Here's an old 4 pp. thread which might interest you.Is anything impossible? — Andrew4Handel
Presumably one can be ruled out — alan1000
How about an elephant hanging over a cliff with its tail tied to a daisy? — alan1000
For example is an afterlife ruled out? — Andrew4Handel
Is creation ruled out? — Andrew4Handel
Are idealism or solipsism impossible? — Andrew4Handel
Is an amoral reality possible? — Andrew4Handel
Are there logical, theoretical or empirical limits. — Andrew4Handel
No evidence to suggest there will be an afterlife, and why would anybody desire one? — Garrett Travers
Solipsism is nonsense, you can tell because I'm typing to you. No shit. — Garrett Travers
Limitations are what allows for reality to even exist — Garrett Travers
There are actually lots of anecdotal accounts of near death experience. — Andrew4Handel
There obvious reasons why people would want an afterlife. I don't see why you would struggle to think of any. — Andrew4Handel
There are versions of reality that would allow for an afterlife for example other dimensions, idealism and solipsism, the notion of consciousness as separate from but interacting with the brain. — Andrew4Handel
I was interested in what facts would make something impossible not whether evidence exists for something. — Andrew4Handel
This might not be true. — Andrew4Handel
In the metaphysics of identity, the Ship of Theseus is a thought experiment that raises the question of whether an object that has had all of its components replaced remains fundamentally the same object. — Andrew4Handel
Reality could be forever fluctuating. For example you can have a pet dog, a drawing of your dog, a computer graphic of your dog and a photo of your dog and you still recognise the dog in different mediums. What is what we experience doesn't necessarily have to be consistent just present the same identity. — Andrew4Handel
heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible” — Andrew4Handel
Obviously human creativity and innovation has yet to hit a brick wall. — Andrew4Handel
Anecdotal reports are not evidence. — Garrett Travers
For me, more serious impossibilities would include:
Feeding 5 thousand people with a loaf and two fishes — universeness
A human virgin birth. — universeness
Every so-called miracle the theists say actually happened. — universeness
Can't imagine why one would desire such, other than as a means to escape this one. — Garrett Travers
It's impossible for an immovable object to exist in the presence of an irresistible force. — universeness
Yes, but it has to be generated in tandem with reality and the laws that govern it. — Garrett Travers
One idea of an imaginary possibility which is unlikely but not cannot be ruled out is that of time's arrow reversing. — Jack Cummins
But the existence of new entities like the internet and radios reveals that we don't know what is ruled out and what laws exactly exist. These things and others are called emergent properties which are not predicted by physics.
You may be treating the laws of physics like theological commandments rather than scientific formulae that await exceptions or modulations.
The failure of physics and the rest of science to account for consciousness our only access to reality is consciousness) is a big whole and the materialistic project. — Andrew4Handel
Is anything ruled out and why? — Andrew4Handel
For example
is an afterlife ruled out?
Is creation ruled out?
Are idealism or solipsism impossible?
Is an amoral reality possible?
Are there logical, theoretical or empirical limits? — Andrew4Handel
For example i
s an afterlife ruled out?
Is creation ruled out?
Are idealism or solipsism impossible?
Is an amoral reality possible?
Are there logical, theoretical or empirical limits. — Andrew4Handel
No evidence to suggest there will be an afterlife, and why would anybody desire one? — Garrett Travers
Idealism is supposed to be impossible, it provides a consitent aim to reach for asymptotically. Solipsism is nonsense, you can tell because I'm typing to you. No shit. — Garrett Travers
No, the human mind is a natural concept generating entity — Garrett Travers
Yes. — Garrett Travers
What if the loaves of bread and fish were all huge?
You just need a huge oven and very big fish. — Andrew4Handel
No evidence points at the contrary. So why rule it out? — Schootz1
And still there are idealists and solipsists. — Schootz1
No. Men or women without morals exist. — Schootz1
No. It depends to what the rules are applied. — Schootz1
If the proposition "nothing is ruled out" is true, then the proposition "nothing is ruled out" is an exception to this. "Nothing ruled out except the current proposition", perhaps. — _db
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