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Well if a human has conscious thoughts, the human can at least know that his "mind" is real. But yes, the rest can and is very likely a digital projec...

I've never heard that it's immoral to believe in the simulation argument. I guess if you're trying to escape from something, then it is irrational and...

That's a good point as well. If I'm envious of people, then I believe they are a simulation. Although, I'm not sure that would work, because the pain ...

But which one does it stem from? Why is the simulation argument a product of greed, anger, pride, sloth, gluttony, or envy. What argument could we mak...

Plus how do you know the Old Testament has anything relevant to say about God. Perhaps thats a misconstrued word of God. Gods mind is infinite, how co...

Well a simulation hypothesis is not immoral. I'm sorry, but I cannot read the entire Old Testament based on a post from some guy name Greg. That just ...

That's a good point, why wouldn't God allow us to choose a sin, but prevent us from carrying it out. Maybe those who are sinned against are not real s...

Well in the child rape case, a I guess a Theist could argue that for there to be good and evil, there ought to be a choice between committing good and...

Well God's nature is derived from God's mind. If we cannot understand the infinite mind of God, whose to say that we can understand his nature. We may...

I guess to add to this, one may say that animals are re-incarnations of evil doers, like Hitler or something. This way, the evil doers are imprisoned ...

Theist may say that God's infinite mind is too complex to understand for one of us. Perhaps there is more to it, than this argument. The other possibi...

I guess I can try to play the devils advocate here. What would a good Christian say? Perhaps they would say that God wants you to get lost for a very ...

That is true. Something external must exist. Somewhere there is a real world. However, this world could only be an illusion. The other problem is, if ...

It's all in the OP. It delves from Cartesian doubt about the external world, to Hume-ean skepticism, and finally arriving at a solipsism-ist position....

The point here is about the solipsism-ist argument from the OP.

The language about race can be considered "sense data" from the external world. The premise or premises do not imply any belief about the external wor...

"Here" is your post. "Point" is the discussion.

This same line applies here: However, even though this data may be meaningless, it can, nonetheless, be used to illustrate a point.

It doesn't seem like that to me. Nonetheless, I appreciate your comments.

I am a human. "I think, therefore, I am!"

Using our 'sense organs,' we gather 'sense data' from the "perceived" external world.

However, even though this data may be meaningless, it can, nonetheless, be used to illustrate a point.

Descartes later-meditations, after the Evil Genius hypothesis, in those he does reach the idea that God is good and would not deceive him or us. Howev...

Those matters cannot be owned, because as Descartes pointed out, an Evil Genius can deceive us about any or all of our sensory experience. However, ev...

That is the "sense data" we gathered from what we "perceive" to be a "real world." So, perhaps it's an example that can be used, while itself may be m...

Perhaps a solipsism-ist in this sense is still bound to their sense organs from which sense data can be gathered, like the use of a certain language. ...

Ok, thanks for your comments :) ... good or bad

Thank you for your response Bitter Crank, but how would you consider Cartesian, Solipsism-tian, and Hume-ean ideas applied to this? Or let me add this...

At this time, I will not be editing the OP. Again, the only thing I will say is I did not design this to troll. And I don't believe we should suspect ...

I appreciate your response praxis, but again the only thing I will say to this is I did not design this to troll.

I'm sure no one here beats their wife. There's no reason to start fighting like this.

That's fine DingoJones. I still appreciate Praxis reply.

I appreciate you replying to my thread, but all I can say to your comment is I did not design this to troll.

I did not design this discussion to troll.

This is not designed to troll. It's an application of Cartesian and Solipsism-tian doubt to the issue of racism. (and Hume-ean doubt)

No, I'm not trying to troll.

That's a good point, but I'm considering this from a solipsism perspective.

Those are great arguments Michael. As you point out, GDP would have increased anyway. So, based on this argument, we were not better off economically ...

Thanks for your response Tim. What do you mean by he has killed? I guess the whole thing with trump being a liar, narcissist, a traitor, etc ... I'm w...

Pro Trump: 1) America is going back to its core values. (i'm not sure what this means :) .. i just want to say it ) 2) America is tougher on internati...

I think to answer the question "What is the purpose of the Universe?" you ought to consider some possibilities of what is behind the curtain: 1) The u...

The matrix I think is silly in some sense. While a great presentation of a dream world based on our reality, I think it would take you years to truly ...

Yes that's why I tried to avoid this contradiction, TheMadFool, by setting in an unquestionable rule in this scenario that only 1 person is real while...

But in a way what you bring up would be a huge problem. You would be constantly torn between thinking that human AI can feel when in this scenario it ...

This is a new discussion. My discussion involves only human AI that mimics but does not replicate humans.

The problem here is that human AI are not "replicating" but mimicking. In other words, they mimic emotions but they don't feel anything. They mimic th...

I think the problem you would constantly face is letting go. Whenever you go out into the world or wake up next to your spouse, you would have a huge ...

You're making an assumption in this scenario that AI are people. My discussion says AI are computer programs that can perfectly mimic humans. Therefor...

So when Neo found out he was 'The One' in the Matrix, it didn't mean he was the chosen one. It meant he was literally 'The Only' person in the Matrix.