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As long as I am a moral person, I know my own self-interest in that it is tied with others self-interest. Interdependence is key to this, as not only my morality depends upon thereof, but everything in the universe is interdependent. Cause and effect are the key to this along with IAO: Isis, Apophis...

Viveka You wrote, in the previous post, "I completely agree with all of this except I don't plan on reading the book." If you agree with all this, you don't need to read the book. You already have an enlightened wisdom. More power to you! Aw. Thanks. :) I must ask you a question though: D...

I will not argue against that point, however I am not sure it is the only way. The 1 dimensional point maintains itself through an intradimensional self reflection, which results in the circle as a structural extension of the 1 point and simultaneously manifests as an extradimensional structure. Th...

Size as temporality only works with systems where force and energy are used in a way such as in a gas where the pressure increases inversely with volume, and such as a fluid where pressure increases inversely with volume. I think circuits can be thought of the same way with voltage and resistance. h...

The only way the zero-dimensional point at the center of a 1-sphere can remain 1-dimensional is if it is directed perpendicular to the plane of the circle. Try this with a sphere and it is only a radius. If there is 'intradimensionality' and 'extradimensionality' then the radius in the sphere would ...

Different ways of stating tautologies in newer and thinner or broader manners.

I would define free will as a condition that has a power-beyond-itself in that conditions in one timeline, a ball bouncing on the floor, will be a condition in another time-line where the ball doesn't or does bounce on the floor. The option itself in the alternative time-line is what defines free-wi...

There is a four-valued logic as pioneered by Hindus:
This
That
Both
Neither

1. But what is self evident and how does it relate to what we can know? It may be self evident that my foot hurts but how does that relate to the big picture which reveals the reality of my self in a universal context? The Self-Evident has been stated by me before. The existence of other minds, the...

Accept what is self-evident. Free-will, other-minds, the first-person authority we have over our mental happenings, the existence of a Intelligent Designer, and so on. None of these can be denied without some sort of self-denial of what is obvious and necessarily follows from our existence. There i...

I would define free will as a condition that has a power-beyond-itself in that conditions in one timeline, a ball bouncing on the floor, will be a condition in another time-line where the ball doesn't or does bounce on the floor. The option itself in the alternative time-line is what defines free-wi...

18th century German philosopher Immanuel Kant tried to answer four questions in his philosophy: 1. What can I know? 2. What do I have to do? 3. What can I hope for? 4. What is the human being? Philosophy for Plato is the love of wisdom. The philosopher is the friend of or lover of wisdom. What woul...

Who's to say that the infinity can't be traversed? Zeno's Paradoxes are examples of infinity traversed. They are infinities made up of a never-ending number of bits, for example time being made up of quantities of 'moments'. But if we think of infinity that way then it becomes self-contradictory. F...

There cannot be an infinite number of past events because differentiation of existence itself into events is conceptualisation, and only special beings can conceptualise. To claim that differentiated events transcendentally exist is tantamount to claiming that God created things from the elemental ...

To reiterate simply: a potential infinity can never become actually infinite, by successive addition of number/events. But an actually infinite set can always successively accommodate new events! See Cantor. These means past events can be infinite, without conflicting with successive addition. It's...