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  • What is knowledge?
    People can be informed (knowledgeable) or mistaken about either. — Andrew M

    I have been plugging the truth/knowledge is information message on this forum for quite some time. To no avail. People love complicated explanations. Simple ones are too boring.
  • Soft Hedonism
    Also please explain why anyone would smoke if we are purely motivated by pleasure and pain. — khaled

    Do you know how addiction works. Suggest you look into that.

    The fear of death is the only thing that is keeping us alive.
  • Absolute truth
    here is positive and negative energy, so a system that exists can have zero energy as a whole, while parts of the system have positive energy and other parts have negative energy. — leo

    Exactly. That is how something can emerge from nothing. The penny has dropped.
  • Why aliens will never learn to speak our language
    ↪mcdoodle
    How do telephone conversations work for you?
  • Does the world structure language or does language structure the world?
    ↪Galuchat
    As with music language is influenced by and influences the world. It's structure is mathematical.
  • Explaining multiple realizability and its challenges
    ↪mcdoodle
    Something does not have to be aware (think) to exist ( for us).
  • Why aliens will never learn to speak our language
    ↪Qmeri
    If we can imagine an alien it would by definition not be alien.
  • What time is not
    ↪Bartricks
    Time is what allows you to reflect on the past and plan for the future.
  • Why do most philosophers never agree with each other?
    ↪Yahya Al Haj Eid
    Your subconscious is the undercurrent of emotions you generally are not aware of.
  • Why do most philosophers never agree with each other?
    ↪Yahya Al Haj Eid
    Philosophy operates in an imaginary world at the boundaries of science.
  • Why aliens will never learn to speak our language
    ↪Qmeri
    An interesting podcast you should listen to is a scientist describing how the mind makes sense of reality. It's called the hallucinary mind.
  • Miracles as evidence for the divine/God
    ↪god must be atheist
    Yes the human mind needs distractions. Without, you either become religious or crazy. Perhaps there is not much difference between the two.
  • What is knowledge?
    Still wrong. — creativesoul

    Clever response. You got me there.
  • What is truth?
    What do you find useful in a falsehood known to be false? — ovdtogt

    ↪Devans99


    Give me 1 example.
  • What is knowledge?
    Language is not just communication through sounds and gestures. — creativesoul

    language is the vocalization of information. Chimps do it. Birds do it. Many animals do it.
  • A Perfect World?
    Falling from a height to death is a somewhat painful and somewhat prolonged experience I'm afraid. See here for the gruesome details:[/quote]

    How long do you think you might suffer after you jump off a skyscraper?

    ↪Devans99
  • What is truth?
    Read my last post. — creativesoul

    intellectually dishonest.
  • What is knowledge?
    Online format. — creativesoul

    You are going all cryptic on me.
  • Simplicity-Complexity
    What are you arguing, that scientists tend to believe bad metaphysics? — Metaphysician Undercover

    That clever scientists disagree with dumb people like you.
  • Simplicity-Complexity
    Do you understand that? — Metaphysician Undercover

    that very few scientists believe organic life did not evolve on our planet from inorganic chemicals.
  • Donald Trump (All General Trump Conversations Here)
    It’s mass hysteria that plays into the hands of totalitarianism, — Brett

    Yes mass hysteria. Let's seek appeasement with Donald Trump. The fascist leader of the fascist Republican party.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeasement

    Appeasement in an international context is a diplomatic policy of making political or material concessions to an aggressive power in order to avoid conflict.[1] The term is most often applied to the foreign policy of the British governments of Prime Ministers Ramsay MacDonald, Stanley Baldwin and Neville Chamberlain towards Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy[2] between 1935 and 1939.
  • Free Labour: A Hypothetical
    ↪Brett
    Well there you go. Just 1 sentence would have sufficed then.
  • A Perfect World?
    I think the fear of the pain of death is greater than the fear of death itself. — Devans99

    Nope. That is not what troubles people. Fear of death makes people put up with the pain.
    You can jump off a very high building you wont feel a thing.
  • Simplicity-Complexity
    ↪Metaphysician Undercover

    Yes that are you constantly contradicting yourself.

    Very few scientists believe organic life did not evolve on our planet from inorganic chemicals.
  • A Perfect World?
    If the levels of pain relief chemicals in our bodies were raised as the risk of our death increases, painful deaths could be avoided and the fear of death alleviated. — Devans99

    Every day the risk of you dying increases. Is this painful?
  • Simplicity-Complexity
    Right, it's speculation, not science. — Metaphysician Undercover

    No I don't think science can advance without speculation, — Metaphysician Undercover
  • Free Labour: A Hypothetical
    ↪Brett


    Play without work very soon stops being playful.
  • What is knowledge?
    No sounds or gestures in this format, but there is definitely language. — creativesoul

    What format?
  • What is truth?
    Usefulness can be the property of a falsehood known to be false. — creativesoul

    Again I ask you. You said it. Now defend it and stop being intellectually dishonest.
    What do you find useful in a falsehood known to be false?
  • What is truth?
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  • What can logic do without information?
    I think logic requires some sort of substance to use it upon. — chromechris

    Logic without science is religion. — ovdtogt

    Haha yes, logic becomes whatever tf' you want it to be. — chromechris
  • What can logic do without information?
    ↪chromechris


    Logic without science is religion.
  • Pragmatic Idealism
    Nietzsche, the expert on nihilism — Enrique

    I would consider myself also to be an expert on nihilism and I am financially quite comfortable.
    I am however looking to ..
    give my fingers, toes and nipples a goal — Enrique

    Not so much my nipples.
    But
    ↪Metaphysician Undercover

    would know what to do with them. He has got man breasts.
  • What is truth?
    This is self-contradictory and/or incoherent.

    Let A = usefulness
    Let B = truth
    Let C = information
    Let D = a statement
    — creativesoul

    And this is a totally useless statement.
  • What is truth?
    And falsehood known to be false... so usefulness — creativesoul

    And what do you find so useful in falsehoods?
  • What is knowledge?
    — Athena
    ↪creativesoul


    That is what language is: Communication through sound and gestures.
    Watch this fascinating clip by David Attenborough

    Amazing footage of how different types of monkey have distinct calls to warn their troop members of an invading big cat predator. Amusing footage of how David Attenborough reveals their hidden behaviours with a special stuffed toy. From BBC's Life of Mammals.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-bxPLFt1vI

    Crying babies are communicating — Athena

    Yes crying is a form of communication and may be considered a primitive language.
  • What is knowledge?
    Researchers say that animals, non-humans, do not have a 'true' language like humans. However they do communicate with each other through sounds and gestures. — Voxy

    That is what language is. Communication.

    The problem I encounter on this forum is the lack of basic knowledge concerning, history, biology and physics and chemistry.
  • Simplicity-Complexity
    Right, it's speculation, not science. — Metaphysician Undercover

    Do you think science can advance without speculation?
  • Absolute truth
    ↪Metaphysician Undercover


    Nothing has zero energy. So are we talking about nothing?
  • Philosophy and the Twin Paradox
    non-zero speed — Mike Fontenot

    I have googled non-zero speed but only find non-zero velocity and that means something quite different.
    Non speed means you are standing still. You are not in motion.
    perpetually inertial — Mike Fontenot

    Nor can I find anything on perpetual inertia.
    Inertia a property of matter by which it continues in its existing state of rest or uniform motion in a straight line, unless that state is changed by an external force.

    So in your hypothetical nothing is moving.
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