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No it isn't. And again, you avoid the question. Yes we know atoms are mostly empty space, my question is so what? What point is there in knowing that?...
December 20, 2020 at 00:16
Duplicate in that art itself imitates something that already exists.
December 19, 2020 at 03:42
Thing is I do. Art is not creative. It's not creative to duplicate something you have seen before.
December 18, 2020 at 19:39
Again, way to avoid answering the question. Consciousness is not a mystery as we know it to be made by the brain. The mind does not exist. But no, con...
December 18, 2020 at 19:38
I feel like I don't have to explain how nonsensical that claim is. You can see the same objects I see and vice versa, this is easy to demonstrate. Exp...
December 18, 2020 at 07:30
Sadly I'm starting to be more of the view of Brett. It's not really creative if it isn't new or original, you are just copying from elsewhere. It's ha...
December 18, 2020 at 07:22
Nowhere, there would simply be no such thing as creativity as it's just replication. I mean you can't make something from nothing and everything made ...
December 17, 2020 at 19:09
Again, still not answering my question. I've already told you that anti realism is a philosophy that shoots itself in the foot just like solipsism.
December 17, 2020 at 18:25
But it's not really being creative though is it?
December 17, 2020 at 18:22
Not what I am getting at by any stretch but ok. You say your reality is real to you but how do you know? I mean anti realism would be against such a c...
December 17, 2020 at 05:06
Well art was always like that though.
December 17, 2020 at 05:01
Doesn't sound like a great way of understanding perception since you are essentially arguing that reality isn't real, which then makes one wonder why ...
December 16, 2020 at 21:00
Seriously though, I've never seen a more futile argument than anti realism.
December 16, 2020 at 18:49
Except it isn't though. Even with the Picasso Dora Marr you can tell it's her, there isn't anything original about it. There is nothing deep or philos...
December 16, 2020 at 17:45
Hoffman is a quack from what I gather on his book and from the science community not to mention we wildly misunderstands the concepts he uses for his ...
December 16, 2020 at 17:36
Those other philosophers need to wise up.
December 14, 2020 at 01:45
I don't see it as a valid question, more like a waste of time.
December 12, 2020 at 02:26
I believed he called it the reification fallacy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reification_(fallacy)
November 29, 2020 at 20:16
November 28, 2020 at 21:04
He also keeps throwing this at me but I've honestly never heard of it before: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triangle_of_reference#:~:text=The%20triang...
November 28, 2020 at 21:02
I mean technically you do observe mass when you weigh something on a scale and we do observe energy everyday in terms of color, light and soundwaves.
November 27, 2020 at 01:46
It's honestly hard to get at what they are trying to say because most of their posts are a mess to read. Saying that properties of matter are not real...
November 25, 2020 at 04:50
Yeah that's why I found it to be stupid. He said no one can detect or understand truth, if that's the case then why make an argument for the truth of ...
November 24, 2020 at 23:41
This sounds more like the epistemological version of the argument but I can't say I agree that there is NO reason to believe other people are other mi...
November 24, 2020 at 01:02
I mean that's not what we think though. There are events that cause other events to happen but I don't think that anyone would argue that they exist i...
November 21, 2020 at 03:12
As mentioned before I don't see how these things being concepts necessarily means that they don't exist.
November 18, 2020 at 21:15
Yeah I got into it with this guy on a different forum and something smelled off about pretty much every reply of theirs. Mind you they sent me like 4 ...
November 18, 2020 at 04:57
Or if you want to get at the direct version of it: https://qr.ae/pNUkcv "The origins of Solipsism in Western Philosophy comes from the Greek Pre-Socra...
November 16, 2020 at 00:43
Well I was referring to the pages in general, mostly 4 and 5, which state that a belief in others is not warranted as we have no evidence for any of t...
November 15, 2020 at 23:23
https://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/13665046/fpart/5/vc/1#13665046 “ Those who claim for themselves to judge the truth are bound to p...
November 14, 2020 at 18:37
That's not what the epistemological version states. It's just uncertainty about the existence or lack thereof of an external world/reality or other pe...
November 11, 2020 at 05:16
How is that muddled? Though consciousness implies there is something to be conscious of. Sensation implies input from externality. Though solipsism wo...
November 10, 2020 at 07:13
Actually as far as solipsism goes that is pretty much it. I think therefor I am. That's all, there is a reason it's called a dead end. "
November 10, 2020 at 03:17
That seems to be the case. There is often confusion between the metaphysical and epistemological verisons. "I don't think that solipsism states that n...
November 09, 2020 at 21:33
https://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/4846074/fpart/3/vc/1#4846074 "Any type of sensory input. We divide this sensory input into catego...
November 08, 2020 at 21:17
As was stated above a modern philosopher cannot evade it under certain models. It's also not as ridiculous as it sounds: "I will begin by saying that ...
November 08, 2020 at 19:22
Except it is about issues with experience based logic as I have tried to show is the case here. Solipsism would also argue that all sensation that one...
November 08, 2020 at 18:01
That's not true though. Because there are others around me I am not alone. I don't think alone, and I hopefully won't die alone. But if solipsism were...
November 08, 2020 at 05:02
There's also some evidence from quantum physics to suggest solipsism: https://qr.ae/pNgq9Q https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relativistic_quantum_mechanic...
November 08, 2020 at 00:50
"In solipsism, only the mind exists. It is important to note that the mind refers not to the brain, or one's ego perception, but the totality of all t...
November 08, 2020 at 00:37
That's my case. I think that because something is logical that it must be true. I'm still getting used to the whole "valid but not true" thing. I mean...
November 07, 2020 at 20:48
No, the definition of self that you provided is enough and somewhat one the lines of what I think a self is as all. I know there is the argument of P-...
November 07, 2020 at 19:07
I heard it said a lot that it is logically consistent and can't be refuted. I mean all I can be aware of is my own conscious experience and it's possi...
November 07, 2020 at 17:35
Again butchering QM to make a point. The person in the article misunderstands observation as it applies to QM thinking that it means consciousness whe...
November 07, 2020 at 17:15
It's not really a prejudice when it's a known "fact" that metaphysics is a useless branch of philosophy. Introducing that into QM is likely to cause m...
November 07, 2020 at 00:39
I just don't see doubting as a valid form of argument because the same thing can be done right back to you to the point that no one really gets anywhe...
November 06, 2020 at 02:09
Trauma is actually rather complex but it has nothing to do with a subconscious. It's literally wiring in the brain. Recent developments in neuroscienc...
November 06, 2020 at 02:08
I don't know what you think pulling dictionary definitions prove or support in your arguments as nothing you have so far shows that quantum physics is...
November 05, 2020 at 18:22
Freud was a quack because his who body of work tried to pass itself for science when he had no evidence that any of it was a thing. He could not see p...
November 05, 2020 at 18:14
But you are still working though, we are talking about flat out just not working at all. That is parasitic, it seems you misunderstood me.
November 04, 2020 at 20:03