I was kidding with Agent Smith, and he knows what I was talking about . . . . and it wasn't you. No offense intended. :smile:which materialists are cold-hearted and don’t believe qualia like love are important. Can you name one specific thinker and some of his/her writing? — GLEN willows
different perspectives. — GLEN willows
the Antivax movement is weak evidence that there's something wrong with science. — Agent Smith
That being the case string theory is just a pretty face, lacking ... absit iniuria ... any substance. — Agent Smith
Better how? — GLEN willows
How many roads must a man walk down
Before you call him a man? — Bob Dylan (Blowin' in the Wind)
Oh, I didn't take it as a joke. I would if e.g. you said "if you don't understand something, it could be because you are stupid!" :grin:it’s a somewhat humorous expression, with some truth to it. It’s not supposed to be a philosophical theory. But when I studied post-modernism, it came in handy. — GLEN willows
The non-materialist's impossible burden is to explain ... the difference betwixt the immaterial and nothing. Mayhaps that is what non-materialism is all about - a study of nothing! — Agent Smith
1. Realism: Science shows you reality as it is. Mass actually does warp space-time.
2. Anti-realism: Science doesn't do what realism says it does — Agent Smith
What's the difference between a materialist and a monist then? — bert1
For better or worse, I'm in the dark as to the nature of the poison Rouse seems to refer to. Something to do with semantics or truth or maybe something else eniterly? Whatever it is, my response is that Rouse did have a notion of meaning, truth, and other linguistic elements as he penned his thoughts on the flaws in language, but isn't that a paradox? You're using language in particular mode (combination of semantics, truth, syntax) to make the claim that such usage is not good enough. Doesn't that make the criticism pointless. Rouse and his ilk are drinking from the very well they say is poisoned. :chin: — Agent Smith
Yes. Krauss had to admit that "something" (space, time, matter, energy, laws) must exist (presumably eternally) prior to the ex nihilo emergence of our physical world. I differ with him only in that I think it's necessary to add Math & Mind to that list of pre-existing factors, in order to explain the emergence of logical thinking creatures from an otherwise mindless process. Potential Mind (LOGOS) is the presumptive cause of Actual minds emanating from a substrate of Matter & Energy. :nerd:What about the fact that when Lawrence Krauss' book A Universe from Nothing came out philosophers wasted no time in distancing themselves from Krauss, saying the nothing of physics is not the nothing of philosophy i.e. Krauss failed to answer the philosophical question why is there something rather than nothing? — Agent Smith
How is this social milieu different/less biased than science? And isn't what's important the soundness of the IDEAS? — GLEN willows
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