Bird-Up

It's a shame to consider all the violence that has stemmed from merely using our own language incorrectly. Standing over two graves and saying: "They ...

If God does exist, he is either morally unreasonable, or simply not too bright. Neither quality would justify following him and endorsing his behavior...

Stricter gun control makes sense because we have a lot to gain by enforcing minor inconveniences. People who oppose gun control will always point out ...

Any animal that interacts socially will have its own unique brand of morality. But as humans, we can only relate to human morality. That's the only mo...

Well the discussion was giving off a strong scent of Antinatalism, so I just had to throw the word in there. I'll try to get caught up on those 4,500 ...

Antinatalism, anyone? I would agree that humans will eventually escape the limits of their own suffering. As long as we strive to master our own bodie...

I would agree that humans have a special brand of misery unique to ourselves. Seems like a combination of self-awareness and expectations. Animals are...

If you want to get technical, yes, the apparently-illogical may exist as "logic" outside of our known logic. As humans we cannot (for certain) disting...

The word "illogical" does not refer to things which are difficult to understand. It refers to situations where reasoning is missing. For example, the ...

I think "real" is very close in definition to "most-common". If one person sees a ghost, but 99 people do not see the ghost, then the ghost is declare...

Glad to hear I said something useful. Unfortunately, it sounds like you are still wrestling with the problem. You make it sound like you got to have a...

I think it would be both correct and incorrect to say that the flow of the universe is elusive. Let's use the night sky as an example. If someone set ...

It could be even more interesting to draw an analogy to the color magenta. Magenta is the color that comes after violet and before red. But it doesn't...

Sorry to hear that you are stuck in an existential crisis of sorts. That's a rotten place to be. An interesting comic! It highlights one of the more s...

I think you've hit on the important part right here. To be more specific, if you are unhappy to begin with, life will seem to lose its meaning. The op...

Hmm good answer. I suppose there are other ways to explain consistent events. Maybe I am a solipsist but don't realize it yet.

If someone (a neuroscientist, for example) says that they couldn't find the consciousness, I would challenge their assumption that it could be found t...

I think you are right that there is only one ought, in the sense that there can only be one mathematical middle-ground between two competing desires. ...

I have decided that this is how I want to start every conversation from now on. Shame and guilt work wonders when you need to distract from your own g...

Hi Koen! What do you think about sleep? Don't you always seem to wake up in the same place where you fell asleep the night before? Even after you trav...

Yes, I can certainly imagine a robot that does human tasks without the use of consciousness. But if you mean the robot literally functions exactly the...

In my opinion, the assumption that consciousness is binary in nature, would be the wrong place to start. It doesn't seem like a case of definitely con...

Nobody said that God is just and loving. But that's how he's advertised in the Bible. In order to worship Satan, one would first have to subscribe to ...

There are quite a few ways to define the word "bad". If by "bad" you mean improper or abnormal, then I would agree that suffering is a normal part of ...

It's possible, though unlikely, that Satan could be worshiped truly independent from God. Satan is certainly presented as the antagonist of the Bible....

I agree that comparing philosophy to science helps us get a better perspective on what philosophy is. Both are navigations of logic, where the goal st...

The mind is a type of functionality. Functionality can't be expressed with one state. It is about the change that takes place over several physical st...

The mind is functionality and information. So in one sense, it is not physical. But that could be misleading. How do you record information without so...

And those who never purchase meat cannot influence the direction of the meat industry. So a vegan is letting the meat industry continue on unhindered,...

Nobody has mentioned Descartes yet? He wondered if everything was really just nothing. He came to the conclusion that at least his consciousness was b...

Empathy is a reality of the human mind that developed to help us live as social creatures. We use terms like "Psychopath" to refer to brains that are ...

Not sure that he's literally referring to the act of birth. I interpreted it to mean the beginning of a human consciousness.

I think determinism is the most straightforward way to address the idea of multiple possibilities existing at the same time. Saying that anything coul...

Yes, I agree that people don't exist before they exist. However, sometimes it is metaphorically useful to speak as if humans somehow exist outside of ...

I don't think the definition of "everything" can include the illogical. That would be like using the lack of a definition to create a new definition. ...