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DrOlsnesLea

['Member']Joined: May 08, 2020 at 07:25Last active: December 14, 2022 at 02:072 discussions54 comments
Location: Metropolitan-Oslo, Norway

Bio

Industrialist, Composer and Author

Der Spitze Doctor. Tenacious, Focused, Hard-working, Disciplined, Intelligent, Intellectual, Nice, Easy-going, Balanced, Principled!
- I/E-NTJ (MBTI)

Favourite Philosopher

Kant, Ricoeur, Hempel, Popper, Poincare, Aquinas,

Favourite Quotations

"Chance favors the prepared mind" - Pasteur
"One person with a belief is a social power equal to ninety-nine who have only interests." - Mill

Discussions (2)

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In: Gettier Problem.  — view comment
I think the Gettier paper is so lost for inquiry, that it appears naive. When the driver thinks he's correct in seeing a barn merely from driving past...
November 11, 2022 at 18:45
In: Philoso-psychiatry  — view comment
I think it's fair to say that current psychiatry is able to diagnose itself and more so too. It's philosophy that's the output of the chemical mix in ...
October 15, 2022 at 08:13
In: Logical Necessity and Physical Causation  — view comment
Let me say something: We have a living philosophy of causality in how the sciences evolve. Physics for how causes and effects in physics, chemistry fo...
May 13, 2022 at 01:57
In: Are there any scientific grounds for god?  — view comment
"Are there any scientific grounds for god?" Yes. God is proven by radio-astronomy and radiological data-interpretation pictured on a tablet-pc or othe...
April 10, 2022 at 11:04
In: Madness is rolling over Afghanistan  — view comment
I think that if Taliban proves to be the will of the people in Afghanistan, then there's no other way than to be friends with Taliban and see to it th...
August 14, 2021 at 08:32
In: If God was omnibenevolent, there wouldn’t be ... Really?  — view comment
The only reasonable conclusion is that there is God by science given radio-astronomy and operationalized God signals through advanced radiology on pc-...
August 13, 2021 at 06:01
In: 'War' - what is the good of war ?  — view comment
:up: :up: :clap:
July 29, 2021 at 23:01
In: 'War' - what is the good of war ?  — view comment
For a "Philosophy of War", perhaps we should read it as Just War Theory. SEP has this for war: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/war/. Just War Theor...
July 29, 2021 at 18:13
In: Avoiding War - Philosophy of Peace  — view comment
Thanks for the replies. On the premise of increasing (lawful) happiness along with security arrangements as you noted above, I think it's important to...
July 28, 2021 at 02:13
In: To Theists  — view comment
1. I've tried to make the best use of my senses and by them, I've come to believe in God (Christianity). I think you classify it as "personal religiou...
July 26, 2021 at 23:21
In: Why the ECP isn’t a good critique of socialism  — view comment
The Soviet Union never respected human rights (UDHR) and probably didn't follow much rule of law, invading every privacy to ensure "equality". Corrupt...
July 18, 2021 at 12:57
In: What is Philosophy  — view comment
To decide on "pluralism", I say that science lights the way in such a fashion that an Atheist physicalist can become, by science, both religious and a...
July 15, 2021 at 04:31
In: What is Philosophy  — view comment
I would certainly say that scientific theories exist and that the author implies description of reality by them. Of course, the theories enter the dis...
July 14, 2021 at 17:25
In: The Substance Dualism Has Been Proven - Check this out  — view comment
I recommend you read Donald Davidson's paper for Monism. It's quite a thrill but demanding. Others who want to join discussion? All the best. Edit: An...
July 14, 2021 at 02:34
In: The Substance Dualism Has Been Proven - Check this out  — view comment
Some references and a cue. Scientific Realism (SEP): https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/scientific-realism/ Thermography (Thermal Imaging, Wikipedia):...
July 14, 2021 at 01:29
In: What is Philosophy  — view comment
Why not simply scientific realism? Science comes down to objective description no matter what that's being studied!
July 14, 2021 at 00:29
In: Psychiatry Paradox  — view comment
Should we discuss brain chemistry here? :chin:
June 23, 2021 at 16:28
In: Survey of philosophers  — view comment
The deepest intuition of a mentally healthy person informs us that we're not attached to anything. Thus we're not brains-in-vats. IMO.
June 23, 2021 at 14:27
In: Conflict Addiction  — view comment
Again, I think conflict addiction is for real and that science can solve this by providing treatment to people who are suffering from schizophrenia, m...
June 18, 2021 at 17:05
In: The death paradox  — view comment
Why not this way? Socrates gave up his mortal body, I.e., Socrates died. He now lives on as ghost. Any ghost hunting by "ghost radar" made possible wi...
June 18, 2021 at 16:15
In: The KCA and free will  — view comment
Libertarian Free Will does not imply outside causality, only that it's anomalous how it all works out. However, LFW is supported by the intuitions for...
April 23, 2021 at 19:02
In: Is the only way to live in peace to strive to be amoral?  — view comment
It's not so easy. Bad people are more likely to do more wrongdoing and the worst people may not be able to do any good at all because of their tendenc...
April 01, 2021 at 01:41
In: What are we doing? Is/ought divide.  — view comment
Rephrasing Ought in a Sentence - Ought-less Language Rewriting of ought: An action is defined by a rule. This rule is in relation to a certain conditi...
March 17, 2021 at 11:18
In: Can you justify morality without religion?  — view comment
There is fair disagreement on capital punishment, euthanasia, abortion among all sorts of people. So what about access to C-pills while we issue the q...
