General Philosophy

The classical question of whether it makes a sound or not is probably over-talked and therefore seems unworthy of further discussion, but just for fun lets all improvise and come up with some new perspectives. I'll summarise a couple of "answers" I thought of: Scientific ( Objectivity ) -- The world around us can exsist without the need of a subject, therefore events, such as a tree falling can occur withought our knowledge. According to phsyical laws a falling tree will impact the ground so that a vibration is created, which travels through the air as a sound wave, therefore it DOES makes a sound. Spiritual/Philosophical ( Subjective ) -- Therory 1. A world can…

Answering the question "Can nothing exist?": "nohing is" and "everything is not" against "everything is" and "nothing is not". the second statement is a paradox, the firs isnt. to me, this would imply, that the original question isnt correct, that its opposite IS the question: "can nothing not exist"

It's so peculiar that there has always been a lot of conflict between religion and science. Why do you guys think that is?

Many years ago, I got myself in way over my head by taking an upper level philosophy course called "Philosophy of Science". I really enjoyed the course, but feel that I missed out by not taking the class later in my college career. We focused on paradigm shifts within the field of science. For those of you not familiar with a paradigm shift, think the shift in the idea of the sun revolving around the earth to what we know understand. At one point and time, it was absurd to believe the things which we now understand. Herein lies my question; how can we, as scientists and philosophers, make sure that we do not fall victim to the same traps that others before us have? Wh…

The idea of consiousness is, itself, the very essence of what philosophy is about. A child knows when some one is consious or unconsious, but consiousness itself cannot be measured nor traced due to its philosophical nature. As such, we are unable to define consiousness in concrete terms. This leaves the realm of consiouness solely to be defined by the ideas of philosophers. The first, and very basic, question asked by anyone who is sufficiently self aware is "Why am I here?". This one question is a question that has spanned the entire evolution of man since the moment he was aware of himself. Just as man has evolved, so too has his reasoning and explaination of this …

So of you believe in the univerese having no ending and that anything can happen has happen and will happen, is resurection posible. Tbh i dont believe in it just curios as to what others believe. (Also i read it on sandersons book legion:skin deep awesome book btw)

How do I know this is not a dream When in dream, we become part of dream and feel that everything that is happening ( in dream ) is true until dream is broken and we wake up ... So how do I know at this moment this is not a dream rather long dream...in other world ....How do I know this is not a virtual world .. Please keep jokes apart.. I already washed the face and pinched my hands multiple time :)

why we don't understand something?

as we approach the BB mathematics appears to become unreliable at predicting. I have perceived this as suggesting math somehow breaks down at those scales. I could see it as not a failure, but looking backwards toward math's assembly at the outstart of transitional expression of : from logic to logics to math, to maths, the universe being the amplification of the final four close developmental elements...with This as... the( eventual and continuing)output... I also could see that the classical world evolved out of the quantum one, as an example of the actively evolving universe at work, and both states exist as adjacent steps that express the universe in it's current ad…

Most the background of Rene Descarte and Issac Newton are from Charles Hutton's Mathematical And Philosophical Dictionary. Any insight is from my own use of logic. The first is Rene Descarte saw more than he ever got to tell of or others told of. But when they saw he was using the Cartesian Geometry, They do tell to at least give it a look at where it is headed. Certain things he is credited with saying one looking things we won't define for couple of Centuries. Laces for Rene Descarte. Patterns be our choice for a words. Issac Newton spend his early years schooling himself once he understood reading and writing. With his father dead he took care of the busin…

This is mostly intended as fun. I've been thinking that sometimes, depending on the action, the referent can be an idea. Unfortunately, this becomes complicated when actions are defined by subjective goals. What is the widely held viewpoint on sense & reference for mental predicates such as "believe in...", "love...", "am intrigued by..."? Suppose there is a red house (sense 1), and it might be a haunted house (sense 2). I kicked the red house. Kicking is a physical act, so it's the actual house. If it's haunted, then I kicked the haunted house. I believe in the red house. I think this referent is an idea. Whether this implies belief i…

What if the earth stops moving? Nothing would happen. may be the entire universe would be moving around another "thing". We see the value/length of a second as a day have 86,400 of same in it. but what will happen on a scenario when a change of speed of the earth rotation process. Nothing would happen but the measurements of time also should change accordingly. TIME... It may not just moving but we used to think it is because of time. Some times there might no such thing as gravity! The thought of "Gravity" occurs when a particle moves with time towards something, the relativity to other particles and other particles how sees it. Everything depends on time. light …

Suppose I kill your father, does my death mean justice has been done? But what if my death was merely an accident? Does that mean justice has been done or is something further needed?

