It has to do with the belief that other minds have the capacity to experience pain/suffering as you do/have in the past. As in it woukd be unethical t...
Haha fair enough. Kant, Augustin, Hume and Aristotle as far as I know believed time was an intuitive sense (perception only) and that an absolute/disc...
Times context is the medium between that which causes (energy - in a timeless state travelling at speed C) and that which is caused (objects that have...
If it helps Glen consider this: take two humans. To human one: their experience of human 2 is part of their experience (the "out there") and vice vers...
I think Kant and Leibnitz were both correct. Because Kants notion of time and space being absolute (controlled for/assumed constant) gives access to t...
When did I say do "anything? " In case you weren't aware, helping someone out of suffering is a mutual effort. It takes both the hand offered and the ...
like I think consciousness is fundamental. If consciousness is the ability to gather and store information and use this as a "self - contained" system...
I can if you'd like Agent Smith. :) Change requires the "energy" to do it, and the "time" for it to get done. Change exerts change on everything aroun...
Oh good. Finally. I'm glad I'm wrong then and you finally accept we are on the same side and both don't hate life. You made a good choice to re-evalua...
All down to a lack of potency. Lack of intelligence/wisdom/resourcefulness/lack of initiative/lack of creativity etc etc. Put a parent and their child...
I do. I believe in myself as a caretaker. I had very good parents to teach me how. The only possible reason I can imagine for an anitnatalist ideology...
Who says they dodged a bullet? This assumes person B is completely vulnerable and helpless in the world. And person A is equally vulnerable and helple...
Very interesting indeed. I agree. Attachment seems almost spontaneous and effortless when we are not thinking, we tend to drift back towards these kle...
Is coherence and plausibility not much the same idea? And Christianity a subtype under the umbrella of theism? These two sentences seem to me to be a ...
For me I don't really see the purpose of an "afterlife." It's just existence. What we are made of fundamentally, isn't going anywhere, it has been the...
Quite right. I guess it's about awareness isn't it? If one is ignorant or clueless in action can we really blame them for poor outcomes? For example i...
Haha I get you. Yes it is full of stumbling blocks and diversions and twists and turns. Hard for the mind to wrap itself around, but not impossible. I...
You're right spiritual intuition and scientific objective method has opposing methods/dogmas for the collection of empirical evidence to support their...
Are you suggesting Einstein was wrong? Time for us can be considered constant for the purpose of daily life, observations and newtoninan physics, beca...
A shame really :( I do think that the knowledge/teachings of a parent to their children are still very much oral traditions. They don't spell it out f...
No it doesn't. I just outlined the conditions. Person A forced person B into existence and they happened to love it and be grateful to person A for fo...
They're not morally equivalent which is exactly what laws are based on. Giving to charity and murdering 300 people are also not morally equivalent and...
What if I force someone into a game that they enjoy? They have a great time and vibe despite the fact I gave them no choice but to play? What would yo...
Spot on Constance. Well for me "causality" must (as all things must) be put in context. Causality is temporal is it not? It relies on the passage of t...
Agreed. It's their choice, not mine. Absolutely. I agree. This is where our agreement departs. We are assuming the rules of such a game are fixed. Tho...
I think it is possible to be criminal and also rational in the case that the law is irrational. Which is entirely possible as laws are ammended becaus...
I think it's exactly this sentiment that lead people to so readily propel and uphold anyone's views which they deem as brave/courageous and at a direc...
I think Jesus's approach was purely verbal. He offered what was likely sound reason and simulatenously sound ethical principle for what ought to be be...
The forbidden fruit strikes again. "Curiosity killed the cat" it seems, in these instances. Guys I told you not to that one thing and that's exactly w...
I would say yes in a once sense and no in another (Duality again see? Haha) In the yes sense: mental energy (electrical impulses that make up thought-...
A lack of perfection perhaps (whatever that entails for the individual), motivated by a need to improve circumstances from the imperfect towards to pe...
Correct indeed. Duality my friend. Things can be one and separate simultaneously, depending on where we choose to discriminate, to draw a boundary, to...
Quite right Bylaw! Intuition is the great instinct that propagates the life it imbues. Intuition ought never be ignored but rather, enriched with reas...
Perhaps unlearning and learning are one and the same? In that maybe if there is a fundamental truth it is both that which we depart from (unlearn) as ...
Oh yes we definitely bestow information on objects. That's our "meaning" for them right? It's characteristics (form, texture, appearance, how it "feel...
That's fine. You seem to prefer discretion and finitude than open flow and infinities. I think you would make an excellent specialist in a field. Are ...
I hear what you're saying and from the perspective of a specialist that has narrowed, strictly defined and specified their line of thinking and empiri...
Why not. Are we not made from physics? We are physical. The information we hold in our brain is as much stored in the physical (anatomical synapses) a...
Yes quite right. Non-conscious matter in theory wouldn't "experience" the passage of time but conscious matter (people) do experience time as its perc...
I think past-present-future evolve simulateneously, through deceleration away from/ in reference to - the speed of light (where past-present-future ar...
Thank you Agent Smith. That's fascinating. I had never heard about these stories either as said. I can only imagine how many kernels of wisdom are out...
Perfect use of the term cancerous imo. A healthy cell recognises that it can't have it all without being a cancer to the others, and ironically ignori...
I mean, I'd rather not.. butt... If you say so. :p Yes I understand, I didn't mean to offend or anything I was merely following what I thought to be t...
In that sense you outlined, yes I'm referring to human selection. However humans are natural - born of nature itself. At what point does natural selec...
That's totally fine. Based on how you use the term - I disagree. I don't think a person can be omnipotent (they can't create stars, levitate or telepo...
Could natural selection not also operate on a cultural, linguistic and neurological level? I fail to see how the process is limited to biology and can...
I think most scriptures are intended to be interpreted metaphorically not literally. Parables, like children's stories, don't neccesarily have to refe...
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