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Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
I burned some energy thinking about the concept of that fire.

Good. You know, it’s not like I take pleasure from the fact that secularist philosophers are being roasted in the eternal underground torture chamber. But how else could God express his love for his own commandments and undeniable truth? Okay maybe I get a…[Read more]

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
Kant has had a few mentions recently. It was he who said “existence is not a predicate” when he spoke of logical and material possibilities. The concept of god is logical possible but that does not imply god exists.

And that’s why one day humanity will smarten up and burn his books…in a fire far more ferocious tha…[Read more]

jakelafort wrote:
So Davis how do you distinguish something real (exists whether we conceive of it or are unaware) from something that is not real?

Well you know, I read what a lot of commentators say. Theologists have spent centuries thinking about all of this and writing down down facts and powerful arguments based on our slightly…[Read more]

Re: Unseen,

So energy is a double concept. Energy AND matter only exist in our minds, TWO concepts, and it all depends on what centuries of appointed energy commentators have written on it (liberally borrowing better philosophers material)

Re:Reg:

I see where you are going with this but the concept of a concept is also a concept so you might as…[Read more]

Yes Simon, per thriving…it’s a good definition but it’s not the best one cause not all creatures follow this. In a significant number of creatures a large number (if not an entire gender) don’t reproduce and some insects make no particular effort to stay alive and in some creatures with few natural predators strength can be rather unimportant (i…[Read more]

Simon you keep using thrive in a way which is just extremely confusing because thrive is conceptual when it comes to humans and, as far as we know, that is until we can access or are told by other animals, it is not conceptual with other creatures. If we just stick to non-human mobile individual creatures…what do you mean by thrive?

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I suppose after the First billion years ui heaven i will have mastered all the worlds languages and mathematics and physics. I’ll likely spend the next billion years inventing new languages and logic annotation. In the third bout of a billion years I’d learn everything worth knowing and would be sick to death of meeting other alien species who…[Read more]

tom sarbeck wrote:
Ehhhh Davis. Energy is just a concept until a lightning bolt strikes you.

Ehhhhh. I can’t understand why you atheists want energy to be real? Would that somehow give you a reason not to strike down all the people you long to murder?

Ehhhh Tom. Energy is just a concept.

jakelafort wrote:
We don’t credit organisms or animals driven exclusively by instinct as sentient but are we certain that they are not self-aware? If so, how?

Hofstadter was one of the first mathematician/theory of mind/philosopher to posit feedback loops. In his book, only humans have strange loops (putting it extremely generally…where only b…[Read more]

Language comes naturally to us. The written word comes to us a lot sooner and more easily than advanced math. We learn it faster, retain it longer, make less mistakes with it and use it our whole lives. We can describe most of the universe as we know it through words, express ourselves through words…live every day with words. And yet…I’m not…[Read more]

tom sarbeck wrote:
Only by first studying math can he “know” that. He then “attaches” the limited math he knows to the limited universe he perceives. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

+1

You are both right. Evolution didn’t stop. Of course it didn’t. There is an enormous difference between how we can handle the heat, certain foods, skin color, endurance, blood type and much more. It has only been a near microscopic number of generations since man went sedentary and lived in large groups.  It’s true all species to have a potenti…[Read more]

It’s also more than just evolutionary pressure. We evolved to live in tiny groups of people roaming Savannah with mostly enough resources to get by, not too much violence and using ingenuity and speculation to adapt to slowly changing environments.

Having a detailed world view or a supernatural creation explanation is a consequence of this,…[Read more]

I was born on the dark side of the moon, I grew up in the land of Oz, spent some time in Alcatraz, then was reincarnated as Winston Churchill’s bull dog, then spent some time roaming the galaxy looking for people more intelligent than Earth-dolphins (never found it) and most recently I was reincarnated as a toothbrush. Being a to…[Read more]

Simon Paynton wrote:

Davis wrote:
they are.

Then it’s not surprising that the CI hasn’t caught on.

And so passes one more duck and so goes yet another dodge.

jakelafort wrote:
In essence those whites who thought themselves better than blacks (almost all of them) had a special creation bias.

And yet it’s totally reasonable for men to make more than women?

daughterofkarl wrote:
Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors, a Search for Who We Are

Hey. THanks for the recommendation. I have a pretty enormous reading list but I will put the book on it. Sometimes older books can explain general concepts and I find older books also add a lot more humanity and an intersting narrative. For example Desmond Morris’s…[Read more]