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So you are saying, to believe you exist is absurd, illogical and or irrational? So you go around telling everyone, you don't exist. When someone you g...

Sorry I must be thick because I just don't understand this sentence.

So when I am hammering in a nail it is in fact my brain that is doing it, not my arms, hands and hammer?

Why would anyone believe something they know to be absurd, illogical or irrational? Do you?

As usual in these discussion we fail the see the duality of reality. Human character is both altruistic and egotistic simultaneously as the human body...

. Wrong... It is not meant to affect what God does. It is meant to effect what you do.

The brain may not be conscious. But if the body stays alive, the body can be considered conscious. I think we confuse consciousness with self-consciou...

Considered by whom?

Please put in the quote that you are referring to.

That might be true, but if we are brains in a vat we will never find out.

This would be like saying I can have an enjoyable conversation with myself. It is possible. I think you'd need to imbibe in drugs though.

In Dutch the word 'meaning' is the same as 'desiring'. So you get the sentence: The meaning of life is the desiring of life. "De zin van het leven is ...

Quantum mechanics providestwo fundamental examples of the duality between position and momentum, the Heisenberg uncertainty principle ?x?p ? ?/2 stati...

It is just another form of 'idol' worshiping. As old as religion.

You can say anything you like. That does not mean you believe it.

You could 'claim' you had seen these things only if you had indeed really (imagined) to have seen these things. Otherwise you are just lying. is just ...

Only empiricism is able to make a distinction between belief and knowledge.

As we will never arrive at absolute truths, we will have to suffice with subjective truths of which some are more subjective than others.

[ That was not a claim. That was a joke. Well you just just admitted it was not a claim but a joke. A joke does not have to be believed to exist.

A claim that no-one believes does not exist. A claim has to be believed by someone to exist. And belief in that claim will persist until that person a...

Isn't a meme a culturally transmitted disease? If you are looking for the origin of memes, you need look no further than PR. They are the great purvey...

Anything not necessary for survival can be considered a drug.

Without fear/desire you would not get out of bed in the morning.

Wall-E is fiction and Startrek illusion. We are pretty much stuck on this ball of clay with 7 billion and rising and we'll have to deal with that. Elo...

Yes 'usefulness' is a property of truth.If the 'truth' does not contain 'usefulness'(i.e information) it can not be considered 'truth'. Usefulness is ...

And a clarification serve the same purpose as a justification. You can clarify what you believe in and what you disbelieve. You can use clarification ...

Bartricks has problems with the English language. I suggest he take up knitting as a hobby.

For something to be able to react to a signal it must by definition be 'conscious' of it. The general public has a extreme exclusive concept of consci...

It is a fallacy to believe only the (human) brain is conscious.

Why argue so convoluted. Our sensory organs transmit the signal by means of a biochemical electrical charge and our brains are able to interpret that ...

Do you always contradict yourself in the same sentence?

If you don't have a opinion on a subject how are you to philosophize about it? And a clarification serves the same purpose as a justification.

Tell me one belief that you hold that you do not have a justification for.

The TV does not register light. The TV does not react to light.

You believe we are so different to chimps that we have absolutely no way to understand them? Well lets stop all animal research then. What a waste of ...

sometimes we can have knowledge without a justification So are you going to retract that statement?

Yes I just make pronouncements. And if people disagree I engage with them and try to clarify my position to the best of my ability.

You can call it anything you like. I call as I see it. The camera is conscious of light, the TV is conscious of the signal it receives from the camera...

Just because you believe they are not justified to hold a certain belief does not mean they hold unjustified beliefs. What a solipsistic creature you ...

Yes, slicing open a chimps brain and looking at it through a microscope is so much more informative than animal studies. That is the best way to figur...

I have given it in a nutshell. Go back and read it (if you can).

No-one holds a belief they would not justify to you, if you asked them to. They might not (yet) have formulated their justification but they do believ...

The TV is conscious of the signal it receives from the camera. The camera is conscious of the light it receives from the TV.

Dyslexia is a problem many people suffer from. Nothing to be ashamed of.

Oh dear, we are getting prickly aren't we? Isn't past your bedtime?

Okay. I think in that case. 'Can not be known to be false' would have sounded better.

That means you do have to have a justification for your knowledge. Knowledge without justification does not exist. If you believe something, you will ...

There is nothing wrong with my grammar. You might be a little dyslexic. Wrong. A belief that may be false, may be known to be false.

You should learn to read and see that those 2 sentences have a completely different meaning.

If you believe only the (human) brain can be conscious, you are applying anthropomorphism.