As presented in the Abrahamic traditions probably not. On the other hand if we take religion as belonging to ethnoscience - sometimes called "folk sci...
It's similar-ish to the whole chicken or egg debate. I'd only try to emphasize that seeds are parts of apples. We also consider seeds apart from apple...
The really smart ones would've raced to be the first under the meteor. The rest just suffer. However this one plays out, it's not going to be as elega...
In the case of an apple and its seeds, when we visualize and apple, we have to assume the seeds are inside. Otherwise we probably have in mind a piece...
I mean sure, that's one way to analyze it. A lot of people's intuitions and many laws in different countries, as far as I'm aware, consider it a gradu...
Drive by Incubus https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgT9zGkiLig Sometimes I feel the fear of Uncertainty stinging clear And I, can't help but ask myself ...
Depends on the stage of development the embryo is in. Is this related to an abortion argument? In the case of apples, we tend to throw them away once ...
Sure. And we can speak of such terms today in terms of genetics, though we have no clue how genes could contribute to the kind of innate knowledge we ...
What does the soul amount to in this? Would in be analogous to something like consciousness or experience. For this to be plausible, consciousness wou...
I don't follow very well. We may have different intuitions as people. When I think of an apple, I thinking about the exterior: the (usually) red skin ...
Yes. I guess the safest move if you disagree with a particular interpretation is to use arguments based on other physicists conclusions. So even if we...
This and simply charlatanry. You get people like Deepak Chopra making a killing from bamboozling people. As is often said, studying consciousness is s...
:up: Very much true, in terms of keeping up with peak experiences. It's not uncommon at all to find people who keep up trying to catch up with somethi...
You would know of all people. Even taking a straightforward case as the following is instructive. Take a more or less democratic state that is actuall...
If by "isms" you have in mind different philosophical views, such as rationalism, phenomenalism, liberalism and the like, you could say you reject all...
These are useful distractions for those in position of power. You get people going down the rabbit hole, and they'll never emerge. Focus on JFK, 9/11 ...
Doesn't something like this happen naturally? That is, cells die off all the time, but we still that we are the same at a moment to moment basis. As f...
There are a few novels that have done this to me. I suppose the best for me, which is very philosophical too, is called Novel Explosives by Jim Gauer....
I can relate to an extent. Though with me it's been (mostly) with novels. Not in my case writing so much, it's as if something in my experience shifts...
Damn, that's quite a cool capacity to have. I mean, yeah, it kind of sucks when the experiences are unpleasant but on the whole, it's different. Some ...
You have excellent taste in music. :wink: I remember a teacher of mine once saying that one of the most striking images of rationalists in general is ...
:cheer: I suppose if one reflects back to before birth and one tries to imagine that state, that might be "closest to dark" out of everything. There a...
Me neither. I don't quite follow his argument and what I can make out of it isn't persuasive. But of course I'll take panpsychism over consciousness d...
No it's fine, I like to see these type of reviews, I tend to agree with them. Yeah, it is strange. He says something like the other worlds are part of...
Yeah, sure. It has plenty of problems. I don't need to agree with an author in many aspects for me to like the book and think it's good. He is one aut...
Strictly speaking we all see uniquely, the way the world appears to each of us. I would be surprised if someone saw exactly how I saw so it makes tota...
You might be interested in taking a look at John Hand's Cosmosapiens. He discuses physics, and well every other major science in very, very interestin...
Again is Black Lives Matter or #MeToo part of being woke? If it is not, then by definition being woke is extreme and will lead to the divisions you de...
As with almost any concept we have, we can try to analyze them in many different ways. If you are interested in light from a theoretical perspective, ...
Then you associate all aspects of "woke culture" with the most extreme elements. Under than definition, all of it is extreme. This is now a changing a...
Those are the more extreme aspects of it, sure. But is, for example, #MeToo or BLM an aspect that falls under the broad brush "woke culture"? Or in us...
A lot of the more extreme woke stuff, like pointing out 50 genders or thinking that men are higher than women on average is a sexist comment, seems to...
By way of looking for laws of natures, yes. I think the ontology and metaphysics do not look for laws in this sense, I'd wager they are based on exper...
The kind of evidence they provide is less solid than evidence found in other branches of science. Personal accounts are quite less reliable that direc...
Well, maybe there can be confusion with ontology and metaphysics. So when Quine asks "What is there?", he is asking a question about ontology as he sa...
Well one route to go would be many worlds. Perhaps in some other world there are copies of us. We wouldn't be able to interact in any manner. Perhaps ...
Oh logic! How I wish I could follow as I do reading words. :lol: OK. But if the judge says you will be killed tomorrow, then how can he not know he's ...
Cosmology is the study of the origins of the universe, it's tied to astronomy. Ontology, a branch of metaphysics, is the field of philosophy that disc...
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