1. God is ultimate reality. 2. Truth is absolute, although our limited ability to perceive the whole truth at once explains why it can appear relative...
Hope you are doing well. As to the matter of truth... I've decided to keep it, whilst including a section comparing it to knowledge. Allow me to expla...
the main thing that I would like to know is whether the argument is valid/rigorous or not. There were some additions in that passage compared to the f...
Just a couple of points/questions quickly... To the first post: Doesn't your counter-argument run the risk of making the concept of "truth" convoluted...
Also, as a side note I thought I would throw this your way... It's a passage that I've just written up near the outset of my second draft which might ...
Discovered a fragment of the argument today which is worth throwing your way... please note that I am no longer focusing on how the argument is direct...
Thanks for the engagement. This is to chime-in to say that I am currently working on this problem. Also, I am currently trying to update the initial d...
The argument has undergone much development since the OP and some of the structure, including some of the definitions, have changed. I would like to e...
Hmm... this is complicated (which is unsurprising)... but this is good because it's giving me an idea of just what the model can or cannot do. A few t...
Right, that's cleared things up and okay - I think I now agree that the argument has over-reached itself. A belief can be about a goal, which is why t...
A good weekend to you too. Interesting criticisms... On the one hand, I think that I agree that I might be blending goals too closely with knowledge, ...
Good, really good. This is a great place to be. First of all, it's interesting that you say: Large chunks of what I'm doing have been a matter of allo...
So, I got to thinking about what problems the theory is trying to solve. You might not have known, but I released a book about a year ago when I was t...
That's pretty funny... my initial reaction was to be incensed by this, thinking "But if it's logical and all of the arguments follow necessarily from ...
Fantastic. And so, before we proceed it is worth double-checking to be sure whether you agree with the argument. It's good to know that you have concl...
No, my apologies - I really could have phrased this line better. I was trying to make a clear point by stating a tautology. What I should have said wa...
Another point of clarity could come from tightening the connection to Christianity. According to Christianity, God can judge because He is such a bein...
This is looking good. Not because we appear to be in 100% agreement, but because the issues appear to be thinning out and most of the core logic appea...
Hello my friend, good to hear from you. Thank you for giving my work your time. I hope that your week went well and that you've had the chance to enjo...
Here is the result of our discussion thus far: revised, re-formulated and condensed: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1aF6uYKp3-Q8ee3X-8QDuBg17cc1cu...
Fantastic. This has been an invaluable means for testing, strengthening and clarifying the core argument. You have my sincere thanks for your commitme...
Good stuff. It occurred to me that the solution to this is quite easy; you can appeal to the hierarchy of one's goals and conclude that one cannot bel...
Fantastic! Great, I think that we're making progress. I've got a few responses to make which might clarify I few points... No, in fairness this is kin...
No, "knowledge" is just "potential knowledge" I'm taking this from your advice in your previous posts... we cannot go so far as to say that we have "t...
An additional thought occurred to me... Remember that goals set the criteria for knowledge but that these criteria can be more precise depending on wh...
You raised 3 particularly interesting points/questions that I would like to answer in no particular order... Excellent, we are in agreement here - thi...
... and a great response. Thank you, there is some helpful stuff here. To begin my response I will start by stating that I understand where you are co...
Good timing. I just got the last part of my argument down last night with the view of writing it up today. It took some revision but I'll copy my fina...
Right, now I've hit a bit of a speed-bump and would like to get your thoughts/assistance on it. Allow me to back-track the line of thought first... No...
Right Sarge, reporting from the front. Still working on processing the arguments but his a milestone and thought I would share some of the findings......
No... not necessarily. Although, it may depend on how broadly we define "religion". The case that I was/am trying to make is that one need not appeal ...
Right, so, I've got a jumble of things to present to you today... First of all, your work is a treat to read - especially now that we've had a bit of ...
This is where we might be tripping over one-another because this is essentially what I'm trying to say. But you have my apologies if I've not made my ...
Respectfully, I'm not sure whether the position requires an assumption of panpsychism and we may be speaking at odds if two definitions of life are be...
I'm conceiving of life as conscious awareness, in the sense that a subject can only know that it is "alive" if it has conscious awareness which may be...
How would one demonstrate that consciousness resides in or arises from an information processor? Consciousness is proven within the subject. For examp...
Yes, I will do. Now that we have reached this point it is a good time to get a handle on your arguments. However, I won't be able to do so tonight and...
See, it's so tricky because on the one hand we can recognise how important your questions are and on the other, despair of answering them. I'm sceptic...
Yeah, it's interesting, right? The two do seem to interact and so there is some connection there. That's why the hard question appears to be so weird....
That's a fair contention. Of course, the wedge that we could drive here is to appeal to the "hard question of consciousness". If consciousness was pro...
I'm not contending this. I am contending the relevance to this post and it is irrelevant. It does not, by itself, demonstrate that an afterlife is pos...
That is a redundant observation. What was addressed from the first paragraph of the OP is that the argument is addressed to those who currently regard...
These are all important questions to consider and so, please, don't take my not answering them as a dismissal. Instead, please, understand that I woul...
& @"schopenhauer1" I fear that we will start irritating each other by moving in circles and so I will attempt to be concise in re-stating my case for ...
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