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As Searle pointed out: solipsism refutes itself. If you're a solipsist, you don't believe this forum and its people actually exist. Expecting that a second solipsist shows up implies wanting solipsism to be proven false. Solipsism is a little like the Big Bang Theory. If you follow theory to its lo...

You'll have to start by explaining 2, before going on to the 3,4 and 5. What is a temporal entity?

"it approximates itself in a temporal reality and maintains a dual relativistic temporal nature embodied by the one dimensional line and zero dimensional point as corresponding and equivalent spatial entities."

This is utter nonsense.

"Considering all rational number is both composed of one and "constant" in nature, a mirror effect of perpetual symmtry through 1 as reflecting itself does not contradict anything in current mathematics." This makes no sense. What does it mean for a number to be composed of something? All abstract ...

It's a sign of freedom that you have responsibilities. It's a weak and therefore unfree man who shrugs off responsibilities. If there really was Free Will, what a responsibility that would be! The only person capable of bearing the responsibility of Free Will would be God. "If we concede that human...

Yes, but only in so far as nothing is physical - that is, the argument goes not only for consciousness, but everything else too. But that just means we cannot prove that the physical world (and physical consciousness) exists - it does not mean that they must not exist. Am I right? There's still one...

I think that we do not define all symbolism as language. True, we cannot think without symbolizing, but that is not necessarily language. You need a word to determine that symbol. "Symbolism" itself is a language (lexical) pattern :) Were arguing over the definition of language and how broad it is....

It's a sign of freedom that you have responsibilities. It's a weak and therefore unfree man who shrugs off responsibilities. If there really was Free Will, what a responsibility that would be! The only person capable of bearing the responsibility of Free Will would be God. "If we concede that human...

"Considering all rational number is both composed of one and "constant" in nature, a mirror effect of perpetual symmtry through 1 as reflecting itself does not contradict anything in current mathematics." This makes no sense. What does it mean for a number to be composed of something? Or to be 'in n...

Presented Argument: 1) "1" exists as "unity" and "wholeness". 2) As unity and wholeness "1" must maintain a self-reflective symmetry in order to exist. We observe this in common life where a physical or abstract structure maintains its stability through the reflection of points, with these points i...

we use language to "name" things and define feelings as well as observations around. once you decide on another system of codes to communicate - for example, the image of chair will serve as a definition of "have a seat" - you might start thinking by images, lines/dots, etc. :) but i think it's clo...

Apologies in advance for the lack of rigor and sophistication I'm about to display. Also for verbosity. I just want to be as clear as possible. tl;dr: If you recognize the impossibility of disproving solipsism, then it should be clear that consciousness is not meaningfully physical. It can be argue...

We can indeed think without language.However,there are certain kinds of thinking that are made possible by language.How did caveman think before developing language?Thinking process is actually considering concepts. No language is required for that.Just the concept is necessary to carry out the ide...

"A" ( consciousness ) must precede "B" ( the thought) if it caused "B". "A "cannot precede "B", ( because if "A" could precede "B" that would mean that you are aware of a thought before you think it ) therefore " A" cannot have caused "B". Therefore consciousness cannot cause thoughts. Since free w...

Status of verbal reports. That sounds like more philosophy than I know. What's the status of verbal reports that the sun rose in the east today? Can you put that question in context for me so I understand what you mean? Are descriptions of this sort (potentially) part of a formal system having Ches...