That's the animal's (your) view, perception, of its natural-selection-caused incentivization to get its fingers out of the fire, to avoid damage. What...
Andrew4Handel said: . . I replied: . . Wafarer says: . No, Andrew4Handel is entirely correct in that. Science has no account of how experience arises ...
This discussion has devolved to repetition, and nothing other than repetition. I suggest that we've all had our say. Hasn't this discussion run its co...
Both sides of this question have had their say. Now there's only repetition. I said what I wanted to say. Then you said what you wanted to say. I'd sa...
It's just the energy-source, immediate physical origin, and immediate physical reason for for Earth's life. :D Thanks,but I'll take my chances without...
Well, maybes there's a difference. You have some plants. You do an experiment on them--an experiment that is unlikely to harm them. But the plants die...
Not from a single different star, but rather from materials ejected from a number of supernovae. As I read it, at least, the heavier elements were for...
Even those people don't remember a previous life. Possibly their remarkably early abilities are consistent wlth attitudes, general approaches to life,...
In an earlier post, you'd said: . Philosophy of mind is garbage. …fiction. . What is “the mind”? It’s a figure-of-speech used to describe an aspect of...
A few more comments, to answer possible arguments about my suggested reincarnation-mode: . There might be some reluctance to accept that, in a stage o...
But no one's saying that the same individual can be both a friend and a foe. The proposition is just that, if a fool is a friend, then s/he's a more d...
Because we need them to dominate the world. But, aside from that, let me be the first to break the news that the Sun has importance more than just its...
Maybe, even probably, the Sun will be unaffected. You could argue that all of the solar-system's matter originated in the Sun anyway, and that the pro...
Yes, for some inexplicable supernatural, magical reason, individuals that survive long enough to reproduce seem to have more offspring. :D And, for so...
I should add that, when I first heard about the probe plan, and the article spoke of skimming the sun, it sounded like a closer approach than 5 solar ...
Yes, I was talking about metaphysics. We don't disagree because, as you said, we're talking about different matters. "Me" as fundamental would make a ...
So quantum potential is explained if there's Mind. You could say, "There's Mind, the Experiencer, because Reality wouldn't be meaningful to speak of w...
I'm not denying that it exists, or asking you to prove that it exists. I'm asking you why the Bohm quantum potential exists. You'll say you don't know...
Well, I asked a simple enough question. I'll repeat it: Why is there the un-embodied holographic universal memory-repository that you believe in? Whic...
One more comment: You brought up religion, your belief in a Creator. I answered about religion, basically stating something that i didn't agree with y...
Yes, you already said that, and I answered it. Or are you saying that you also don't understand the question: "Why is there the un-embodied holographi...
The difference is that I've told specifically what I find wrong with what you say. ...whereas you just make vague generalizations like the above-quote...
Why not? What do you have against superintelligent aliens? (...other than that there probably aren't any.) If you're in love with her, there's no reas...
Who were those two people? I haven't heard of them, and I don't know why they killed themseves. ...what their circumstances were. No, suicide isn't im...
No, you're saying more than that. According to your belief, no only did the mind start that process of evolution of ever more complex life-forms, but ...
So the mind of some one-celled organism decided to make it procreate a more complex organism...in a sequence of organisms whose minds decided to procr...
Alright, Rich, how do you account for there being a human species on the Earth? Morphogenic fields and morphogenic resonance? The out-of-body holograp...
I’d said: . . Wayfarer says: . . Forgive me the idiosyncrasy of suggesting that the rejection and avoidance of assumptions and brute-facts is skeptica...
Not a chance. People are animals, many lacking the attributes that some idealistically expect in humans, quite unable to live up to what some of us (f...
Alright,it's true that the consequences of people believing that everyone is the same "Me" would be a tremendously better societal world. ...quite unr...
Thanks for pointing out the possible worst-case-memory-use advantage of FPN. Maybe in the earlier days of computers, such an advantage could have been...
Then I'll refer you to my reply to Banno. Maybe you qualify for the benefit of the doubt--in case you really thought that I was referring to Greek Ske...
I'll just add that posting "arguments" (either very sloppy, or insincere) like the ones that I've just replied to wastes your time and mine (if I repl...
When I coin a usage or a term, or anyone coins a usage or a term,, it means, in the coiner's usage, what the word's coiner chooses it to mean--neither...
Differences between Skepticism (I've clarified several times that, by "Skepticism", I refer the metaphysics that I propose, not to Greek Skepticism), ...
I defined Skepticism as the name of the metaphysics that I propose, and I explicitly clarified that it isn't the Greek philosophy called Skepticism. N...
Sure, metaphysicses aren't the only unprovable propositions. And no doubt all proponents of metaphysicses would like to prove them. I just meant that ...
So they don't have different languages and customs? :) In any case, you didn't say why or how that would be relevant, even if true. ...because, of cou...
Physics doesn't have bearing on metaphysics ...unless it does in some special case, as described by that author on quantum-mechanics, who said that qu...
But maybe some disagreements aren't really substantive, but are really only differences in wording. That can eliminate some philosophical disagreement...
Regarding my explanation of reincarnation, in terms of it being consistent with Skepticism, someone could object, "I don't know--that transition from ...
You didn't say whose explanation of what you're referring to. Why not at least "mention" whom you're replying to, by clicking "reply" at the bottom of...
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