Philosophim

The philosophy of mind isn't dead, it just needs to be married to neuroscience and today's facts. People thinking they can solve philosophy of mind pr...

You as well jgill! I greatly enjoyed your contributions to the thread. Fantastic link Banno, I was not aware this was a study of philosophy. After rea...

My point is about context. "I would prefer to do X, but I should do this instead." Preference is often subjective. What you mean is a specified kind o...

Determinism is the idea that everything was completely set by rules from the beginning. Tempral causality simply means that a prior event is the reaso...

I appreciate the defense, but he posted that years ago. Its the only time I've ever had an issue with him and its long forgiven. 180 Proof and I are A...

If I understand you correctly, you're just talking about a mathematical origin. That's not the same as a first cause as defined in the OP. Lets envisi...

It makes me incredibly happy to hear you understood the paper and what the goal was. Possibly. If there is a need for it, I will. Honestly I've never ...

Certainly. But it should be 'seems because evidence points to this' vs 'seems because it requires far less work'.

Perfect. To me, this is one of the essences of philosophy. Question everything. Especially the bases you rest your assumptions on. We should be workin...

Ha ha! I'm glad. Philosophy should be fun too. :) There could be, absolutely. There is nothing that indicates that it would suddenly end. One such ran...

Basically I'm noting that there needs to be evidence of a miracle, and that this requires a methodical approach. Wine eventually turns into vinegar if...

The reliance on excessive vocabulary and technical jargon is the desperate cry for relevance and convincing others of its own importance. The more one...

This is a misunderstanding of statistics. It is not truly random and uncaused. We know the causes of radioactive decay. The use of statistics and chan...

I think you can simplify this down further. First you need to demonstrate a supernatural being is actually possible. A 'miracle', or a violation of th...

I appreciate it! I often feel my outside of the box philosophy is unapproachable for many people. I had a few professors in the past who were interest...

If nothing caused it, then it would be a first cause. A first cause has no prior explanation for its existence, it simply is. So you see, these suppos...

Interesting take urcarr! I posted a theory of knowledge a while back here: https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/14044/knowledge-and-induction-wit...

Sorry for the delay in answering. If there truly was no prior cause, then yes. I'm fairly certain that radioactive decay has pretty clear causes thoug...

Agreed. Once we get past the basic matter issue and onto people however, I think you'll see how this works. Just one step at a time so we don't have t...

Thanks! I'm less concerned with being right here as getting people to think. I'm glad you got to experience that. This right here. If "Existence shoul...

True. These points are just summaries. You'll need the full story by reading the typed out details afterwards. However, this has changed a bit from di...

Hi AmadeusD, appreciate the visit to the thread! For thread like this I'm presenting several very specific arguments that lead up to conclusions. I'm ...

Lets leave this for now then. I've tried explaining it a few times and I'm not sure how else to at this point. If you understand the statement "You sh...

I am begging the question. What is time if not related to the change between objects? :D Its easy in the first case because time is change between ent...

This is completely fair, and many people have a higher standard of knowledge that ties in with truth. Epistemology is one of my favorite topics, and I...

Recall this is not a proof that objective morality exists. This is an attempt to rationally identify what an objective morality would rationally be. W...

Knowledge and truth are not the same thing. Knowledge is the most reasonable conclusion we can make with the information we have at the time. That can...

How do you see "Doesn't know" as different from "unknowing"? Aren't they the same thing? No, we would need to see his evidence first. Einstein invente...

That's kind of the point. We're trying to come up with a reasonable explanation of time. I just mean that they never move. There is no outside observe...

Appreciate the tag. I read it with interest, just nothing further to add to the matter. :)

No, its just two particles. Lets say the particles are a little misshapen so its apparent they aren't even rotating around each other either. If they ...

The wisest words you've said here. Another conversation, another time.

Let me give you the thought experiment I'm thinking of so you can see what I mean. Lets say that only two particles exist in the entire universe. They...

Truth exists despite our knowledge of it. They are not the same thing. I can know physics today, but there may be aspects of it that aren't true which...

And here I thought we had a nice parting of the ways. You're simply asserting, "I'm wrong" then calling me a troll. Control yourself and bow out of a ...

Hey Bob, for some reason I completely missed that you had replied to this. Came in to review it and saw it luckily! Its just not internally coherent. ...

Yes, that's what an agnostic does. They don't have enough evidence to make a decision either way. But this seems to be upsetting you. Have the last wo...

Odd how riled up you are over this. I'm an atheist. I know God doesn't exist. Its not that hard. You seem to be confusing that knowledge means you hav...

Which is fine. Philosophy which refers to itself as something to look into and test is sound philosophy. We always need people poking and prodding at ...

You don't need to demonstrate that you know things because the evidence isn't adequate for it. I know that Zeus doesn't exist. Its not that I don't be...

I'm not a fan of any word that identifies a race in America as something special or different, considering our long and crappy history with racism. I ...

Several problems with this. 1. To reject an assertion that there is a God, you either have to believe that there is no God, or know that there is no G...

Who's calling themselves an agnostic atheist? That's just misunderstanding the definition of the terms. Agnostic - Doesn't know if God exists or not A...

Not a problem! I hope you enjoy your time here.

Welcome to the forum Elysium House! Just a heads up, you ended up replying to a 3 year old post. Check at the bottom of the post in the lower left cor...

Oh, I actually didn't mean to imply that. I'm not a person who believes all reality is dependent on our observation. I do believe there need to be at ...

I believe I noted that time was registered change between entities. That's not very specific of course. Do you have a definition of time that you like...

No, it is random by statistics. It is not actually violating the laws of physics. :) To have something without a prior explanation means there were no...

Time doesn't exist if nothing exists, that's true. However, there is one thing we're likely making a mistake on. If its true that there is no reason w...

We can even remove the virtual particle notion. If it is the case that the origin of the universe has no prior explanation for its existence, there ar...