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Like I said, Coyne was a tiny, itty-bitty fraction of my input in this thread. Why can't we have it out here on the topic you brought up? Also, why ma...
October 12, 2017 at 20:11
So, what you're saying is that you're lazy? That can't be the case because I've seen you engage others and attempt to persuade those that don't want t...
October 12, 2017 at 20:07
I'm not arguing for naive realism. I'm not saying that we see the world as it really is, or that we could ever see the world as it really is. Seeing i...
October 12, 2017 at 11:43
Yeah. Coyne was part of one sentence in my previous post (the rest of which was on-topic) to you and that is the one thing you focused on. You're not ...
October 12, 2017 at 11:31
Information is the relationship between cause and effect.
October 11, 2017 at 13:21
I'm not sure what it is you are asking for - a definition of causality, or a definition of information. It seems to me that when you define one, you a...
October 11, 2017 at 13:07
I never said you denied the "world out there". Idealists don't deny a "world out there" either. It is what keeps them from falling off the cliff into ...
October 11, 2017 at 12:59
I wasn't. Mindless, natural processes do something. Natural selection is a mindless process, which means that it has no agency. The theory of evolutio...
October 11, 2017 at 11:29
I think he means that they can interact with each other and establish causal relationships. I think he means that the information, which is a relation...
October 10, 2017 at 21:58
No. It means what caused it. The physical mark would be the effect of more than one cause interacting over time, and that is what it can be used to me...
October 10, 2017 at 21:47
No, Apo. I get your point, and I know that you are getting mine. I think you are trying to avoid answering hard questions. How can something be functi...
October 10, 2017 at 21:30
I don't see how that answers my question.
October 10, 2017 at 20:24
Who decided that no person needs to be born at all?
October 10, 2017 at 14:01
What is the relationship between the reality and the virtual reality? If there isn't one, then you are arguing for solipsism, as there would be no bea...
October 10, 2017 at 13:58
How can something be functional, or useful, if it doesn't have some degree of truth to it? To say that there is anything out there that our mind repre...
October 10, 2017 at 11:34
I wasn't. Again, is there an actual three-masted Greek ship on the horizon? If there isn't then how can you even say that any structure (flags, a seri...
October 10, 2017 at 11:27
I don't see how "reality is information" necessarily entails idealism. I don't see information as mind dependent. Minds process information, which has...
October 10, 2017 at 03:02
It is physical because the cause is physical. Is there an actual three-masted Greek ship on the horizon? Yes, or no? Is that not the cause of the whol...
October 10, 2017 at 02:55
The question is absurd. First of all, what does "physical" mean and how is it different from the "mental"? You start off on the wrong foot by assuming...
October 09, 2017 at 11:30
Your post is full of subjective terms like, "wrong" and "better" and "needs", etc., that seem to be applied objectively - as if you think that things ...
October 09, 2017 at 10:53
"Irrational" has a definition that is more widely accepted than "evil". Irrational is defined as not logical. Evil is often defined as profoundly immo...
October 08, 2017 at 14:41
Well, what does it mean to advocate if not to make others believe as you do? That's ironic. The very thing that you want to eliminate would be the ans...
October 08, 2017 at 14:31
It would also be the asymptote of truth. To say otherwise would be saying that philosophy doesn't attempt to create explanations that are consistent w...
October 06, 2017 at 11:42
The goal of wanting to experience the taste of donuts comes from the stored experience of eating a donut and you enjoying it. We all seek to have plea...
October 06, 2017 at 11:35
Exactly. There is no objective moral law or ethical code. Ethics and morality are subjective. What is good or bad is what is helpful or harmful in ach...
October 06, 2017 at 11:20
I don't think anyone has a problem in you making a personal decision to not have any kids. Where the problem arises and where people tend to question ...
October 05, 2017 at 11:46
I mentioned conflicting goals earlier. This is an example of that. You have two conflicting goals. One is that you want to experience the taste of don...
October 05, 2017 at 11:36
As I said, if something is good, it helps you achieve your goal. Your goal would be to seek pleasurable experiences and the food's taste does just tha...
October 04, 2017 at 11:37
Invisible rings don't protect you from infrared cameras, don't provide alibis, and can be found during search warrants. Would things change if everyon...
October 04, 2017 at 11:22
Truth is the degree by which one's hypotheses and theories about the world actually represent the way the world is. This is why, as the OP states, the...
October 03, 2017 at 13:03
Consequences. Someone will beat you to a pulp or call the police eventually. Taking everything you want from everyone is fine in a world of pacifists,...
October 03, 2017 at 12:55
Both of you have switched examples of what it was we were talking about. Don't move the goal posts. The first example was, "This food is good.". The p...
October 03, 2017 at 12:49
Exactly. Once we switch to speaking objectively, we switch to stating truths about the way things are - the way reality actually is. The subject is an...
October 02, 2017 at 15:28
Only if the speaker is a solipsist and doesn't believe in other minds who think, "Blue is the best colour", or "Green is the best colour". How can the...
October 02, 2017 at 15:27
No. It's Harry Hinduan. I don't really get this response. Are you disagreeing with the way that I have defined "values" and "meaning"? It seems that y...
October 02, 2017 at 15:03
Intentions, goals and reasons are all the same thing. Intentions/Goals/Reasons can be "internal" in that they are predictions and predictions only exi...
October 01, 2017 at 13:07
Yet another objective statement about some state-of-affairs. "That's how I am" is an objective statement.
October 01, 2017 at 12:39
"This food tastes good" would refer to a state of affairs where this food actually does taste good, or else how could you even say it and what you say...
October 01, 2017 at 12:37
This is ignoring all the other goals you accomplish by accomplishing the one goal you have in mind currently. You can accomplish other goals without r...
September 29, 2017 at 15:39
If the scientific theories that the bike and smartphone were wrong, would you still be able to text or get some exercise using these devices? I didn't...
September 29, 2017 at 15:20
Do you see your contradiction? Is science about explaining the world? If "Yes", then Aristotle was doing science by explaining the world. Is science a...
September 29, 2017 at 15:07
No. It makes the use of technology a science. Technology is a tool that science uses for testing scientific theories.
September 29, 2017 at 15:04
It's not an observation, but a prediction based on previous observations. Any good scientific theory makes predictions about what you will find, or wh...
September 29, 2017 at 14:59
The theory being tested is that when a stick is inserted into a termite mound and removed, termites will be on the stick. Now let's test the theory by...
September 29, 2017 at 14:52
If science is only about explaining the world, then you'd be right. But you've also said in this thread that you are referring to the modern history o...
September 29, 2017 at 14:51
Of course it does. How can you make such a claim without using technology (like telescopes)? And how can you test such a claim without using technolog...
September 29, 2017 at 14:10
Science, as the word is commonly used, implies these things: first, the gathering of knowledge through observation; second, the classification of such...
September 29, 2017 at 14:01
I'm not sure I understand the question. You can claim to feel a certain way. That would be an objective statement about some state-of-affairs. If some...
September 29, 2017 at 13:32
How can one with a finite intellect ever hope to possess free will? If what we know is limited, then our choices will be limited. The existence of God...
September 29, 2017 at 13:13
What else could they be making a statement about? Any claim of how things are, or a statement made that is implied to have some truth to it, would be ...
September 29, 2017 at 13:04