• Does this prove that God exists only because we decide that he does and we don't want to believe oth
    But the fact that any task can be performed consciously without us being made directly aware of us doing it, shows that task is a matter of free will and not of fate. — BBQueue

    Read that back a couple of times...

    But we also can't allow ourselves to believe that our decisions are predetermined, as we may ultimately allow that thought process to determine what decisions we make. — BBQueue

    Could not allowing oneself to believe in determinism alter one's decisions in any way? Or does it only work the other way around, as you stated.
  • Bullshit jobs
    If it were up to me, all that bullshit would disappear because I don't buy bullshit. — Hanover

    Hanover 2020
  • Coronavirus
    That order of "You are not allowed to go out for a walk for fresh air" is simply stupid. (Especially when your annoying neighbor with an ugly dog can go.) — ssu

    HEY! My little Quasimodo is NOT ugly!
  • The fundamental question of Metaphysics: Why something rather than nothing
    ↪Gregory

    Would you be willing to elaborate on that statement?

    Also I would like to clarify that I am not implying that we cannot necessarily define the concept of nothing but rather its contents.
  • The fundamental question of Metaphysics: Why something rather than nothing
    From the perspective of a computer programmer we could visualize the situation as pseudocode...

    # Our universe is one-dimensional, its contents quantified by "length." Units are centimeters.

    # Our universe is a set of objects, defined as follows...

    UNIVERSE = {A: 5, B: 3, C: 1}

    # The only way we can define what does not exist is in its relation to that which does exist. We can only visualize "nothing" as sort of a negative image of "something."

    NOTHING = {x in RANGE(∞, ∞) where x not in UNIVERSE}

    # NOTHING = {..., -2, -1, 0, 2, 4, 6, 7, 8, ...}

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    It's similar to the common inquiry into our cosmological origin: "But how can something come from nothing? We've never seen something come from nothing before, why should it happen now?"

    Such a question is based on the premise that we've actually ever seen "nothing" at all; which is by definition impossible.

    As soon as we can define nothing it ceases to become nothing.
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