General Philosophy

This to introduce a discussion on the proposition that Philosophy is still valuable in this day and age, dominated as it is by scientific considerations. Some have argued that Philosophy has become redundant in modern times and that Science can somehow replace all its functions. I argue that this is not the case, but that the issues have moved on for some and we would be well served to stop re-enacting old battles and put our efforts into new matters. By way of example here is a sequence of instances culminating in a modern day issue. The ancient Greeks were so distressed about irrational numbers that they tried to forcibly suppress knowledge of…

***** Section 1 - Cover Page ***** Version: 1.2 (Canadian version) Subject: Grey Philosophy, Education, Psychology for Mental Health Type of Document: Layman Guide Summary: The basics of self-aware, reality orientation, balance, belief(s), and unification. For: Everyone Author / Contributor: Tyler A. Snider (Deaf Person) Author / Contributor Date: 2021-December-13 English Language Editor: N/A English Language Editor Date: N/A ***** Section 2 - Table of Contents ***** Topics: Cover Page Table of Contents Introduction Reality Orientation Reality Principles “Constants” of Reality Conceptual Understanding: Balance System Belie…

Since we seem unable to define torture, perhaps we should start at a more fundamental level. Let's start by imagining we're all fundamentally good people (even the sociapath) and it's our life experience (psychology) that steers us away from being good; is that our fault? Does it deserve punishment? All you can do to another is deprive them of something but in doing so, you damage yourself; to condemn other's only condemns our soul. I'm reminded of The pearl.

Lets assume the universe is infinite (which may or may not be true), would this mean that we would be created again, in the exact same circumstances as we were in this life? If something is infinite, then surely the exact same make up of something will be created again, whether that be in 10 years or 10 trillion years? It could be here on this earth or it could be on another planet in another universe. I do very much believe that we are just our brains and there is no soul, as such. However, I think we will experience consciousness again but a difference consciousness with no connection or memory of previous ones. I suspect we would also not feel any time …

It’s a pretty normal question however it may have far reaching connotations. As far back as I can remember I have always been told that the white part of an egg is called “the white” and the yellow part is “the yolk”. Now of course this is not accurate as the white is called “the Albumen” and recently I began questioning why we only use the correct name for half the egg 🤔. Of course whilst the initial question is a little flippant in its wording it is an interesting concept that we are for some reason we are only choosing to educate our children when it is convenient. The only possible conclusions I can draw are as follows …

Have you ever noticed that when 2 children disagree more often than not the parents will also agree with their child and against the other child despite normally not being involved in the dispute. Whilst we all like to think of ourselves as fair and just, our minds somehow have a way of overriding our rational thought process. As a parent we inherit a maternal/paternal instinct that will help us nurture and develop our relationship with our child however on the flip side of that point we also develop a natural bias towards our offspring. As society evolves it seems our biases are also evolving, if you compare the parenting techniques of…

Hello. I have come to heavily doubt my Efilist and promortalist stance. Is anybody here an ex-efilist, an ex-animal-antinatalist or ex-promortalist? How did you get into it, how did you leave? This is a call for help, I feel trapped by this philosophy. I need to know if there are others like me. EDIT: I am mainly looking for people who have held these stances and have now changed. But I suppose I might as well let others join in. Efil is life spelled backwards. It represents a stance of "anti-life". Efilists are universal antinatalists ,which means they want to sterilise the planet, and are generally promortalists. Promortalists attaches…

1. Fundamentals Constituting The Balance System Relation / Relationship (relation) a. the way in which two or more concepts, objects, or people are connected; a thing's effect on or relevance to another. - Googled Oxford Languages (relationship) b. the way in which two or more concepts, objects, or people are connected, or the state of being connected. - Googled Oxford Languages Balance a condition in which different elements are equal or in the correct proportions. - Googled Oxford Languages Equilibrium a state in which opposing forces or influences are balanced. - Googled Oxford Languages System a set of things workin…

From t0 Space expands 3D by Time? Must be a spherical shaped entity. Than the system must be finite at least from the point of spacetime (from t0 to t-now) , energy and matter. Or? But does space itself can be bent? How? Does spacetime has any physical properties can be curved? Isn’t energy bends under the influence of gravity? Having a slightly curved extend, which is the local space of a physical entity in the moment of observation within the volume of the Universe. I agree that curved physical entities (waves…everything) can exist within any point of space. How the elements of a 0 set can be bent?

If I give every point of space, every electron and atom a natural number(by the time of existence) I got a huge number, inexpressible, but still finite. Now. For every physical entity, even for the points of space, time will pass with every upcoming moment in the future, which again an add to the set of natural numbers I will not be able to count but countable. I know that with every moment of time there is more information in the system. But how could it be infinite, if the Future numbers and the possibility to account them, not yet happened? Where are the physical signs of infinity? Why are we counting infinite? Why don’t we …

Hello everybody, I'm new here. My name is Santiago. I pass the last four years exclusively working in my book of philosophy. I did this due to our global situation as species. I think, it was the best I could do with my time for trying to avoid our extinction. My book is basis on the classic of religion and philosophy. In fact is working out a linkage between the Republic and the Revelation, for me those are almost the same, despite their styles are completely different. My intention was to try to find a social model than permits us to keep existing and to reach a better level of civilization. The book touches all things related to civilization, from energy production and…

Statement 1 (S1): Birds don't fly Statement 2 (S2): Frank Sinatra is not a poached egg Both these statements share one thing in common: they are both screamingly obvious; the difference being that S1 is obviously false (it is true that some birds don't fly, of course, but "[all] birds don't fly" is false) while S2 is obviously true. Now, if the village idiot, or the village madman for that matter, were to tell you either of the statements above, you might smile politely, make some excuse about a dental appointment, and disappear fast. On the other hand, however, were S1 or S2 advanced by the village genius, one might stop to wonder "Why is an intellige…

Philosophy gave birth to science, so... I'm going to stop there, because I want this thread to evolve naturally. Discuss...

