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- Sun May 27, 2018 6:59 pm
- Forum: Metaphysics
- Topic: The Simulation Argument
- Replies: 210
- Views: 37574
Re: The Simulation Argument
No amount of individual experience will allow you to know the nature of the source of that experience - for instance, whether it is "naturally real" or whether it is virtual - what kind of turtles the universe rests on, how many of them there are, and whether they are naturally evolved tur...
- Sun May 27, 2018 6:44 pm
- Forum: Articles in Philosophy Now
- Topic: Why Physicalism is Wrong
- Replies: 358
- Views: 71993
Re: Why Physicalism is Wrong
Physicalists say all events can be explained completely by causal chains of previous physical events. This was, roughly, the scientific worldview before the discovery of quantum physics. Now we know, however, that some events at a subatomic level are affected by whether there is an observing mind. ...
- Sun May 27, 2018 6:23 pm
- Forum: Articles in Philosophy Now
- Topic: Why Physicalism is Wrong
- Replies: 358
- Views: 71993
Re: Why Physicalism is Wrong
So many would like to be materialists, and also believe in other minds. Why? The senses directly reveal behaviors of others, not consciousness. If physical laws are not deemed sufficient to generate the behaviors, then one is not a materialist. If the physical laws *are* deemed sufficient to generat...
- Fri Mar 02, 2018 7:07 pm
- Forum: Philosophy of Religion
- Topic: Go to hell
- Replies: 33
- Views: 8516
Re: Go to hell
a god who would send people to hell permanently is a joke
that out of the way, it might be a worthwhile experience for everyone to spend a little time in hell now and then
that out of the way, it might be a worthwhile experience for everyone to spend a little time in hell now and then
- Tue Feb 27, 2018 2:21 pm
- Forum: General Philosophical Discussion
- Topic: Information does not exist as such
- Replies: 143
- Views: 27310
Re: Information does not exist as such
Hi all
This question about what "exists" comes down to the solipsistic question.
Is there "stuff" or is it all "information" being fed to the perceiver?
This question about what "exists" comes down to the solipsistic question.
Is there "stuff" or is it all "information" being fed to the perceiver?
- Mon Feb 26, 2018 5:11 pm
- Forum: General Philosophical Discussion
- Topic: What is Choosing and How Did it Start?
- Replies: 1
- Views: 976
What is Choosing and How Did it Start?
I did a search for "Evolutionary Psychology" - a topic I find of interest. I was brought to this index page: https://www.psychologytoday.com/basics/evolutionary-psychology A few entries down I find this What is Choosing and How Did it Start? By Jeremy E Sherman Ph.D. How can we have free w...
- Sun Feb 18, 2018 7:10 am
- Forum: Philosophy of Science
- Topic: What do we know in science?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 3372
Re: What do we know in science?
No question that science is fluid. This leads to the next question: how do we tell the difference between science and nonscience or science and pseudoscience? Does science have limits? Are the methods of science fluid? Science is not a body of truths, but a method for evaluating models of the world...
- Thu Feb 08, 2018 9:59 pm
- Forum: General Philosophical Discussion
- Topic: Information does not exist as such
- Replies: 143
- Views: 27310
Re: Information does not exist as such
Remember the often neglected truth: The scientific method can tell you a lot but it can't tell you anything about the 2 most important beliefs and individual has: * The world is real and not just in your mind * In that real world, seemingly governed by physical laws, other people have subjective ex...
- Thu Feb 08, 2018 6:39 pm
- Forum: General Philosophical Discussion
- Topic: Information does not exist as such
- Replies: 143
- Views: 27310
Re: Information does not exist as such
As a nondualist I actually fail to see a difference between the two, it's an odd categorization. If anything, it's slightly backwards, since these secondary qualities are direct experiences in the head, and the primary qualities are conceptual direct experiences in the head. Remember the often negl...
- Tue Jan 02, 2018 10:08 pm
- Forum: Philosophy of Mind
- Topic: Experiencing of experience
- Replies: 12
- Views: 4957
Re: Experiencing of experience
It is possible since all that is required are a mind which is the function of a brain and a physical body to have experiences No, first person consciousness is apparently more than the function of a brain because all brain functions can be explained just fine from a third person perspective. Brain ...
- Sun Dec 31, 2017 6:07 am
- Forum: Philosophy of Mind
- Topic: Leibniz's mill and the "Hard problem of consciousness"
- Replies: 381
- Views: 98975
Re: Leibniz's mill and the "Hard problem of consciousness"
"Suppose that there be a machine,the structure of which produces thinking,feeling and perceiving; imagine this machine enlarged but preserving the same proportions, so that you could enter it as if it were a mill. This being supposed, you might visit its inside; but what would you observe ther...
- Fri Dec 15, 2017 12:21 am
- Forum: Philosophy of Mind
- Topic: Dualism II
- Replies: 38
- Views: 12090
Re: Dualism II
At some point in scientific endeavor and study of the brain comes: the problem of other minds.
- Mon Dec 11, 2017 6:57 pm
- Forum: Philosophy of Science
- Topic: Relativity?
- Replies: 1111
- Views: 381816
Re: Relativity?
Theories must be tested. It takes elbow grease. Otherwise you're just writing poetry.
- Fri Dec 08, 2017 4:38 pm
- Forum: Philosophy of Mind
- Topic: The irrefutability of Duality and the recognition that consciousness is physical
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3518
Re: The irrefutability of Duality and the recognition that consciousness is physical
The Cartesian demon doesn't apply here as a proof of Solipsism remotely, it is if anything proof of duality, by isolating the individual through illusion, as separate and not the same thing. A true Solipsists would never accept this, if they did, they would instantly cease being Non-Dual. They of c...
- Mon Dec 04, 2017 5:48 pm
- Forum: Philosophy of Mind
- Topic: The irrefutability of Duality and the recognition that consciousness is physical
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3518
Re: The irrefutability of Duality and the recognition that consciousness is physical
Fail. You merely asserted a Dualism between the Demon and I exist, and that a Illusion is sourced in you, and not myself. So you proved my point, with drama and efficiency. Thank you. I asserted there is something outside of "your conscious mind" or "your conscious self" that is...