Hmm yes. I see what you mean here. Naturally one would imagine this assertion and domineering ego of theirs is a compensatory or coping mechanism for ...
Plenty I would say. Oodles. Emotional pain and suffering elicit the very same stress response as physical pain and afflictions. A stressed mind sends ...
I have heard theories that the brain could be a sort of “transmission tower or receiver” that has the capacity to condense and accelerate the properti...
A “concept” to me is a ‘mental construction’ of something that may either a). Already exist. For example I have the concept of a tree in my mind. Or b...
Well that’s where the mind comes in doesn’t it? The mind holds conceptual information. Art, music, creativity, re-inventing, mixing of ideas and thing...
Ah well if that’s the case then it does satisfy both the material/ substantial/ matter as well as all processes or interactions (energetic) that exert...
Energy is not “always” physical (referring to “physical” as having dimension and material/substance). It can be... because E=mc2. Matter has equivalen...
I also agree with this attitude. I think the hard problem may be a pseudoproblem in the sense that science may not be the correct discipline to decide...
Further heating of the coffee cup still leads to increased entropy. The point is entropy is why the coffee cools in the first place. Energy doesn’t li...
What do you mean by “physical” - do you mean having substance or material? Because a photon is massless and yet it exists- if it didn’t you wouldn’t b...
But by that logic we can never understand society - because we a part of it. We can’t understand natural selection because we aren’t removed from it. ...
It’s because we use ions (sodium, chlorine and potassium) as the carrier of charge and unlike electrons these are huge - if an electron was a football...
I believe a positron can take the place of an electron assuming it evolved in a universe made completely of antimatter. Physics should work the exact ...
I don’t see how there is any other way of appreciating or understanding reality. Of course the universe as we understand it is in reference to how we ...
That’s a good question. For me I find it hard to imagine a linear chronology of time without the capacity to remember (a feature of conscious things)....
Well I would argue that the scope of what it is to be intelligent is vastly larger than “what it is to have arms and legs” - as intelligence in the lo...
I’m inclined to agree. Having sense (sentience) of something can be very primitive/ basic and doesn’t mean it’s intelligent. AI is intelligent because...
Alright. But if that’s the case what is the relevance of your previous statement: Surely if physicalism and science are unrelated then why do we need ...
I understand however science has difficulty proving all things. Hence why I asked. Proof can be sought not only scientifically but mathematically, phi...
Very true. But perhaps time to a human and time to the universe are very different. We know its rate objectively depends on distance, gravity, relativ...
Interesting, could you elaborate a bit more? Also out of curiosity by what criteria is something “proven” to you or in the sense that you’re using it ...
I made no such claims in any format different to how you did. We are both speaking on the behalf of those born/ to be born and whether it’s morally co...
They are also born ignorant. Ignorant of the concepts of “moral”, “justice”, “choice/ free will”, “harm/ suffering” and the diversity of “joys/ pleasa...
How does an instruction instruct its own composition? I find it hard to understand how an algorithm or code or whatever used to determine the structur...
Would this mean we cannot know any truths about anything? Only our “personal/ subjective” truth about them because we cannot observe or consider anyth...
Also I’m not saying chicken before egg here. I don’t believe the universe “obeys” anything we apply to it rather that our paradigms and algorithms (in...
I’m using the term loosely and figuratively so as not to detract too much from the main argument with defining specific words. Because we could be her...
I agree... if you can still die from hunger and thirst or even suffer endless starvation without dying from it (probably worse) then there is still a ...
The issue here is that... the human body and mind is exceptionally good at adapting a new base level, a new norm. Consider two people: person one has ...
I’m not sure if you can apply scientific objectivity or harsh rigorous and skeptical criticisms to all domains of human awareness. I often feel a scie...
Yes this was sort of along my line of thinking also. Lights properties are impressive and seem almost otherworldly yet it is present everywhere- in pl...
Well I was pouring out how light is also non-physical (massless) and eternal (cannot be created or destroyed) Yeah why not. There are a few parallels....
True is guess it would be a sort of yin yang, positive negative, light dark thing. You can’t really have one without the other and if “god” is all thi...
Similarly, why does it not need to be caused? Is there not equal reason to argue either viewpoint logically? Is it that the set of all causes cannot i...
Interesting but how is it fallacious ? non existence cannot decide whether it’s greater to exist or not by virtue of not existing. One must exist firs...
The article explained that belief would be in this situation the mean of all beliefs - ie every sentient believer has a proportional influence on the ...
That’s why I said “suppose”. It’s a hypothetical situation leading to hypothetical conclusions. Replying “impossible” to a “what if” question has abou...
I like your approachability and curiosity. I sometimes think the philosophers here are most jaded and set in their beliefs/ not willing to entertain m...
True he was a bit more involved in the outcome. However some food for thought on the matter, it’s often said that the only difference between the “tro...
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