Comment by TKoL on On the simultaneity of cause and effect?
"If you flick on a light switch with your finger, the room floods with light. There is no simultaneous two-way effect there." - sure there is, your hand is affected by the energy and momentum of the...
View ArticleComment by TKoL on What kind of free will does Harry Potter have while...
"If you want to assume free will then you have to abandon the idea of a pre-determined future. " What about compatibilism?
View ArticleComment by TKoL on Why do scientific laws persist?
@JackAidley I don't know what you mean by the difference between "constructed" and "natural". I intuitively feel like you're probably interpreting something I said in my answer in a way that I didn't...
View ArticleComment by TKoL on The logical validity of systems of intensional definitions
Just because a dictionary can't sufficiently define ALL words doesn't mean a dictionary isn't useful for defining ANY word.
View ArticleAnswer by TKoL for What kind of free will does Harry Potter have while...
Some conceptions of free will, compatibilist ones mainly (though perhaps not all compatibilist ones) see human minds as something like decision making machines. If the machine of your decision making...
View ArticleComment by TKoL on What's the difference between saying everything is made...
"testable in principle" how would one test that?
View ArticleComment by TKoL on Why are most philosophers moral realists?
@Marriott it seems to me there's some disconnect of intuition between most (non-theistic) moral realists and moral non realists. I would argue that most moral realists and non realists agree on almost...
View ArticleAnswer by TKoL for Is the notion that queer identities and sexuality are...
It may be that while many aspects of gender are defined socially, gender identity itself may be closer to innate. And sexuality is related to gender but doesn't always cut along the same joint as...
View ArticleComment by TKoL on Why are philosophers so unrespected and have so little...
"The reliable and practical parts of philosophy has split off into science and maths" - this is a really good point, "natural philosophy" was what they called science before science, so it's not...
View ArticleAnswer by TKoL for Why should I not believe there are true contradictions?
This got me thinking: How does one really justify the law of non-contradiction without just appealing to intuition?If you accept logic, but specifically deny the law of non contradiction, the problem...
View ArticleComment by TKoL on What are the meanings of 'all' and 'only' in the paradox...
I'm not seeing what's confusing about it. "All" and "only" have just their normal meanings. He shaved all those who don't shave themselves means that every single member of the set of people who don't...
View ArticleComment by TKoL on Is consciousness causally superfluous?
It would be extremely bizarre to have humans writing stack overflow questions about consciousness if consciousness wasn't casual in some way
View ArticleComment by TKoL on Does any interaction necessarily imply emergence in...
physics.stackexchange.com/questions/81618/… top comment says "Yes, it is possible to model chemical reactions with QM."
View ArticleAnswer by TKoL for Does any interaction necessarily imply emergence in...
Another way of wording this question is, are there interactions which DON'T produce emergent behaviour? To which I would say, probably not, with the possible exception of very very weak interactions -...
View ArticleComment by TKoL on Does any interaction necessarily imply emergence in...
Who says weak emergence is uninteresting? Chat gpt and alpha go are both extremely interesting.
View ArticleComment by TKoL on Does the teleological approach to philosophy of history...
"if you accept that the History of humanity has a goal, then it is straight forward to figure out what this goal is" - so what would it be in that case?
View ArticleComment by TKoL on If some one believes that nothing really matters but he...
If nothing really matters, then why not seek something you want? I don't see a conflict between those things. Nothing really matters, I want love, I seek love.
View ArticleComment by TKoL on Is there a general theory of intelligence and design that...
This is a fantastic answer and came to my mind as well on reading this question. I learned about assembly theory only relatively recently, it's very interesting and very pertinent to this question.
View ArticleComment by TKoL on Does Intelligent Design fulfill the necessary criteria to...
This was a really illuminating comment to read.
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