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To what extent does naturalism make statements about technology, ethics or politics? I don't see any connection. In my opinion, naturalism only says: ...
February 02, 2021 at 11:26
Bell's inequality can be explained with Bohmian Mechanics. You have a 3n-dimensional (n elementary particles) quantum potential, which is non-local. I...
February 01, 2021 at 12:26
It is not certain that he sees it as a rhetorical question. But the question with the identity of the gods is so clear that everything must collapse.
January 29, 2021 at 10:56
Could you please explain how a god with a son can be the same as a god without a son?
January 29, 2021 at 10:29
That is correct. The only certain thing is that we ourselves are conscious (I feel, therefore I am), but this cannot be proved to anyone else. In the ...
January 29, 2021 at 08:30
Counter question: How do you know that your computer/BASIC program is not aware when it says "I am aware that you have now pressed so-and-so key!"?
January 29, 2021 at 05:24
Let's make it even simpler. Let's say you have an identical twin brother who is almost always around you. Then you can't imagine being him either? Is ...
January 21, 2021 at 13:12
I don't get it. Let's make it simple. I think you can imagine (roughly) being another person (e.g. John Malkovich). Can you also imagine being all act...
January 21, 2021 at 12:51
That is a very good argument. I would like to add that someone can possibly still imagine being a fish, but no one can imagine being a school of fish....
January 21, 2021 at 12:29
I think the answer is the Schrödinger-Newton-Equation. "The regime where the mass is around 10^10 atomic mass units while the width is of the order of...
January 19, 2021 at 17:22
What about sheep? Is bleating a philosophical discussion?
January 19, 2021 at 09:25
That is pathetic. When someone is at a loss, they refer to an ominous have already explained. The status "not born" and the status "already dead" shou...
January 19, 2021 at 08:49
In what way is someone dead in a different way if they are not born than if they have lived and died? If a child is born with the exit-pill and it is ...
January 19, 2021 at 08:36
Suppose there were a pill that killed instantly, should parents be allowed to bring children into the world if the children were allowed to take that ...
January 18, 2021 at 18:46
Let's assume that's true. Children often say to their parents, "Why did you give birth to me?". The parents might reply, "What would you be if you had...
January 18, 2021 at 16:42
Of course I read it. Nevertheless, everything depends on the evaluation of self-non-existence. If self-non-existence is like hell, then you save someo...
January 18, 2021 at 16:11
In this "neutral" lies the problem. If death is self-non-existence, how are we to imagine it? Seeing nothing and hearing nothing? But the perception o...
January 18, 2021 at 09:49
@all: This question is easy to analyse, but probably impossible to answer. 1) There is rebirth, then you have to compare the probabilities of what the...
January 15, 2021 at 16:13
How to continue? Are there people here who think everything is physics? Please show your world view.
January 13, 2021 at 13:26
@"TheMadFool" I do not compare A with Z, but A with A* and Z with Z*. And of course I consider not only the body but also the memories. The memories a...
January 13, 2021 at 07:56
If physicalists don't answer to feelings/qualia, you just admit that physicalism is incomplete?
January 12, 2021 at 18:24
Compatibility is not enough. That 3 times 3 is 9 does not contradict the world formula, but it does not explain it either. Physicalism, as epiphenomen...
January 12, 2021 at 16:04
I can simplify the thought experiment even further. Let us assume that physicalism is true. Then the description of the world would simply be the part...
January 12, 2021 at 13:33
The teletransporting / copy-beam thought experiment shows that it is unclear what the objective solution is, not that there is none. Both the beaming ...
January 11, 2021 at 15:48
How is the brain state defined? Let's assume that a super technology makes it possible to replace every neuron with a functionally identical chip and ...
January 11, 2021 at 09:39
Let's assume that reincarnation is true. Would it make a difference to you which creature you were reborn as?
January 11, 2021 at 09:32
The brain changes every moment you learn or forget something => you are another person every minute. Please explain how you can be identical with a dy...
January 11, 2021 at 09:17
When you go to the toilet, how can you say you are the same person afterwards as before? Afterwards you are lighter than before, so you cannot be iden...
January 11, 2021 at 09:04
No, it isn't. It is simple set theory. You simply compare the set {A*,B,C,...,X,Y,Z} with the set {A,B,C,...,X,Y,Z*}, where the star indicates which l...
January 11, 2021 at 07:32
As already mentioned, the worlds should not exist simultaneously, but alternatively. Thus the question does not arise "where" these worlds are. A simp...
January 10, 2021 at 14:56
It is incredible how such a simple proof can be so misleading. Two ideas are compared. Can two ideas be identical or only the same? It does not matter...
January 10, 2021 at 10:39
Of course they are identical. This is the core of the proof, it is not a bug, it is a feature. More formal speaking you compare world A = ({A,B,C, ......
January 09, 2021 at 07:36
You compare two visions. They are not beside each other. They are alternatives. And they are not equal. It plays a role being one person or another. D...
January 08, 2021 at 19:39