Benj96

oh :( I'm sorry if I'm not getting it. I could be being super obtuse rn. Don't want you to feel like you're talking to a wall. Perhaps explain it furt...

Same. Thats a good attitude to have. Having said that, being too influenced by others opinions may render one chasing their tail. Sometimes you gotta ...

I already did. You're conversing with a sentient object currently. Humans are physical objects with awareness. What proof of that do you need exactly,...

The hard problem of consciousness is hard because it tries to unify 2 incompatible things: objective measurement and subjective experience. One method...

as for power corrupting, I don't think power itself corrupts, individuals corrupt, when they become complacent and don't think through the impacts and...

Well hercules and a wealthy business man are not entirely comparable. There are two forms of Power here: direct power - that which comes from one's in...

I think it depends on whether this is a closed system of 100 people, or 100 people in a much larger populous (market) as well as whether the product i...

If they were my family or friend this is probably what I'd tell them to do also. I don't they'd be safe in society.

This is true, probably they woukd be heavily controlled by one person or at most a small group. It's interesting that most likely people would be comp...

True I suppose I jumped the gun a little bit. What I meant to say is if this yes person was just randomly wandering and doing everything they're told ...

I agree. I believe in second chances. People do change/acknowledge community guidelines after a ban has been employed causing them to re-evaluate thei...

I don't see why not. If we consider that every person is equal - has a vote, has inalienable human rights, I don't see why one government couldnt sati...

What conflict? Many people believe "objects have awareness" - whether that's perceptible awareness by us or that awareness is a fundamental part of ma...

There's a word for this "cognitive bias". If humans can only know what human consciousness is, the "what it is like to be" of human experience, it is ...

I think I get you now. The "concept" doesn't exist. Yes I agree. Ideas and concepts don't exist as physical things. If we all decided today to replace...

Well aren't we all objects? We are physical bodies with defined parameters that exist in space. But we are objects that are aware. So are cats, primat...

Are you sure nothing has tableness? I would argue that anything that can be used as a table has tableness. I know it is not an innate natural property...

I think I can. "I am my continued survival". It is self proving in that to "be" I must possess (have) that characteristic of continued survival. The r...

I think in some capacity it does also. In the sense that tables have evolved in their intricacy with the improvement in woodwork, metal and glass tech...

If no one thinks a table exists or rather if no one has ever seen/encountered/made a table does it still exist? Is a table natural or is it a product ...

I agree. If a stone has experience at all it is for sure not the same as a humans. But we are philosophers, stones are not, as far as we can ascertain...

In a dictatorship, the only subjectivity of importance is that if the dictator. Everyone else are mere pawns at the whim of autocracy. A democracy on ...

Are we not inherently biased in that the only form of consciousness we can know is our own? If there were multiple forms of consciousness (such as tha...

That's a very nice view. That the universe is consolidating its subjectivity and that we can further it or oppose it with futility. My question then w...

Well I would say I am a body. My body has a brain - it is one part of my whole body. A brains purpose/ function is to have a conscious awareness. That...

Would this content-less pure awareness continue as the body/material vessel decomposes at death and transfigures/is recycled back into the ecosystem? ...

If they are not the same surely they can be separated? Can we take away ones consciousness without affecting their body in any way? Can we take away o...

Very true Punos. I agree. "harm" is a concept we apply to subjects rather than objects. And yet we can harm by stealing objects, by destroying the env...

Definitely a red flag. Sadly many CEOs, experts in capitalism, tech/data mining, lawyers etc see people as just that - objects to be manipulated to th...

Of course. And that is where ethics begins. A empathiless psychopath dismantles a victim to see what's inside. He/she does it because its interesting ...

what would you suggest in lieu?

Mathematically you can't. As it's formal. But if you apply it to actual reality, if you have 2 different things, they create a third phenomenon - the ...

Quick question. If God doesn't exist, why is it such a persistent archetype of human existence throughout our history as a species? Cultures don't nat...

Firstly, nicely written OP, articulate and well thought out. I'm going to go about this by asking you follow up questions based on what you wrote. Bec...

A very poetic reflection. I like it. Simplicity is indeed beautiful. I don't like to impose restrictions on interpretation for the readers of a microf...

You're right, it's not strictly about the bath, but rather a metaphor.

It is a figure of speech haha dont worry. It's a story about reflection on a long life, and freedom verses responsibility. As well as the changing rol...

I think this has some truth in it. The larger a society gets the more potential for numerous various factions of minorities to develop. All with indiv...

Makes sense. I guess in Christianity its analogous to loving the devil himself.

Yeah true. Much more sustainable. Not as many people would be willing to try and steal it also (if they have a fear of animals or don't know how to ri...

I feel given the likely rough terrain and scattered debris, you'd puncture a tire pretty fast. Not sure if a bicycle is durable enough mode of transpo...

It's interesting to consider that militias and gangs might destroy books and sources of knowledge like civil engineering, construction, medicine etc t...

Haha clever :P

what is true according to humanity is what is currently most justified. However, like many things, in science for example, the justification can be ov...

I sometimes wonder if heat death is merely the transformation of actionable energy (light, thermal, kinetic, chemical etc) - observable energetic inte...

I didn't say it did. I said it piggybacks off natural selection, which is a statistical process that I'm sure applies beyond just biology. NS is an in...

If omnigods clash they're equally matched. Therefore not omni-anything. "omni" pertains to "all". If it is not an all encompassing entity, a singular ...

Madeleine etymologically represents "littl girl" in a germanic context. Could this be her reflecting on what it was like to be young and provided for ...

Well if humanity is represented as chess pieces I would argue God is the chess board/game Itself. The pieces have predetermined characteristics - wher...

in a sense yes. Combat between idéologies. When in fact ideologies always exclude the exception. Because exceptions are by nature not ideal. There is ...