March 17, 2021 at 09:58
In: Can you justify morality without religion?  — view comment
It seems to me very flawed to ignore the big discussion of right and wrong, the legal one. During these 2000 years, there's been a steady development ...
March 14, 2021 at 09:59
In: Is there a logical symbol for 'may include'?  — view comment
You may use Sandwich ?? (Bread ? Cheese) Notation: possibly and intersection. You may consider identity and union too, perhaps. Check this link for no...
February 27, 2021 at 19:23
In: What does morality mean in the context of atheism?  — view comment
FYI: Moral atheists = Humanists. So it's humanism that's the address, not atheism. I happen to think that atheists know this so the question remains.
November 17, 2020 at 12:42
In: Art Therapy! Sense Or Nonsense?  — view comment
Art therapy is nonsense in terms of significance because best practice psychiatry is so superior combined with action to resolve problems in life, I f...
November 04, 2020 at 08:04
In: An argument that our universe is a giant causal loop  — view comment
Still, the God issue may explain the anomaly situation just as much as the soul may explain the anomaly situation of Free Will (vs. Determinism). Just...
October 16, 2020 at 06:26
In: Learning about Epistemology  — view comment
Why not get The Oxford Handbook of Epistemology, 2002, Ed. Paul K Moser at 595 pp.? Only a click away on Kindle. :smile:
July 29, 2020 at 04:30
In: Currently Reading  — view comment
Paul Collier - The Future of Capitalism. Perhaps better than Thomas Piketty.
July 05, 2020 at 15:46
In: Is Not Over-population Our Greatest Problem?  — view comment
There is reason to believe that all the crime, evil blocks rationality to take steps against Overpopulation. Besides, women are squeezed out of their ...
June 30, 2020 at 01:58
In: Does Philosophy of Religion get a bad rep?  — view comment
Just in case you don't find enough PoR here, you may want to check out "Debating Christianity and Religion" here: https://debatingchristianity.com/
June 26, 2020 at 21:48
In: Power determines morality  — view comment
If might was so right all would still be rules by might, but to the opposite... Today, we go to great lengths to win people's hearts and minds by bein...
June 25, 2020 at 18:05
In: Power determines morality  — view comment
I disagree with the OP. You can see morality of a person in a number of ways. Inner and outer bio-markers, for example, are sets of objective material...
June 24, 2020 at 14:38
In: Is value defined by feeling?  — view comment
Note on training of the nervous system by cognition. Emotions change. Therefore, Kantian ethics is still superior? Keywords are information and thinki...
June 19, 2020 at 10:59
In: Is inaction morally wrong?  — view comment
Gotcha! :lol:
June 16, 2020 at 03:03
In: Is inaction morally wrong?  — view comment
What about the systematic genocide by repeated lever switch choice? Say there's a team of 5 on the track and one in the trolley driving it and they ki...
June 15, 2020 at 13:04
In: Honor Ethics  — view comment
You may want to look up this link, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honour. In connection with Kantian ethics, one may want to coin honor with its oppo...
June 12, 2020 at 00:11
In: Mysticism: Why do/don’t you care?  — view comment
Mysticism. Why I don't care! Superseded by: * Philosophy (especially phenomenology) * Sciences * Paranormal sciences (also paranormal psychology, thou...
June 10, 2020 at 10:39
In: Why does the brain destroy itself and its body?  — view comment
If you remove "lighter" schizophrenic people from the equation, the whole thing starts to look more like immortality. It's just that it's not too comm...
June 02, 2020 at 22:00
In: God given rights. Do you really have any?  — view comment
This is not true, I think. There are some experts who claim God has been identified by modern radio-telescopes, radio-astronomy at the very fringes of...
May 30, 2020 at 19:57
In: The Scientific Worldview  — view comment
Let's separate natural water (with minerals and salts) and laboratory water (H2O). Further, the balanced formula for laboratory water: H2O + H2O <-> H...
May 29, 2020 at 22:00
In: What on earth is energy?  — view comment
Let's, at least, start with the photons of the electro-magnetic spectrum. You find energy there, for sure. Photons, Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.or...
May 20, 2020 at 23:36
In: An unusual psychiatric case. Mentally ill or something more profound?  — view comment
Are you young? Try to understand the opposite, that everything is running as normal and that you have a feeling that this is going to be a normal day....
May 20, 2020 at 12:32
In: Natural Rights  — view comment
As much as Natural Rights, here is one legal account of Human Rights in USA: "Human rights in the United States" "Treaties ratified" "The U.S. has sig...
May 17, 2020 at 12:11
In: When will we get over pot?  — view comment
Cannabis provides the best laughs ever! IMO. The laughing is so strong and to the heart that I remember it to this day, more than 20 years later. Grea...
May 14, 2020 at 18:07
In: Psych question: What is the root cause of depression?  — view comment
There is depression on both sides of the scale: depression straight and schizophrenia with depression and these 2 cases are quite different. Other tha...
May 14, 2020 at 17:54
In: Relinquishing solipsim.  — view comment
One harder notion of Solipsism, yet not so extreme: So let's assume that the impression of nature, of beauty, of colors have qualia to them in such a ...
May 11, 2020 at 23:38
In: Moral Virtue Vs Moral Obligation  — view comment
Perhaps there is a loop: To improve on democratic laws and regulations all the time (Kantian Ethics) and so to achieve a greater being-in-nature, a st...
May 11, 2020 at 14:03
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