This is a logic puzzle, every detail is an important rule. If you misunderstand or don't think critically about everything, you're going to miss out. ...
No, I'm done if you won't confirm that I had the rules right at this point. I just feel like you're trolling. If you want me to keep playing, please c...
If this answer is something like, "Everyone will turn and stare at the two blue eyed people, I'm going to be angry. That's not a logic puzzle, that's ...
No, because the red that the brain sees is not emitted light. Its physical light that is interpreted into a subjective experience of those brain cells...
Ok, so I'm going to assume that YES, its always 201 people, but that the eye color can vary at any one time. In that case, the solution is trivial. Ob...
I said in my summary that there are at the time of the elder speaking, 100 blue eyed, 100 brown eyed, and 1 green eyed elder. You said that summary wa...
I'm asking you to clarify the rules. Imagining something that isn't in the rules is pointless if I'm unsure of the rules. Please clarify the rules as ...
You agreed with me earlier here: Are you now saying this was incorrect and that the number of people with different eye color could be different when ...
Your therefore is wrong. You can only conclude a football game is comprised of players and field. If you have no players or field, you have no existen...
Thank you. Then logically taking only the information given, no one would be able to leave the island. All the elder has confirmed is that blue is a c...
Not a worry, that's just how I break down things to make sure I understand the situation correctly. And when you say, "All of them" do you mean the 10...
Out of all the replies I didn't expect this one. Any good logic problem needs to be broken down and poked at carefully. If I appear confused while bre...
Mental actions are physical actions. You cannot have a mental action that exists apart from some physical reality like the brain. It is a mistake of c...
Ok, so one person knows all the other people on the island, and knows their eye color. The only one they don't know is themselves. Ok. So I'm assuming...
Yes, I did that in the link for a proposed objective morality. I have yet to have anybody rationally critique its first premise conclusions that the n...
Its irrelevant why I believe something does not exist. Its relevant if I know that something doesn't exist. Belief is a feeling. Knowledge is an objec...
Welcome to the forum Pieter! You might look at the current world and think philosophy has done nothing to fix it, but the reality is the world of toda...
I really like this post btw. I would like to propose an alternative. "Everything has subjective experience, but consciousness is one aspect of subject...
Yes. How did you type your response and send it over the internet to me? Do you think there was a mind involved that created the electricity? Do you t...
An interesting topic. I've found myself drawn away from these forums for just this reason. Creativity is rare and the proposal of it is rarely explore...
Look at it like this. I have subjective empathy and that causes me to give a person 5$ who needs it. I don't have subjective empathy but I have object...
Right, but a moral system needs an objective measuring system. All feelings are objectively felt by every being that has those feelings, but the feeli...
I wish that were true. What you're describing is human empathy which is a subjective experience. We're talking about an objective morality which liter...
A system that evaluates the consequences of a decision holistically and not merely to a narrow goal as to the best action in a particular circumstance...
Every time we advance technology that replaces tons of jobs we come up with new things we didn't think of before that requires humans. We'll still nee...
Clearly you are as I just told you it was not. You seem to have also lost your ability to continue to read past one sentence and address the full poin...
You confuse the question "So if I desire to murder a child is that good?" as proof of an objective morality. It is not, nor is it ever claimed as proo...
Do you realize the irony of what you did here? Isn't this statement an appeal to emotion, popularity, and begging the question? Is that really what ob...
I've read about half in seriousness and about half skimming because of time this morning. What I can say so far: Well done. This is a serious paper th...
Then you have not read or did not understand the post. God if one of infinite possibilities and my argument makes God plausible. I did, and you're cor...
You should choose the most rational stance in X context if you are in X context. If you don't, then don't. Just clarifying there is nothing innate for...
It depends on what you are trying to achieve. If you're trying to achieve the most logical outcome, then you should. If your goal is to justify someth...
Yes. I note it in the paper I linked. First, use deductive knowledge based off of context, resources, and time. Where there are limitations, use induc...
Its a good stab, but 'stances' can be greatly simplified to 'contexts'. The idea that there is one 'this is rational' context misses the point of lang...
Here I've conclusively proven the only thing we can conclude about the existence of the universe. https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/15722/the-...
No. If its a true universal moral system, it will be objective. Not saying it can't be improved upon or more discovered, but it would be a solid scien...
Sam this isn't the place to proselytize NDEs. You've made your arguments and a discussion has been had. Do these add anything new to discuss philosoph...
That was my point. If you use terminology that has a high variance of answers and disagreement, its not good terminology to use. These words are usual...
Alright. First, I generally frown on one sided political topics in philosophy. Politics and religion are two ideologies that make people extremely def...
Social pressure is used to cook a society the way certain powerful individuals want. The advantage of this is we can prevent a society from leaning in...
100% agree. This feels more like a pop culture argument with very poor definitions of masculinity and femininity that are tools to argue a political p...
Its not a popular position, its the only rational conclusion we can draw at this point in science and history. Not quite. You are conscious because of...
There's a large difference in outlook between knowing that things are determined vs the idea that nothing can know what that is. Even measuring the en...
Hi Kranky. First, what is 'certainty'? Is it being free from doubt? Because I can doubt is just a state of mind in which you are suspicious that somet...
Well said. Still, there is room for "What is consciousness" as a philosophical puzzle. While I agree that your approach is more likely effective in ac...
And I don't think we disagree on this, I'm just trying to add the wrinkle of context in here. If I say, "Mark is an unmarried man" then say, "Its true...
That's one way to view it. Another is to convince others who do not have faith why they should. If I could present a reasonable argument that persuade...
Well this is horrifically dystopian! Who gets to decide what empathy is? We have massive debates on moral grounds as it is, who is going to say, "Yeah...
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