I'm not sure about that, since any time I see a chart like the ones you brought up, they seem to always take atheism as being merely a lack of belief ...
Give me any belief that you have apart from those about your experiences and your existence. Do you know that any of these beliefs are true with absol...
I never said you did. I was saying that a fact can be believed without being absolutely certain with regard to its truth. In fact I'd say most of our ...
First off, this doesn't show that agnosticism as defined by Rowe is self-defeating, it shows that your expansion upon agnosticism, as the belief that ...
I find this sort of comment strange. Bruteness to me seems synonymous with fundamentality. When materialists say that matter is "brute", some physicis...
Is it? We are talking about something related to physics which means we are dealing with something physical here. So it seems closer to say that these...
If the worlds are supposed to exist in the same reality, and they are numerically distinct (despite having the same qualitative properties) from one a...
It seems like you are saying that we should do away with the concept of causation altogether, but I thought your point was that there was no distincti...
Consider me part of the camp that finds this line of thought confusing. The distinction between correlation and causation seems pretty clear to me. Fo...
I don't think so. I may be aware of my experiences when I have them, but I am not also aware of the fact that I am having experiences. That sort of aw...
We are indeed talking past each other, because you were, like I said, inappropriately applying A-theorist ideas in a context that was explicitly etern...
Well, given that we are talking about having multiple experiences in the sense of the eternalist worm theory, then of course that is irrelevant. Accor...
True, but he would say that it did exist. It will also delete dinosaurs and historical figures as well. Is that a problem? I don't think it would make...
Tell me, when you talk about having two experiences together, are you bringing in some notion of the flow of time into the mix? That is, when a person...
I'm not sure I understand you. Earlier I said that the disagreement laid with me saying that having an experience x and an experience y means having a...
An experience of x and y is a combined experience. I am not sure what the distinction is to you. Similarly an experience of a red patch on my left sid...
Does that matter? The point in contention is merely whether the fact that a person has an experience of x and an experience of y together means that t...
I am not an eternalist but I am not sure if the eternalist view in itself is nonsensical. As far as I can tell, the sense in which they use the word "...
So the eternalist view in your opinion, is completely incoherent? You did say that you considered the view to be stupid, so is that the reason why? My...
References to eternalism would help me understand what you are saying better. I will drop it once I feel like we are on the same page and understand w...
They don't exist anymore. Then why didn't you say that earlier? There is only one sense of the passage of time I know of. It's not contingent upon ete...
So? Doesn't change the fact that you asked me to do something but then asked me why I was doing it later. See, it's statements like these that make me...
Because you asked me to create a new word to describe what it means to you. If just using the word exists suffices for you then whatever. So according...
It just means what it says. If something exists, then it is a part of what is NOW. So far as I can tell, nope. But then again, you also mention that y...
Okay, we could've just continued from there then. What is NOW includes what generally exists. According to the Block Universe all times are NOW, while...
Do you know what NOW means? Does your conception of having multiple experiences require the passage of time (yes/no)? I keep asking you questions like...
Do both of these experiences exist together NOW? (Not saying if they exist at the same time, mind you). Or does this experience of getting up and goin...
Not at the same instant no. By parts of an experience I mean just that. For instance, I have a visual experience of a forest, but it can contain a bun...
When you say you experience both sitting in a room and being on a train, are you saying that you find yourself having an experience where sitting in y...
Okay? I thought they were important, but you didn't. That sounds like an issue in itself. Do you understand what the term NOW means then, or is that s...
Again, if you could please read up on they mean then that would make both of our lives easier. You can still remain neutral even after reading about t...
Nobody needs to commit to any metaphysical theory of time in order to accept P3. Technically, nobody even needs to have an explicit understanding of t...
In the case just described, it is an experience of "Skydiving and Smelling burnt toast". It is not just having an experience of "Skydiving" and an exp...
The latter wasn't meant to be "had simultaneously" as "at a time". I was asking you if you are saying a temporal worm can be subject to an experience ...
There are different senses to having "both" experiences as I have pointed out in my last post. If you are saying you have them in both senses, then th...
Wait, I am not sure if you are trying to disagree with me or are agreeing with me. Under what theory of time are you saying that you have both experie...
This is under the assumption that both experiences are by together by the same subject, under the worm theory right? If not then you aren't understand...
That is actually a problem for presentism. If certain events from the past don't exist NOW, how can we say they are true? Eternalists and Growing Bloc...
At this point, you are objecting to my P2. To me, P2. seems like the straightforward consequence of being an entity that consists of parts which each ...
Okay, Eternalism says that the past, the future and the present are all NOW. According to the block universe, every event from the Big Bang to whateve...
You know how eternalism says that the past and future exist while the presentist doesn't? Of course, you don't need to take my word that that is what ...
I just did. It's called NOW, in accord with the Stanford definition of "existing in the domain of our most unrestricted quantifiers", that they themse...
Under the worm-theory, those experiences of being at my computer are had as part of a larger experience which includes other times. But simply put, it...
Personally, it seems like the ontological now is more basic than the sense of "now" in terms of temporal location (but I am not saying it is how the e...
Nope. It could also mean that presentism is true as well, but that is if you are not an eternalist. Technically, the worm theory can still be true, if...
First off, thank you for responding to my request. Because of that, I now have a better understanding of your objections so hopefully the conversation...
Just because my existence would extend throughout my entire life, that doesn't suddenly invalidate it. The only way in which I would believe it to be ...
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