BlueBanana

Being in a state that is logically inconsistent with being asleep and dreaming does not imply that one can distinguish the two states, because the inc...

It was implied that the tone of the post was the reason for deletion, ie the post's message was pretty much "this study confirms the inferiority of ni...

So how do you solve the paradox?

But is the answer to the question yes or no? Just curious. I'm not against the deletion either way.

I came here with the intention of throwing a couple of grenades myself in the name of liberalism, but was instead converted by the mods. Just to be su...

So the survival of the fittest is incorrect because it's incorrectly named?

I think those quotes summarize your bias on the matter.

Do they? The comparison suggests they can be measured so the infinity is quantitative.

Good one!

Sure you do ;)

Haha, good try. This world is lacking your personal opinion on the matter!

It's what the word means in the context of the survival of the fittest though.

The problem is anything can be quantified. Find something that can't, and when we define it as infinite, voilà.

That could is the key word. Would, but could not. That doesn't mean they're claiming the opposite. And that's only natural sciences, psychology (for e...

So you believe that scientific approach is the same thing as hard determinism?

There is no story of no-mind. It's either believed that mind exsts but is caused by chemicals in our brain, or that while mind can't be explained by t...

Science does not claim that there's no intent, nor does it claim there is. It only proves that the butcher did shoot the baker, and describes in detai...

1) They aren't stories because they are descriptions, not explanations, and based on either our observations or common sense. 2) None of them contradi...

It just happens. Denying scientific truths because they are too messy and chaotic or don't reveal a big reason and explanation behind everything is di...

Let's say I agree. How about any non-creative evolutionist view? And to get back to the track, is there any scenario the spaghetti bowl doesn't explai...

Of course the mind is there, but why not the materialistic or even any non-creative evolutionist interpretation of mind?

This is all 100% irrelevant and just semantics. Do you agree on that memories exist as electric signals in the brain and are transformed into memories...

I am familiar with how a computer works. What we're disagreeing on whether it's the image anymore if it's coded as 0s and 1s. The image is information...

If the computer is the receiver, what sends the image? Nothing, it exists in the computer, just in another form.

That form the image. With TV you had a point because the images aren't stored in the TV but they come from outside it. Why couldn't the mind, images o...

Do you have any actual first hand experience on microbiology research? Afaik we know how living organisms work and there are no gaps that élan vital w...

If I was to continue further into the materialistic direction, I'd argue that yes there is. Look into a computer, can you see the images? No, but they...

I completely second this, and as a radical liberalist it takes a lot to make me say you shouldn't say an opinion out loud. On the topic of the opposit...

Furthermore, this can be easily proven by opening up the TV and inspecting its parts and how they work because of how advanced our technology is. We c...

And what observations should I make from them?

It's not any more complex than the nature it's trying to describe, which is pretty damn complex. That's because those theories are there to describe, ...

This conclusion seems like a hasty one to make. Maybe the ancient one is the incorrect one.

What you're saying is that you have a mind that is creative and tries to adapt, and therefore there's a mind operating at all instances of life that i...

What facts point at that they're evolving in different directions because of their minds?

There is no proof for most of those theories because there is nothing to prove. They only describe the chaotic reality. One of the few things that can...

This is not all the term implies. I obviously believe in creative mind, but not its role in evolution that creative evolution gives to it. The materia...

So your argument is that because of complexity of human mind, actions, culture, survival in modern society regardless of our genes etc. we choose our ...

True, but the evolution of biological organisms isn't the same thing as understanding life.

You lost me there. Are you claiming that the survival of the fittest and creative evolution are the same thing by different names? Btw, I'm don't beli...

Increase.

I agree on that but it doesn't prove I'm expressing all the creativity I could. As for the discussion on creativity in our societies, I partially agre...

I have creativity but it doesn't mean I buy a canvas to utilize that creativity, and the existence of canvas doesn't imply expressions of creativity e...

Let's take two premises: -Different beings have different probabilities of surviving and successfully reproducing. -Offspring of any being at least pa...

Because there's no asolute fitness, it always depends on the environment, and other beings are part of that. When no wombats exist, only kangaroos do,...

Should we? This is what we're seeing but the survival of the fittest model alone does not imply that. The kangaroo, for some reason, must be the fitte...

In a sense, as even the adequate have a possibility of surviving, but in the long term the fittest have a greater possibility of that, which is what t...

Apart from the survival of the fittest the only factor I can think of is randomness (including mutations), even when accounting for humans meddling wi...

Quite the opposite, I'd say: irreductionist is only describing the situation by generalizations and taking a look at the bigger picture. The reduction...

This is not true. Survival of the fittest is not only a model, it's a factor that does try to eliminate variance, but there are other factors.

If genders and gender roles didn't exist, how could gender discrimination or gender related problems exist?