Not necessarily, and if time really were cyclical that would be a problem for life just as much as heat death would be, because there was a time when ...
Yes, living things are made of matter. But not all matter is living, so yes there is a distinction. Living is a thing that matter can do, but not all ...
Funny enough, Cantor did think there was a number larger than any conceivable (or inconceivable) number, which he did identify with God: the Absolute ...
I just realized that I misread your "panpsychism" as "pantheism" and I guess wrote that word in my own response by mistake too. Please substitute "pan...
No individual gluon is alive, but all living things we know of are made of them (and other things -- the focus on gluons specifically was kind of a jo...
The bit you elided there in the "", "...that I was poetically personifying...", is the answer to your question. Saying "reason loses" is a poetic way ...
I didn't say anything about material stuff. But in any case, reason isn't a stuff, it's an activity, that I was poetically personifying, which activit...
Panpsychism is a position on the separate question of what God is (or would be, if he existed). One can take any of the aforementioned positions on an...
What makes whom the right person or not? I disagree completely. It could even just be pinned to their mother’s refrigerator and it would still be art....
Dualism vs dualism: whoever wins, reason loses. Though with property dualism reason loses slightly less, I guess? (There is only one kind of substance...
There definitely does not exist anything that should reasonably count as God, and most of those things could not possibly exist, although there defini...
They’re positions on different axes, not different positions on the same axis. One axis has: I believe God exists. (theism) I don’t believe God exists...
I agree that it’s also very important to be able to feel about yourself that you’re good enough already — and to let other people know that they’re go...
:up: Although the way I would phrase more or less the same idea is that “framing” something makes it art: presenting it to an audience for their consi...
Would you feel that still if you tried and succeeded? Or only if you failed? Assuming the latter, that’s the point of adopting the “try just in case” ...
Seems like every popular leftist finite ordinal is coming out as trans these days. Pretty soon they’ll make it illegal to be a cis finite ordinal at a...
I’d say that things can be nourishing to a greater or lesser degree, so some things can be better or worse as sources of nourishment go. Something tha...
Similar to your example, I get frustrated when people ask for a definitive yes or no answer to something I’m not sufficiently confident about, and won...
Yeah, that’s why I thought they might be related. Definitely wingnuts. While there are certain a fair share of anti-science woo peddlers on the left t...
Something timeless is something independent of the popular fads or trends of any given time period. Someone continually reinventing themselves success...
It's not only interpersonal connections that make life meaningful, but any connection. Teaching and helping other people are indeed half of the ways t...
Think about space for comparison. There isn't a place that is the first place, with a second place next to that, and a third place further in the same...
They have nothing to do with each other, and you haven't said anything here about pantheism. Pantheism is a view that the entirety of the universe tak...
Right, and I get that, and even agree with it. I just don't see what that has to do with theism or atheism; it seems like one could take that same pri...
Because it’s scary to think about so people avoid thinking about it whenever they can. There are a lot of ways on both a personal and societal level t...
I'm definitely not trying to; if anything, the opposite. My point here is that you're already a moral nihilist if you think there's no objective moral...
So how does being a theist help in that situation? They'd do that if you refused for religious reasons too, right? I totally get the awfulness of tota...
I don’t want to make this thread all about debating your choice, but I feel the need to note that you can change ethical principles out of strategic c...
I'm pretty much constantly making minor refinements, elaborations, etc. The most recent of those worth mentioning was the realization, some time in th...
In an if-then relationship, the antecedent is sufficient for the consequent, and the consequent is necessary for the antecedent. So when one says "if ...
And the only ultimate explanation for why "observation is reality" is because it looks like it is. In both cases we're appealing to our experiences: e...
So you believe that: It is the case that X because It is the case that Y and It is the case that if Y then X Why do you believe those latter two thing...
That is actually the standard argument against “race realism” (i.e. the argument that race is a social construct): none of the usual racial categories...
How is that any different from the infinite regress that comes with “is” questions? At some point you just say “it just looks like it’s that way!” Obs...
There is a new theory under development that replaces that set of different fields I talked about with a single field made up of a kind of hypercomple...
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