I'd have to agree with the others in the thread. The other forum had an upvote/downvote system and I never understood why it was there. Seeing that a ...
Depends on what you mean by "person". The self is difficult to define, but for the most part (regardless of which way you choose to define who "you" a...
Yes, but what I meant was that the cogito is based upon our certain knowledge of our direct experience. Knowing that "I think" is the same as knowing ...
This implicitly assumes that a God actually does exist that would create your greatest reality. But does he really? You have not shown that there is i...
Yeah, I agree that knowledge about experience does not necessarily provide us with any knowledge of the external world. We could only infer it at best...
Not sure what you mean by "trick of language" here, but I don't think our knowledge of our experience is useless at all. Pretty much everything we kno...
Well, let's say you find yourself having a red experience via. introspection. It's right there in front of you, you can point to it and refer to it as...
How so? Can you offer an example of this? I am currently thinking about the sentence you just wrote, and this is what I find upon reflecting upon my e...
It depends on your views on time really. Traditionally we understand it to be an instant, or duration-less (as someone like Augustine would say, it's ...
Non-locality doesn't necessarily have to violate causality. From what I've read, FTL effects can be accepted without retrocausation provided one give ...
Sounds good, I think. To me, saying that everything exists in this "eternal present" is just a way of saying that they currently exist. Saying that th...
Well, Eternalism is well-known for being counter-intuitive (again, you can look that up if you're skeptical), unless you want to argue that it is a co...
Nope, because under eternalism, it simply isn't the case that Christmas "will exist". Christmas doesn't just pass into existence and October out of it...
No it isn't. If you don't believe in an objective flow of time then there is no meaning to saying that events have occurred or will occur. That is rea...
The author of the article refers to two different senses of the term "now", one in which he calls "ontological" and the other "temporal locative". Whe...
I actually argued for something similar to this in a thread a few months back. I think your conclusion refers to the stage view of persistence, which ...
Well, they are certainly more "real" than say, Santa Claus or Harry Potter. This is what I meant when I said that they are more than fictional. We sti...
The past and future do not exist, but they did exist and they will exist respectively. If you believe that there are facts about what happened then I ...
I think the better question would be if the concept of time travel even makes sense. If you time travel to the past with the sole purpose to prevent a...
I'm not sure if the concept of existence can even be defined. To me, it sounds more like a fundamental term, one that cannot be reduced to anything el...
Agreed. One deals with physics, while the other deals with metaphysics. The scientific models by themselves don't necessitate any particular worldview...
Even if the soldier would feel guilty if they didn't perform their action, was that what was on their mind when they saved their comrades? Were they t...
If Mr. Irreductionist's objection to Mr. Reductionist's picture amounts to a merely pointing out that the individual motions of the particles requires...
Is altruistic action necessarily mutually exclusive with inflicting harm though? If the intent of causing suffering in others is so that they too can ...
What about our conversation? Are you doubting whether or not we are having a discussion right now? You're right, there isn't. I've no idea what you're...
The entity that is having the experience. As for what that entity is exactly, that is something I cannot answer, as that is linked to the problems of ...
Banno is the reincarnation of Napoleon in the sense that both of those individuals share the same subject of experience. Do you have a problem with th...
Perhaps I have trouble understanding your scenario, but the idea of someone freezing their own time without freezing the time outside themselves doesn...
I wasn't really referring to our livelihood, but the type of government that a country would have over time. Speaking of livelihood though, you say th...
Um, since when did choice become a part of all this? Our discussion mainly had to do with determinism and its compatibility with QM, and not with free...
As if Bell and Bohm were the only Bohmians around. And everyone else is simply biased against Bohm? I'm sorry, but there have been plenty of physicist...
To be frank, I am still skeptical that many people, including physicists who should know better, are prone to this error. Some part of me suspects tha...
Hmm, interesting. I didn't know of that. Unfortunately, like I said earlier, I have no technical knowledge to rely on so I can't look into it. The bes...
What's the difference? Is causal compatible with uncaused indeterminism? I'm sorry, but it's actually common knowledge that the Bohm interpretation is...
Yeah, I originally meant to say that the vast majority of our scientific theories (barring QM which is debatable) are and have been deterministic and ...
Then what are the scientists looking for if not laws that describe how our world works? This is the listing of all of the interpretations of QM (there...
Yeah, determinism has zero evidence, apart from the fact that we find that pretty much everything in the physical universe is determined by the laws o...
Not necessarily true. The Copenhagen interpretation of QM says that there is indeterminism, but there also exist other interpretations as well that sa...
Okay, so what exactly in the infinite chain is objectionable? Also, what is this "Modus-Ponen's infinite regress" you're referring to? Quick google se...
I think this sounds similar to my own theory, just with different wording. Instead of saying that an infinite regress involves "solving a problem", yo...
First off, I would want to say that I do not believe in any sort of "objective" morality. Or to put it another way, I don't think that there any absol...
I think it's the opposite really. Democratic systems tend to change their ruling party from time to time (for instance just look at the U.S. where the...
Seems like you decided to go with the idea that the big bang was the origin of time and space. That seems to create a problem with your P4. though lik...
I'm having trouble reading your argument, since I don't see how your premises are all related to one another (in the sense that they all should point ...
So which one are you rejecting here? Seems like the former, but if that is the case, then I still don't understand where the assertion that some thing...
Not sure I am getting the connection between things that expand from us at a speed faster than light and them not existing. Sure they won't ever inter...
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