Philosophim

Ok TVCL. I think I was viewing parameters as specifics you would feed to the goal. You're basically saying the goal and its results are set. Kind of l...

Well for one, they aren't supervenient. You would need to compare thoughts to sight, sound, fire, chemical reactions, etc. If you agree that thoughts ...

I think it will be difficult to place reincarnation as something scientific due to our understanding of memory. We know that memories are stored in th...

There is actually. Its called a T distribution table. If you ever have the pleasure (or agony) of taking a college statistics course, you will learn t...

Ok, so it IS semantics then. Using their vocabulary, thoughts are supervenient, just like their description of color. I've noted that thoughts are the...

You have only pointed to articles by scientists that correlate particular physical brain phenomena with thinking but you haven't demonstrated, at leas...

I've answered your questions. If you want me to add further answers, you're going to have to do more then just repeat the same question.

I'm not sure what else to tell you sir. I've pointed to two articles which have shown physical properties we can track to measure thoughts. Here is an...

I think you're still talking about intelligence, and not life itself. If you want to talk about intelligence as something separate from life, we can g...

Here is how thoughts are generally measured. https://engineering.mit.edu/engage/ask-an-engineer/how-are-thoughts-measured/ Mri's and dopamine are one ...

Yes, fire is energy. And the mind is a result of electricity and chemical reactions zipping around the brain matter. A non-living mind does not have t...

Your reply to Daniel did not answer my point at all. The mind is like a flame in a campfire. You do not measure it in terms of logs, you measure its h...

Asif, are we not completely made up of matter? I think we're emphasizing that there is some great difference between life and non-life, when that is n...

HI TVCL! You remind me a ton of myself when I finished up grad school years ago. Seems you're big on Epistemology like I was, and also wanted to conti...

Fyi, fingernails are dead. They are dead cells pushed out. They also do not continue to grow after you die. Your skin will rot and recede away reveali...

I think you first have to have an understanding of what is good, and what is not good. This understanding of good and not good should extend beyond ou...

Fear is an emotion that stops us from doing harm to ourselves, or to things we care about. It is an emotion that helps in loss prevention. You absolut...

Thomas Quine, thank you are gracious to both consider, and defend my line of questioning as a possibility. You have the mind of a true philosopher! Ti...

I read about half of it tonight Pfhorrest. Really nice write up of your personal philosophical beliefs. You actually wrote something, where many would...

I suppose it depends on what you mean by significant. If you think spatial size is significant, then I suppose we are insignificant in comparison to e...

thewonder, after seeing your replies and your reasons, I don't think this is a real plan. What you're doing is having a 30 year life crisis. I'm neari...

Funny point. The human species has a massive variety in how and what we like to think about. For those of us who like thinking about philosophical que...

Hi thewonder! A nice set of questions! I find in education there is an overemphasis on, "Pursue your passion," which tries to elevate college and your...

Maybe this can help with the problem of evil. Its all in the definitions. The idea of the "Omni's" really isn't about God, but about their limitations...

If you're going to say a field is invalid, you're going to need more than an opinion. Lets look at it this way. Economists are hired by businesses and...

When I was young, I decided I wanted to be a philosopher. I obtained my master's degree before ultimately deciding the field was not for me. I went an...

I think you're forgetting energy here. Think of it this way. You can have a car with a working battery, and a car without a working battery. A "living...

I'm sorry if I'm interrupting the current conversation here, but I think the concept of "assists human flourishing" is too self-centered on humanity. ...