Ok, but liking a rose isn't the same as experiencing redness. What you're saying is that liking the rose is the same as saying the rose is good. Are y...
No argument there. All of these are questions of scope. You can explain emotions without neurons if that isn't within your scope. Include that as the ...
I am neither arguing for or against spacetime as fundamental. I don't understand the point. Right, I've never even mentioned the Big Bang. Tell you wh...
All you've replaced is personal emotion with group emotion. Meaning I could nuke a group that doesn't have the emotions I do to do what I want, and th...
But this was in regard to feelings. I don't feel that the rose is red. Red is not a feature of my feeling, its a feature of the light bouncing off the...
Something outside of space and time cannot affect space and time. Physics is all about contact and transference. We also have no evidence of anything ...
That's because we've limited the scope to that factory only. Increase the scope to the people who planned and built the factory and now we have intent...
Well if we could trace its composition over time we would come to a being that had intention when making the object. That fits in fine with my argumen...
Sure, I'm not saying they aren't impossible generally, and I definitely am not a fan of infinite regress, but I think they are impossible with the exa...
I don't understand what this means, can you go more in depth? For the rest of your replies MoK, I'm just seeing restatements of assertions, not reason...
Then the only thing we can reason is that we can all do whatever we want to each other and no one has a reasonable way of saying what can and cannot b...
Then good and evil are just synonyms for feelings. At that point why even have the words? You haven't differentiated them from feelings, you've simply...
But you have replied in a way that indicates there is one. A person can claim that plants don't need water to live, but then proceed to water their pl...
To clarify, I'm addressing my personal opinions on infinite existence. This actually wasn't a criticism of your point. :) I think you misunderstand st...
My point is that you were stating a moral fact, but declared there was none. So is pain good or evil? If people who don't feel pain live less, is that...
So is everything about our experience. How does good differ from happiness, sadness, like, dislike, etc? If good is not what should be, then is it wha...
Its more than that. Its a reference to creating an argument of mysticism to fill in when there's a problem that's difficult to solve. I find the belie...
That's simply included in the classification of composition and time. If part of the prior reason for an action included an intelligent being, then in...
A definition of a moral fact! :D Is it a fact that they are necessary, or simply a feeling and thus only an opinion? When you include things like reas...
These seem to be solid definitions, nice. Agreed. So I personally do not like the idea of an infinite regress, and view it as a 'god of the gaps' argu...
Which is fine, but I'm asking you how this applies to what I've written. Do you believe this counters the arguments of the OP, agrees with the argumen...
How does this apply to the points of the paper? I feel like you just chimed in with your own viewpoint on something, but it would be great if you coul...
Is that a fact, or a feeling? If its a fact, then we have a moral fact. If its a feeling, then what if I feel this is incorrect? Who's right? And that...
Hello again Bob! My busy end of 2024 schedule has relented, so I have time again to properly engage with your posts. I'm always a fan of 'God' origin ...
Do we know for a fact that there is no moral fact? Do we even need such a claim in your argument? For example, lets say that God did exist and knew al...
I see, so you think there is something apart from what causes the emotion of beauty, to instead believe that beauty is something as a property which e...
I'm glad! I find that whether I arrive at an answer or not, the thinking about it is sometimes the best part of the process. I've give my answer, thou...
Fantastic! Can you delve further? Why would symmetry, curvature, etc be beautiful? Is there a combination of object, color and the like which would no...
No disagreement here, but what is the underlying aspect that makes something beautiful? My apologies if I'm not volunteering my own thoughts, its more...
I think beauty and ugliness are innate parts of a healthy human experience. The more interesting question in my mind is, "What do they mean?" While so...
For the actually honest person without psychological issues that wishes to prove the world is round, there are a host of resources to do so. The peopl...
No, you would have proven that the world is less round then the experts listed. Again, proven off of incomplete information. Testing refraction is the...
Ever heard of the saying, "Enough knowledge to be dangerous?" The problem with the flat Earthers is they're only taking one part of the equation and n...
Sure, I'm quite sure the specifics of it are going to be slightly different from my example. My point is the same: Look at how the experts formed thei...
First, we can take the claim of scientists and experts and test them ourselves. We can test with measuring shadows like in ancient Rome. We can test b...
That didn't answer my question. Which means you know the answer, but were unwilling to admit it. Of course what the kid states is true, even if they d...
What specifically is unclear? Let us say that I tell a young kid, "1+1=2". The kid doesn't know what any of it means. They go up to an adult and say, ...
Truth is about something concrete, and corresponds to reality. Let me fix this for you: "A true statement is about something concrete, and corresponds...
No, its simply noting that things exist apart from what we know or believe. Truth is what is whether its observed or not. Whether its mundane or not. ...
No. Truth is what simply is. Whether you know it or not is irrelevant. Again, you're confusing truth with knowledge. Knowledge is a tool; a logical pr...
You're making a classic mistake in conflating two separate labels. "Knowledge" and "Truth". What is known is determined through a series of logical de...
Science is looking at a situation, coming up with a hypotheses, then testing it. But in this case, most of the words are all clearly defined. Philosop...
First, we need to define 'science'. Science does not claim "x is true". Science claims, "We have a hypothesis that X is true, and every attempt to pro...
Sure, insects like an ant. They can think, but I'm pretty sure one has never realized its an 'I'. Thinking does not presume one has ever thought of th...
This would be incorrect, as there are thinking things that do not have a sense of self. Kant really means, "I think, therefore I am." If one realizes ...
You can't know the truth about reality, but you can have knowledge. Read here if you're interested. There's a fantastic summary of the post from the n...
I think the word you're looking for is 'pre-requisite', not cause. I can have a 1 and a 1 next to each other and never think of the idea of '2'. The i...
I believe beauty is the impression of a being or place which is conducive to existence. Existence being a conglomeration of balanced differences, exis...
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