Okay, so we're just talking about knowledge then. In that case, what do you care if all you know is your own existence? Does the taste of a strawberry...
I think the mistake would be the opposite: if he meant "any one", as in if there is this possible world, and I say something is possible, then that po...
Wait, what? How is that the case? By "any proposition" does he mean "any one" proposition or "any and all" propositions? Although, I don't like the co...
I can't tell if we're disagreeing or not lol. I'm happy to accept that mathematics describes the relationship between things. In fact, that is the bas...
I believe you're describing what my first intuition was, that both universes are actually mathematical, just at a different level of description and p...
I've been busting my brain over this question for the past several hours now: what makes something mathematical? Is it a level of rigor? Must you reas...
I don't know, tbh. All I'm saying is, given how strange it is, and with how physicists say things of the like, I wouldn't be surprised if it was the c...
I think Black's treatment actually disagrees with this. In the original text, his anti-PII character states: So there is an absolute relative, which i...
Perhaps instrumental good is better than absolute good? Perhaps there is another asymmetry, and that is an asymmetry between the good of experiencing ...
Thanks for the link. I think I spotted a point of contention when he describes the comparisons between pain/pleasure on existence/non-existence. Not g...
Thanks for the reference. I'd be lying if I said I fully understood the argument, but I completely, wholeheartedly, and fundamentally disagree with D3...
I think to enter the classical Experience Machine—where one steps in, doesn't know they're in it, is given artificially simulated experiences, and the...
You mean between the "Identity of Indiscernibles" and the "Indiscernibility of Identicals"? I think I got the right one. And Stanford doesn't explain ...
But are we not describing the universe from the outside? I don't believe indiscernible in this case means indiscernible with respect to an observer. P...
You'll have to forgive me as I've given myself an existential headache reading up on the pessimist views of Benatar, Schopenhauer, and yourself, so I ...
What I intended to do was view his "Ponzi scheme" from a different perspective, and hopefully show how my perspective actually describes a healthy exi...
Thinking out loud here, but do we actually have any moral obligations? Or, in other words, if a particular action is most moral, or the morally right ...
@"schopenhauer1" I visited the wiki and followed a link to a conveniently recent debate where he discussed his ideas. I was surprised and pleased to f...
Minimizing suffering doesn't mean creating a state of minimal suffering, it means avoiding current suffering. The difference is in tense: your perceiv...
If nothing matters, why do you care? Things matter because we have desires, and the thing we desire most fundamentally is to avoid negative emotion. I...
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