Kaarlo Tuomi

neither a service nor a utility are wealth. Kaarlo Tuomi

Brett, you seem to be getting farther and farther from the point you said you were trying to make. let's just refresh ourselves what this is about. 1....

I want to apologise for making assumptions about you. and to thank you for pointing out that I was doing that. you have in fact told me nothing and ac...

the thing I've really enjoyed about the comments in this thread is how many folk have considered the idea of a simulated universe in ways I would not ...

okay we're getting down to the fine detail now and Brett wants to concentrate on wealth formation. Brett thinks that entrepreneurs create wealth and t...

I think the point Brett is making is that I have purchased stuff, and since this is made by companies that were started by entrepreneurs then I have p...

one way to think about it is to consider the following: if entrepreneurship is good for everyone, and entrepreneurs have increased since the invention...

I am not able to understand how anyone would be able to approach this question, from any direction or in any way. I voted bewilderment. by analogy: a ...

except that the discussion in this one thread alone makes it abundantly clear that folk have different ideas of what political correctness is. so folk...

I think that what you are doing is conflating your opinion of what some entrepreneurs have done, with the motivation of entrepreneurs generally to be ...

have a nice life.

I think you have to keep repeating it because folk cannot understand what it says, because it is itself a contradiction. if you have to assume it, the...

there are, as far as I can tell, three main reasons: 1. philosophers are by their very nature, thinkers. which means that "doing philosophy" consists ...

thank you for engaging, I appreciate it, and can't help thinking that the poison could not have been very potent if he managed to ask all those questi...

thank you very much for engaging. I have to admit that I found your description quite compelling, and surprisingly understandable, for which I thank y...

that's because my wavefunction collapsed when I counted out the tip. Kaarlo Tuomi

thank you for that link. actually I've just been reading about the Copenhagen interpretation on Wikipedia, and it seems that if I know where the waite...

so when I'm sat in the ice cream parlour there is a single wavefunction, but there are ten "worlds", and when I make a choice from the menu I entangle...

I don't play computer games but I have been reading about advances in the way these games are programmed so that the world within the game has become ...

thank you for engaging on this. I like your idea that the simulation has a dual nature, reflecting both progress and expectation, which are hopeful pr...

demonstrating quite clearly that you still do not appreciate the difference between subjective and objective. it is literally impossible for any state...

well, actually, I don't. and the reason is to be found in an earlier post in this thread but you dismissed it in a very superficial way so I'm not sur...

I guess it depends on what you mean by meaning, and whether you require your particular life to have meaning, or do you mean the existence of the huma...

if I told you that my favourite flavour of ice cream was strawberry, would you have any means by which you could determine, independently of me, wheth...

perhaps not go for the Mint, then. Kaarlo Tuomi

thank you. Kaarlo Tuomi

I don't think I could have put quite as well as you did but I do both agree and thank you. it is reassuring to know that I was not just being obtuse. ...

if you genuinely believe this and are not just jesting with me, then I'm afraid I'm going to have to bow out of this conversation because I am not cle...

it seems to me that if subjective really is "the state of a subject," then "Paris is the capital of France" is the state of a subject and therefore su...

I'm afraid this directly contradicts what you said earlier. which means that you consider your subjective preference to be objectively true. please fo...

amino acids come in complementary pairs, with a left hand and a right hand version. these are mirror images of each other but not interchangeable (in ...

so how do you discriminate between an opinion and a preference? if I understand you correctly, you are just using "preference" to mean the answer to a...

I said: If A then B you said: not B conclusion: not A Kaarlo Tuomi

no, that isn't it at all. I genuinely cannot imagine how anyone can physically construct the universe in which they live. this is largely because I th...

I disagree with this. why does either one of them necessarily have to be "right" ? I also disagree with this. you are not wrong just because I disagre...

I tend to do folk the courtesy of believing what they say, and you'd be surprised how often that backfires. if you say "correct opinion" then I take y...

I believe that I do know myself, or at least that I am getting better at it, I just don't know how philosophy would categorize that. Kaarlo Tuomi

I don't know enough about philosophy generally to know which particular school of thought Bill belongs to; I couldn't even tell you where I fit much l...

that was an extremely interesting read. the dead salmon is both very funny and extremely frightening at the same time. thank you Kaarlo Tuomi

I can't imagine aliens inside the VR they had created. by analogy, I don't expect to meet Bill Gates inside the Microsoft Flight Simulator. there migh...

I'm afraid I have to doubt your certainty. Descartes showed that he had a brain, sure, but he has failed to show that the voice he could hear inside h...

I deliberately avoided making it personal, I wanted it to be about the philosophy not the person. and I will return there and read a lot more and will...

several years ago I watched a documentary on the BBC in which a man was put into a fMRi machine and presented with two cards to choose from. the compu...

if this were true, then there would also be an infinite number of galaxies made of nothing but pineapples and bananas. Kaarlo Tuomi

Banno said: There's a difference between unanswered and unanswerable. thank you. I thought I understood that, but that you thought it necessary to say...

The MadFool said: So you think people have non-hedonic values? What might they be? I'm dying to know. that isn't what I said. I said that before consi...

Lif3r said: I think, therefore I am, and I am, therefore my reality is as well. how do you know that those thoughts are yours? Kaarlo Tuomi

Pfhorrest said: ...an advanced civilization would build a simulation for scientific purposes. They'd want to know what a universe like such-and-such, ...

Nils Loc said: The ones inside it are presumably the ones who made it. that isn't an assumption I would have made. the assumption has always been that...

TheMadFool said:Only childlike naivety can explain someone believing that people have things other than raw, unbridled pleasure on their minds. I subs...