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To have lived a life where no one notices you are missing is a reflection on a life that was lived in loneliness The fact of the death is not in itself sad but that the death revealed a person whom no one cared about enough to notice There is a difference between being lonely and being alone howeve...

I am a nobody and it suits me fine. I shall die alone but since I am a loner and also not afraid of death it does not bother me at all. Now no one is going to remember me but given how I anticipate spending the rest of eternity in pain free non consciousness it does not truly matter. I had zero prob...

uwot wrote:
The thing that the hypothesis was meant to account for was the observed red shift of distant galaxies first noted by Vesto Slipher

I thought that that was Fritz Zwicky so did Slipher discover red shift before he did [ I have never actually heard of him before ]

Harbal wrote:
I prefer not to believe in it as I am not very keen on the idea of me being a figment of your imagination

Yes but you could be the one who really exists and he could be the figment of your imagination instead

No I do not believe in solipsism because belief is an article of faith which requires zero evidence
And nor do I think that it is true because the existence of others clearly demonstrates its falsity

I like the sound of you Terrapin Station for you seem to be a freethinker not afraid to be iconoclastic when you feel the need to. You also appear to be very knowledgeable and know what you are talking about and I therefore hope that your stay here will be long and productive. So welcome to the forum

Terrapin Station wrote:
What do you take to be the neuroscientific demonstration that free will doesn t obtain

Decisions determined by the brain milliseconds before one is consciously aware of them

creativesoul wrote:
I find no argument to warrant logic prior to language

While logic can be best demonstrated through written or spoken language it is entirely
possible that logical thought existed before the means to communicate it to others did

Free will is an illusion and has been demonstrated to be by neuroscience
That might explain why you have never met anyone who agrees with you

What matters to us given the aim is what all language has in common and whether those common denominators are capable of existing and / or emerging without ( prior to ) language Before language there has to be thought or logic else it is either non existent or meaningless. The symbols of language [...

Language is existentially contingent upon shared meaning. Without getting into all the pitfalls of a discussion regarding meaning as the term is used after language creation / acquisition has begun in earnest ( particularly after meta cognition ) we find our selves talking about symbolism. Thus the...

I see no reason to think / believe that we cannot use language ( amongst other things ) in order to figure out what language itself is existentially contingent upon. If setting that much out does not count as getting beneath language then nothing wiII Even in its most primitive form [ body language...

surreptitious57 wrote:
Language is a vocalised or textualised version of thought and so without it no
one would really know what anyone else was thinking on any significant IeveI

Actually there is a less sophisticated version which is of course body language

I still think assumption and belief should have separate meanings. Assumption to me always meant something which you start with knowing it could very well be wrong. Belief is to me something which you accept as truth without proof and are unwilling to dispute or question But unfortunately assumptio...