I would say even on a materialist approach the memories themselves are part of our mind. And it seems okay to say that our body will not be the same, ...
I think the best way is to say that as soon you change it, it is not the same ship. This is contrary to the common way of identifying things, and woul...
That doesn't seem right to me. An object goes where its parts go. If the original parts were put back together, that would be The Ship of Theseus. And...
As you've alluded to, Ockham's Razor has a qualification that "all things being equal" the simplest explanation is usually the correct one. Let's say,...
We can only be said to have "free will" in that we make choices. Our making of choices isn't really free though. Once a compatibilist, I now agree wit...
It makes sense that the fewer barriers to something being true, the more likely it is to be true. It is commonly used against belief in god, but I don...
"“Relentless cuts” to the health service could be behind 30,000 deaths in 2015, argued researchers in two articles published in the Journal of the Roy...
Attlee's government transformed the country with the NHS. The trouble is, is the NHS run by generations of Tory governments any better than U.S health...
Can understand classic Star Wars and Star Trek, but LOTR never done anything for me. I should correct what I said earlier. I was using the homelessnes...
He brought universal healthcare and free university to Australia? And introduction or extension of legal aid? Have these things been normalised in Aus...
Planck's principle comes to mind. "Planck's principle is the view that scientific change does not occur because individual scientists change their min...
Have you become more optimistic or pessimistic about politics as you've got older? I've only just hit my 30s, and after being involved in politics thr...
My understanding was that dark energy, which expands the universe, gains proportionally from other forms of energy within the universe, and the total ...
But, good, bad, negative, positive, are all value judgments. A preference is not. When you say it is bad/negative to unduly torture, is it bad/negativ...
The proponents of both consequentialism and deontology having good intentions is different to consequentialism and deontology being good. I'm going to...
I use "morally right" and "morally correct" interchangeably. Are you using "right" to mean "good"? That's fair enough, but I still wouldn't say two co...
It is more academic than of practical consequence. I don't know if you're a consequentialist or deontologist, but my position would be that whichever ...
The problem is the foundation of your truth statement (your feelings) is the same foundation as the masochist and deranged people's foundation of thei...
Our feelings of what is morally right and wrong clash with other people's feelings of what is morally right and wrong. Who is right, the consequential...
That's only if you are asking different questions to each answer. If you keep asking why something is morally bad, eventually the answer to the questi...
Are you not misunderstanding what @"Leftist" is saying? Their position would be that murder and rape is neither good nor bad, and your say so doesn't ...
Just had a read of the article. It's completely different to what @"Bartricks" is saying but close to what @"Metaphysician Undercover" is saying (@"Me...
Thank God someone understood what I was saying. @"Bartricks" saying that it does not take energy for the spirits to be activated made my argument abou...
Yes, a ghost like Casper. If Casper started moving things in the physical world, but required no energy himself, he would be adding energy from nowher...
Yes, the immaterial is the spirit realm. According to @"Bartricks" immaterial things don't need energy to function. However, ghosts and minds would st...
Yes, all of our thoughts stem from something that is not our thoughts. Even if thoughts stem from our other thoughts, the first thought was caused by ...
"Man can do what he wills but he cannot will what he wills". It seems pretty obvious to me, however Nobel Prize winning Sir Roger Penrose says quantum...
Even if it doesn't require energy itself, if something immaterial like a ghost or a mind acts on the material world, wouldn't this create physical ene...
In this case, does it not take energy for the mind to be activated? Where does this energy come from? Also, mental energy turns into physical energy -...
Why do physicists believe it is then? When given the choice to throw out the conservation of energy or cartesian dualism, they tend to throw out the l...
It depends what definition of veganism you are using; philosophical of dietary. The Vegan Society says: "Veganism is a philosophy and way of living wh...
Don't want to get @"schopenhauer1" banned but their posts helped encourage me to join. I was already familiar with the literature but didn't know the ...
That is a good question. How can we judge an argument, when there can be no correct answer. For one, I would say ability to convince. I don't know how...
It would be science as opposed to antinatalism that beats lives of unbearable suffering. Although this is likely to take hundreds of years. I wouldn't...
I don't believe there are right and wrong answers to moral questions. It could be argued, we ought to do what we feel is right. Thus, if one feels the...
Save for editing our biology to remove the ability to suffer (as promoted by David Pearce) there is only antinatalism. Everything else is mitigation o...
While the vast majority may live happy lives, the hundreds of millions with lives of unbearable suffering are the sacrifice for this. I think there's ...
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