Do you believe that imagination encircles everything, and thus, anything that someone says, can be easily defeated with a bit of imagination? I guess to make it a bit clearer for you: anything you say has imagination surrounding it; this is also represented by the fact that the rest of the body which enforces your statements, is an accomplice of the statement, as well as other things like dictionaries or references; including things like sexual desires, emotions; beyond the words you say is always yourself and you may be judged more accurately; I could mention that you were educated or socially conditioned--I'm not saying this is a bad thing but it's an example of a judge…

One one hand, it's encouraging to be around people who share your goals, who have a special insight into what motivates you. If you want to be successful, hanging around with successful people seems rational. On the other hand, surrounding yourself with like-minded people can lead to compound mentality (cults blindly following a leader due to limited outside interaction). It seems irrational not to have diverse input from lots of different personalities, and different experience and knowledge levels. It seems like this could be a definition problem. "Like-minded" can mean both those who share a specific interest, as well as those who are in general of the same di…

I have just watched an intriguing film called “Afflicted” in which a human was turned into a vampire. The premise of the film is: essentially, you can’t die and must feed every 4/5 days, on humans (you choose) or become an indiscriminate killer who must feed every day. Let us presume that evil doesn’t exist (which it doesn’t) and we all know of the existence of sociopaths, who are known to be war time heroes or just ordinary members of society, or psychopaths (who can’t help their behaviour). We also, should, know that bullies aren’t born but made; and that humans are essentially the same; as are dogs or birds or elephants etc. and given the same conditions we, as hum…

In accepting knowledge at face value, a person can never deny that knowledge, it is subliminal then that anything deemed other than the knowledge accepted, and any other possible paradox will be automatic denied.

I have this fear in my mind that Im doing something wrong or im not doing the right things. Is it okay for me to do what I want and travel the world and go on adventures with my friends? I want to pursue my passions but I have this fear that these passions are just spoiled American things. I could just as easily be sitting under a tree meditating in Tibet my whole life. Why does my mind tell me to go fishing with my friends, travel and see places, go skateboarding and do all these fun leisurely things. Should I be pursuing all these hobbies and passions? I just question everything so much. Is there any famous books on what to do in life from philosophers? …

Hello everyone. It seems to me that too many established scientists nowadays like to bring up anthropic principle way too often. It's like this principle is a new deus ex machina - if you don't know how to explain something just bring up anthropic principle. Oh, yeah, and it's also infallable by the definition. Can you help me understand why it's so popular? Thanks!

Why is there laws in this universe? This really makes no sense at all. We all know that laws exsist in our universe and in order to make fantasy reality we have to follow these laws. These are the laws of physics, the laws of gravity, the laws of reality, the laws of nature. In nature you see there is a bunch of forces and each one is keeping the other one in check. If there is too many rabbits there will be wolves and the wolf population will grow but if less prey animals start dying out so will the wolf population. Now why is this? We all understand the laws are here but why is there laws to begin with? Why cant we freely do as we wish? Why are we so restricted? Its lik…

No, this topic is not about the book by Douglas Adams. I would like your opinions on whether it should be important that we search for answers to all of our questions about life, the universe, and everything else. Is it worth all of the money it costs to do this? Should this research be costing us great amounts of money? Is it worth finding the answers that just makes us ask more questions? When should this cycle end of creating and answering questions? What would be the benefits of exploring the universe? --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------…

Should we be more considerate of the Earth, when conducting science, because of its significance to us and our significance in comparison, plus the fact our resources are limited? And is the technological dominance over the world, including words and other less explicit types of technology, likely to compromise the long-term stability of planet Earth? What I’m trying to ask, which is most purely put in the prior paragraph, is if humans and Earth are conjoined in some, maybe complex way (such as through genetics), as well as dependant on for wants and, for a long time, needs, and if we are to conduct science, should there be laws that prohibit technology that damages v…

I have a theory or rather a suggestion or idea. (before i get pounded again...) And to my mind it's elegant. Where are our souls? Take Bruce Lipton's "Self receptors" / "Antennas" on the membranes of our cells."The cell receives its identity from its surroundings" "The self receptors distinguish one identity from another identity" "No two humans share the same Identity" "If the cell is here or not makes no difference to my identity, because my identity, my signal is still here" Our identities / we are not in the body but in its / our surroundings. Each persons cells receive a unique bandwidth. Now take a frequency spectrum.A frequency spectrum is basically build…

As we progress through the digital age, questions will arise about whether there is a limit to our capabilities of advancement. Will we simply continue to go beyond the boundaries that we think is the limit or is there a "transcendent" state we will soon be in, where we are no longer physical, but data entities and we no longer are consistent as biological organisms, but as pieces of data that live in a network? I put this in philosophy because this may bring some philosophical questions.

what possibilities do we have to stop the wars in earth?? answer 100% ( I can repeat it in a words ) ONE HUNDRED PERCENTS !!!! we easily can reverse things - understand that ours enemy is not us, but danger from nature danger from space powers and etc.. in a laws of nature we are here not to destroy ourselves, but continue survive and give a chance for our kids to live on this planet and to give a chance for us to hope to be the happy grandfather's.. we have most wonderful space ship ( earth ) with ours own star and infinite possibilities about what we can ever dream ! we can put a guards of resource balance, we can can put a guards of overpopulation to gently slow down t…