Philosophy Now Forum

I get what you are saying but still I can't agree. Great. I'm not looking for agreement, only understanding. And I get your point too. 8) My aim here, as in many other threads, is to show how little of our experienced existence actually takes place in reality. We live most of our lives in our imagi...

How does 'now' not make sense, but a poor memory or the imagined future is somehow more sensible? Because "now" has no duration and thus in itself no context to make sense within. Nothing happens "now", because even the fastest of events take at least some time. When people talk...

As we live we remember what we like to call the past and imagine what we like to call the future. But the now is all we ever have. Yes. Of course. The trouble is that we don't really "have" the now. What we have is a construct based on memories and projections. That's how we understand th...

If the past doesn't actually exist... But the past do exist. It's all there, in the past. The same goes for the future. It's all there, in the future. As we move through life, steadily drifting downstream through time, the latter becomes the former, as our point of view shifts, but it's still all t...

You believe there is a creator who created mankind , all creatures and the whole universe , but you refuse the idea of a religion telling you what's right or wrong , good and evil, telling you the purpose of life and other things. If God wished us to know these things for certain, then God would le...

chaz wyman wrote:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aURJ9GRpmo4

Essential viewing. That Paul Ryan character is particularly infuriating to watch.

Whilst you search for your god, though, you make him/it/her/thing remote and of no importance to your life or anyone else's. That is not the case. The God I believe in is not remote, but ever present. You have only to understand nature and the structure of the world to find your god, but what do yo...

Such a petty God Could you choose pleasant words next time please because I can't accept hearing such words as a muslim . Thanks in advance . Sorry about that. But I was not really talking about God; I was talking about your distorted image of God, about your petty notions of heaven and hell, punis...

Religion: the school of easy answers. Well, as I said earlier in this thread: There is no way to know! There is no knowledge to be had! You don't have an answer to the question discussed here, the one that Kuznetzova got backwards to begin with: How come there are natural laws in the first place? Y...

You atheist will burn in eternal hell I swear of God. Do you really believe that? I'm a theist myself. I believe there is a Creator. But a God who would punish dissidents eternally is not worthy of any worship. Such a petty God would be no better than a common dictator. No, worse, because a human d...

The cosmological multiverse discussed in this thread is even more "multi", suggesting that every possible configuration of natural laws and constants are real in some alternate universe. Useful for explaining the seemingly teleological aspects of our universe, without resorting to teleolo...

The Multiverse bears no conviction about purpose in any sense. It is designed to answer particular questions about hypothetical situations in QM. There are severeal different notions of multiple universes, designed to answer different questions. The most popular is probably the many worlds interpre...

The phrase "the exception proves the rule" has nothing to do with actually proving anything. "The exception defines the rule" would be more accurate.

I suspect that this confusion has something to do with the expression "no rule without exception".

Hi, Metazoan, The Multiverse is a speculation based upon the assumption that we exist for no reason, while God is a speculation based upon the assumption that we exist for a reason. To me this is backwards. The multiverse is a consequence of reason and deduction, and God is, by most (loudest) people...

Is it possible to construct a robot that thereafter is absolutely autonomous? Could be, at least in theory. That is not to say that such a robot would have "free will" any more than we do, though. The actions of the robot would still depend upon its programming. If it did something other ...