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You need an additional assumption to decide the question. It is not immediately clear whether the answer is true or false. Another example: Does the t...
October 06, 2021 at 07:08
What I am actually saying is that there are issues that are not subject to binary logic like opinions of different people. But there are also problems...
October 05, 2021 at 14:10
But everything depends on definitions. You wrote it yourself with Sorite's paradox. What is the use of insisting on binary logic if I cannot apply it ...
October 05, 2021 at 11:53
What if you talk about the evolutionary ancestors of cats? One researcher says that's already a cat, another says that's not a cat yet.
October 04, 2021 at 14:01
Didn't you read my question?
October 04, 2021 at 08:32
Do Brussels sprouts taste good? True or false?
October 04, 2021 at 07:57
You can also define that free will prevails when one has the feeling to decide freely. If there is coffee and tea in my kitchen and I decide for the t...
September 20, 2021 at 13:18
It depends on how you define free will. If you ask your friend if he wants coffee or tea and he chooses coffee, do you say: "That wasn't free will, be...
September 20, 2021 at 12:12
How many neurons or transistors does your brain work with?
September 16, 2021 at 09:54
Good point. But almost every action has disadvantages for someone (animals included). How do you want to offset these disadvantages? Or in other words...
September 11, 2021 at 11:04
Points 1 and 3 seem logical to me, but point 2 does not. Why is gang rape wrong, for example? Some have fun and there is only one victim. In the sense...
September 11, 2021 at 09:23
Sorry, I don't understand a word, not even the first sentence: "1. If Xing is wrong, then we ought not to do X". Who or what is "Xing"?
September 10, 2021 at 11:54
Ask yourself! :)
September 09, 2021 at 16:41
How do you know that X is wrong? That's just asking the question shifted. Example: Is it right or wrong for a resource-poor country to invade a resour...
September 09, 2021 at 10:47
No, but what is the point? Can you give an example of how to derive an ought state from a state of being?
September 09, 2021 at 09:43
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naturalistic_fallacy
September 09, 2021 at 07:33
What we should or should not do cannot be derived from being. Since determinism is part of being, it has no influence on ought. And the free will has ...
September 08, 2021 at 11:37
If death has no properties, what valuation does it have? How much suffering must someone experience in order to make it "worthwhile" to kill himself? ...
September 06, 2021 at 10:35
I don't think it matters to punish or to treat offenders. The only important thing is that offenders never harm society again, if possible. As far as ...
September 03, 2021 at 15:36
I do not understand. Both say there is a neutral substance in living beings and both say a stone has no consciousness.
August 30, 2021 at 16:15
Can anyone explain the crucial difference between panpsychism and neutral monism?
August 30, 2021 at 13:20
All respect. Rare that someone admits that someone else is right. Was a good try, but no one will ever solve the theodicy question. It's very simple: ...
August 17, 2021 at 20:45
I don't know any religion that fulfils that. It would be a kind of Hinduism without gods or Buddhism with souls. What I'm very interested in, what wou...
August 17, 2021 at 12:37
If you believe in rebirth, it automatically means that you want to preserve the future world. Do you need a God for souls to exist?
August 17, 2021 at 06:32
If you suffer 1 year and are happy for 9 years, then you have 10% suffering. If you suffer for 1 year and are happy for 99 years, then you have 1% suf...
August 11, 2021 at 13:26
No classical, quantum mechanical, electrodynamic, chemical, thermodynamic or emergent equation contains a term for the smell of a rose.
August 10, 2021 at 12:32
This infinity is never reached because it is only a potential infinity. We cannot be in the moment of "infinity" and therefore never have experienced ...
August 10, 2021 at 12:06
If you have a sum of positive and negative numbers and you change the negative numbers to zero, the sum grows. Simple mathematics.
August 09, 2021 at 20:43
If you take (b) and delete the bad you get (b+), which is better than (b), thus God could never choose (b).
August 09, 2021 at 14:31
I'm not the thread opener and I'm just making case distinctions. Why can't there be a universe WITH souls and WITHOUT gods?
August 07, 2021 at 16:23
That is not the question. The questioning presupposes goodwill. Then the existence of suffering is illogical. If God is not benevolent, then it is a d...
August 07, 2021 at 15:18
If God were all-powerful, all-knowing and all-good, wouldn't that be self-evident?
August 07, 2021 at 13:58
It seems to me that the formulation of the laws of nature as differential equations leaves room for several solutions. They are formulated from one po...
July 19, 2021 at 14:27
It's not about the triviality of you not being me or anyone else, it's about whether you COULD be someone else in a hypothetical world. So I can imagi...
July 16, 2021 at 11:51
It is not true that you always get out what you put in. The proof that sqrt(2) is irrational starts with assuming it is rational. I don't put anything...
July 16, 2021 at 08:11
I wanted to warm up my cold thread again and ask whether the existence of an immaterial instance can be regarded with my consideration now as proved. ...
July 15, 2021 at 16:25
The example of the stone may not be good because we cannot watch. Imagine someone in the desert praying for it to rain. It will then rain or not rain ...
July 08, 2021 at 08:45
I don't understand. If he does lift it, he obviously hasn't fulfilled the first condition.
July 07, 2021 at 06:14
How do you imagine this "nothing"? Is it like floating in a dark and silent room? Seeing and hearing nothing forever? A very terrible idea.
June 30, 2021 at 15:45
That is in the nature of things, that is philosophy. Yes, I'm just making assumptions. I assume that an animal feels pain when you hit it. You have to...
June 29, 2021 at 08:03
I assume that the "Qualia law" (matter->Qualia) is a law of nature similar to the other laws of nature, thus steady and time-independent. Like Newton'...
June 29, 2021 at 06:45
After all, I am a victim of my own arguments. That qualia can have no effect on the matter is logical, since every effect entails a contribution in a ...
June 28, 2021 at 16:33
There is an infinitesimally narrow gap of realization if someone has EXACTLY the inner configuration of oneself. Then it is to be assumed that the equ...
June 28, 2021 at 13:01
Exactly. I cannot know it. But I can accept it as plausible that I am not the exception in the universe. We are faced with the amazing situation of no...
June 28, 2021 at 10:57
It is the other way to eliminate qualia. However, this would mean that ethically speaking, any genocide would be the same as breaking stones. I think ...
June 28, 2021 at 10:23
Epiphenomenalism is true and we can prove it: If there would be a mind effect, this effect could be captured by the physicists, they will eat everythi...
June 28, 2021 at 10:01
I would actually phrase it a little differently. For me, time is the display of an imaginary clock. After all, it is not possible to place a clock ins...
June 07, 2021 at 15:50
Jellyfish, bacteria and viruses can reproduce well and have no brain.
May 13, 2021 at 13:06
... and the impotent ones are not self aware sentient.
May 13, 2021 at 12:50
I would say that qualia is not explained by information alone. Is your computer happy when it beats you in chess? If yes, why not?
May 12, 2021 at 08:06