DoppyTheElv

I suppose I agree with the gist of it. But I find it much more attractive to follow where you believe the path leads while knowing and understanding y...

While I agree that dogmatism and fundamentalism are wrongheaded, even off-putting to me personally. Both in believers and non-believers alike. It does...

Lets just shy away from the discussion side of things because we're not getting anywhere. What are you hoping to get out of this discussion? Seeing as...

I feel unqualified. Though I wished the people who are also more knowledgeable about this would join in. It'd be a learning experience and fun to read...

I like music and it makes me happy. There is nothing illogical about liking music being a sufficient reason to play my piano. This would change if you...

If multiple people are telling you that you're in fact not explaining anything then you should probably look into it.

No it's not. It's an appeal to it feels good and there is no reason not to do it so it's perfectly logical to want to do it argument. And I said you d...

Im going to need a while to understand all of that stuff! :sweat:

It is hard to grasp because it speaks against my personal experience. If I'm hungry, then I will eat. If I am in love with a person, then I will try m...

In moderation and if you can afford it I don't see why not.

Please do!

It's perfectly logical to do what you like. It would be nonsensical to say: "I like eating ice cream but I don't because life is a chore." And that's ...

So eating an icecream simply because eating an icecream brings forth happiness is not a good reason? I dont get that.

Maybe because it does and you havent shown any reason to the contrary.

But it seems like all of you here then think most if not all of phil of religion is terrible. Not only the bad examples here but in the field as a who...

I wish I could come up with this, man. :up:

No you haven't shut anything down at all. You simply assert it does not follow. I have given a reason why its logical to continue doing something that...

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How on earth is happiness illogical? Happiness feels good -> Going out walking with friends and messing around makes me happy. -> It doesn't harm me. ...

I suppose I can agree that hope usually is an emotional desire for something that isn't usually thought out very much. But it can be. I can hope that ...

I have said nothing about my personal beliefs so once again you have shown that you assume the worldviews of others without actually asking anything. ...

Until you notice that he has literally said you, the person alive, will perish. But your ego, your hopes and dreams and all the other jazz will live o...

I get to be.

I don't see how you not being able to lift a rock is logically impossible.

Exactly where I'm planning to go to college! Beautiful place.

Aha a fellow Belgian!

I believe it is folly to say that wanting more life is greedy. It's the most fundamental thing we have, it's only natural to have the desire to keep i...

But can nothing even be? Consciousness can become something less complex perhaps. But becoming nothing seems to ring my intuition alarm.

Both biological and psychological suffer from duplication problems though!

Yes, I agree. In philosophy there's a whole lot of diversity as a whole. I'll have to disagree with this though. Working with the given options I have...

Sure it's incomplete. So is dualism. And panpsychism. Physicalists hold out hoping that science will in the end give an answer.

Where can I read up on the idea that they are controversial? Do you mean controversial in that it's a bad thought experiment? Or controversial in the ...

I think you're talking past me because it's hard for me to follow, sorry. I don't know if it is merely a language problem. We don't have the technolog...

@"Kenosha Kid" and @"SophistiCat" I think the original argument can be put easier with clones. The good old teletransporter problem would have suffice...

That's idealism.

Sure, reincarnation could be a nice tool to convey a point which Solar might want to make. Specifically a point about personal identity. So you're kin...

If I were the exact meat of my brain I'd be dead. If I'd be the function that the brain does, which if the computer takes my brain over but still perf...

I suppose one could say that every brainstate is me? So as you say, as I forget my name, there will be a brain state that correlates with it. I am not...

How about the brain? The parts in there do not change every 7 years like the body.

I for one, do not share this intuition. Dualists and panpsychists would not accept this assertion given the hard problem. The argument usually being m...

That's the entire point that shows why doesn't follow.

The other you being the same you depends on which stance on personal identity you take. But even then I'm inclined to say that neither biological or p...

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I didnt mean it as an argument my apologies. I simply wanted to get a clearer picture of what you were saying. I agree with your stance. Thanks for th...

But surely one can be a novice dialectic when it comes to one particular subject and a well versed one when it comes to another. No? If a philosopher ...

In @"Banno" his post he argued that philosophy about God using scriptural revelation as premise is bad. And I'm in agreement with that. From what I ha...

Yes I have a few books about Jesus lying around. Some conservative scholars and some critical. All in all they're great reads. Very interesting.

I dont do the historical thinking myself because I dont know much about it. I just follow those who know lots more.

From what I gather theres a few commonly accepted things about Jesus and also very obviously contested ones. Its, according to all the reading ive don...

Gotta say that I'm sad to see him go. He had a charm to him.