Harry Hindu

Why do we keep quoting philosophers from 1000s of years ago, when it is likely that they wouldn't say the same things today given the knowledge we hav...

Name-calling isn't an argument against anything I said. The fact that you resort to name-calling just shows that you don't have an argument. Thanks.

What it seems like you're saying is that we need to think like lower animals which have no concept of their own death, or their future. How is thinkin...

I've never seen a problem with inductive reasoning. Just as we have to account for and explain a different effect occurring than what we predicted wil...

Perfect. So the object's coordinates in space-time can be just as important or even more important than it's other properties depending on the arbitra...

Everyone who has continued this thread for so long should be embarrassed. I already showed long ago that information is related to causation. Informat...

I'm not over-thinking it. Are an object's coordinates in space-time a property of the object, or no? Is the object's position in space-time just as im...

This seems to be a contradiction. You are saying that they occupy two different portions of reality, therefore they can't be the same.

For any two things to be the same (sharing 100% of all properties and attributes) then doesn't that mean that for any two things to be the same they'd...

That wasn't my question. I wanted to know the difference between experiencing awareness and being aware of your experience. And, how can you know that...

What does that even mean - thinking that you are more than what you are - a delusion of grandeur?

The problem I see with this is that human beings from infants avoid cliffs. Ever heard of the visual cliff experiment? This reminds me though of how w...

It seems to me that the experience is awareness. At any point you are conscious, you are aware of something - you are experiencing something. What you...

Sure they mean something to me, just as inches, meters and light-years mean something to me. They are units of measurement. Hours, days, and years are...

I don't see how that is different than what I said.

It's the distinction between supernatural and natural (and artificial and natural) that I'm calling into question. When I think about it, it seems tha...

This is a good post and sums up the other points that have been made on the artificial vs. natural distinction. It seems that most people are saying t...

No, change can exist without measurement. Time is simply another change. Measurements are comparisons of the same type of thing. We measure length by ...

Sure, we can experience length and width and depth without measuring it, yet we still measure things by comparison (this thing feels longer than that ...

Mmmmkay, I wonder how production isn't related to resources as you can't produce anything without resources. Why don't you do a Google search for, "If...

It stems from religious beliefs which I don't share, so I don't believe it is fact. But others do, and I was hoping to get at the distinction between ...

So stars, rocks, water, etc. aren't natural? This seems to be the same thing Apo said. I don't think that minds are a necessary requirement for some t...

But human beings are natural things themselves. It makes no sense to call the things that they create, "artificial". As I have already pointed out to ...

What exactly is self-organizing? What exactly organizes itself based on it's own properties and without help from something else? Human beings and oth...

I thought we both agreed that you can experience change without experiencing time. Change is change. Time is a measurement of change. You can experien...

But you didn't add to what I said because you seem to imply that we can have experiences of time, when I said that we don't experience time. We experi...

I don't see how it is meaningless to say that you have the freedom to define your own meaning. It seems to me that you find it necessary for someone, ...

I never said you can't experience change without a measurement. You can experience change, but unless you measure it, then you can't say how much time...

Fact: The GDP of the world is $16,100. This means that if all the resources of the world were divided equally for every citizen of the world, they'd o...

What about time simply being a measurement of change? That is what "duration" is - a measurement of change using other simultaneous change to compare ...

So you're asking why can't we all be like the Borg?

I could say the same thing about Leon Wieseltier.

To say that there is "indirectness" is to imply that there could be "directness". What would it be like to have "direct" awareness or knowledge, as op...

Aren't you stating a fact that we see signs? How did you get at that fact if not through signs? How else can one get at facts?

Why would we need a medium of exchange if everyone had access to everything they need? If everyone contributed to society in some way by providing a g...

First of all, the question of the place of science in human life is a scientific question because you use evidence, observations and falsification in ...

Corpses aren't alive and therefore all the bodily processes have ceased, which includes the nervous system and how it feels. You're still getting hung...

So, if there wasn't anyone looking at the tree rings, then the tree rings don't mean the age of the tree? What you are saying is that there isn't any ...

My position isn't dualism. It wasn't me that was saying the mind and body are separable. It was MU. I was asking those questions of MU to get at how a...

There were several questions above that you avoided. I'm trying to get at WHY you think that your mind isn't part of your body. You simply saying that...

Sure we do. What are delusions if not intended beliefs that are meant to cover up the truth that is so depressing?

Really? I thought feelings are always part of a body, not a subject. I think that is the reason why you can't escape using the word, "subjective". Wha...

When inside the car and the car moves, do you not move with the car? A radio is inside the car and can be removed. Does that make the radio not part o...

Perfect, then we we agree that meaning has to do with causation. A cause can be an intent, or some other cause, like the growth of a tree throughout t...

When you say, "Bring me the cup." and all they learned was the action of pointing to the cup when the sound, "cup" is heard, then why don't they just ...

It means that it is part of my body and not yours or anyone else - just like your nervous system is part of your body and not part of mine. Saying tha...

Exactly!

It's not the use of words that is meaning, as the same string of words can mean different things. Meaning is tied to the cause of the words being spok...

If something is internal, how does that mean that it isn't part of the external world? How is it that someone's feelings can have an effect on you, if...

That isn't an argument against anything I said. It seems that you can't answer simple questions.