...
September 27, 2019 at 08:27
If we assume physicalism as true, 'matter' has two facets that are different in many ways. There's bosonic matter and fermionic matter in quantum phys...
September 27, 2019 at 08:22
Put it simply how I see it - mind is brain and brain is both a structure and a process. So we have two structures and two processes: brain/mind struct...
September 26, 2019 at 21:15
The words 'good' and 'ethical' have a narrow meaning and a broad understanding, by which is meant a theory, a system of norms based on it and so on. Y...
September 26, 2019 at 19:48
I understand ethics only as a consideration in ones action not to do gratuitous harm to anyone/anything. Why we should/shouldn't do harm? Because we p...
September 26, 2019 at 19:31
Cognition is both a function and an action. The function emerges from the mind, but acts on and of reality, by doing something to it, perceiving how i...
September 26, 2019 at 19:13
I can partly agree with you, because there may be two kinds of moral sentiment - innate and instilled. What is innate is not easily perverted, whereas...
September 26, 2019 at 18:50
@"TheMadFool" Ethics, morality is inseparable from the question of free will and freedom. Human beings are free to choose to do good or bad. Generally...
September 26, 2019 at 15:45
To me the relation is obvious, it depends what morality and ethics are founded on. It may be sentiment, reason, 'reality', ideology, society, some .or...
September 26, 2019 at 15:26
The answer was addressed and dressed - it would follow from moral relativism and disrespect to life, inequality, technological supremacy of superpower...
September 26, 2019 at 14:49
@"Echarmion" By moral values I mean ethics in scientific research, the lack of which causes disrespect to life. Also, political, economic, and social ...
September 26, 2019 at 14:19
In my opinion, the concept of infinity is dubious, because it is a mixture of an operand and an operator. If you ask why, the answer is the following....
September 26, 2019 at 08:43
In my opinion, the basic symbol necessary to understand consciousness is Ouroboros. The Head is the recipient soul-substance and the Tail is sensory i...
September 25, 2019 at 13:34
To me reality is more than just a word. As a word 'reality' is a channel to 'aletheia'. Words have two functions: a) to connect two different, communi...
September 25, 2019 at 03:09
I doubt if there are primitive 'thingers' in philosophy today, even in phenomenology, having a specific method of analysis. Therefore the concept of a...
September 24, 2019 at 10:46
I don't think theories equate to realities - what reality is behind our phenomenal perceptions are our ideas and constructs that are to be believed in...
September 23, 2019 at 09:53
Let's say you are right for now. My hand remains functionally the same, although it constantly changes. However, we could assess more precisely how mu...
September 22, 2019 at 20:31
I suggest you looking at your hand for 10 secs and than tell me in how many ways it 'fluxes' in you head? :) And if it 'fluxes', what mysterious forms...
September 22, 2019 at 18:45
If it is your opinion, it needs further elaboration, namely, to discern the thing-centric perspective and the action-centric perspective. I understand...
September 22, 2019 at 17:25
To me 'existence' is simply 'extence', therefore to me it is inseparable from a 'state of being'. Before utility, there must be some sort of 'actualit...
September 22, 2019 at 15:53
'Mind is existence' means only 'mind is existence', therefore these words are not equated, but rather related as a part and the whole. If the whole of...
September 22, 2019 at 10:48
To view language as 'representalist' or 'nonrepresentalist' is not enough. I think that in addition to that we must regard it as a spectrum of 'substa...
September 21, 2019 at 20:02
The concept of 'existence' may mean different things, but I mainly see two of them - existence inside the mind and existence outside of the mind. What...
September 20, 2019 at 22:27