Existence is...the Absolute Singularity. I plan on writing about my entire thought process to arrive at my assertion above. What follows is the start of my journey. This is the story of why I decided to examine the nature of reality and our human understanding of it. The world around me seems too chaotic and crazy right now, overwhelmed with fear and anger that exacerbates nihilism. Nihilism helps no one. So, due to not sleeping and having an abundance of mental energy, I began processing all the ins and outs, the quandaries, surrounding existence. These quandaries always end in a paradox, logical fallacies, or trippy infinite loops. I thought to myself, is und…

Logic question: Which is more logical... A) something coming from nothing B) something coming from something A or B? and why?

Rome split from Ancient Greece and became a greater nation. America split from England and became a greater nation. What we now call Physics and Chemistry used to be called Natural Philosophy. So Where, When, How and Why did Science split from Philosophy and do we think they are now the greater discipline ?

The thread was inspired by mention of the Scientific Method (SM) in another thread, where detailed discussion of the method would be off topic. Additionally it was inspired by the observation that the SM is all too often introduced as representing all of Science. Hence the title question here. Is the Scientific Method all there is to Science ? As a discussion starter example is the synthesis of this compound nothing to do with Science as it is clearly not part of the SM as outlined above. Or is it some other pat of Science?

English isn't my first language; I don't understand the difference between 'differential' and 'different' as adjectives. Why do these books use 'differential' as an adjective? Why not just write 'different'? 1. Stephen Darwall, Morality, Authority, and Law: Essays in Second-Personal Ethics I (2013), p 167. 2. Jeffrie G. Murphy, Philosophy Of Law: An Introduction To Jurisprudence (2018), Anyone know the page number? 3. The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Law (2012), p 579. 4. Norman K. Denzin, Sociology of Law (2020) Anyone know the page number?

There's been a series of lawsuits recently posing the question of whether or not an A.I. system can be considered as a de facto inventor. Dr. Peter Thaler has created an A.I. system called DABUS ( “Device for the Autonomous Bootstrapping of Unified Sentience”.) The artificially intelligent inventor listed here, DABUS, was created by Dr. Stephen Thaler, who describes it as a “creativity engine” that’s capable of generating novel ideas (and inventions) based on communications between the trillions of computational neurons that it’s been outfitted with. Despite being an impressive piece of machinery, last year, the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) ruled that…

Is our sense of who or what we are more based on our internal processes or is it more function of how the outside worldviews us? Or is it some indefinable feedback mechanism where these two processes feed off and on each other ? In short ,perhaps are we who we think we are or who others think we are?

Most people have difficulty defining consciousness as have most of the big thinkers from 1000 BCE! For me it is fairly easy because I have a spiritual basis in my life. For those that haven't a spiritual basis, consciousness is almost impossible to understand or explain as Daniel Dennett discovered. Consciousness is the limited time we have to experience and communicate with the universal consciousness commonly known as God but more accurately described as the Hebrew Yhwh , the elohim (several or many gods) the Holy Spirit ,Nirvana , Param Brahma ,Vishnu etc As a side note it was the elohim (a Hebrew plural) that created the heavens and the earth in Genesis 1.…

USA IN THE BIBLE PROPHECY This is my worldview for the things. 1 "And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon." Rev.13:11 And if the waters are the nations(see Rev.17:15) coming out of the earth logically it is far away from the world. And if the Lamb is a symbol of Jesus, the dragon is a symbol of the enemy of Jesus Christ. And if these beasts symbolize politic-ideological powers in the world, which is this country that arrives in the world history scene as a nation puritan believers. And which is this country that creates more and more …

So, you have a completely solid, impenetrable box with nothing in it. Not a single atom. Not a quark. Not a string. If I move that box a meter, does the nothing move with it? Logically, yes, as there is nothing in and it is impossible for anything to get inside, but what about any-nothing? Physically, something must have mass to interact with other particles so the nothing just sits there and is replaced by more nothing when I move the box. I'm confused, please help. P.S: This is coming from an ameteur physicist who overthinks stuff a lot, so tell me if this is a dumb question.

"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.",which is from Oscar Wilde's "Lady Windermere's Fan" A commonplace observation that over the aeons humans have looked up at the stars with what we assume to be a similar feeling of wonder that we feel now. But my question is whether we would have found another object to evince the same feelings in us had those stars not been there for us to have gazed up at. Is there a feeling looking for an outlet that used those stars or would we have just found some other things to observe that would have given rise to similar but not identical feelings of wonderment? What might those objects hav…