Comment by TKoL on Is physicalism the simplest view of reality in terms of...
Brain in a vat explains every possible observation, which makes it a poor explanation for any specific observation. I think idealism and Physicalism are incorrectly placed at odds with each other,...
View ArticleAnswer by TKoL for Why are most philosophers non-theists and most...
I think the most effective answers in this thread, and the ones that should be marked as correct, are the ones that are very neutral about the truthfulness of religions/theism or non-theism/atheism -...
View ArticleComment by TKoL on Is physicalism the simplest worldview in terms of the...
Metaphysical Solipsism is like brain in a vat - no matter what you experience, metaphysical Solipsism could explain it, which makes it a poor explanation
View ArticleComment by TKoL on What is the difference between free-will and randomness...
@stoicfury hello from 10 years in the future. In programming, if you wanted to implement a coin that lands head 90% of the time, you would use randomness to do that - you would, perhaps, generate a...
View ArticleComment by TKoL on Can we know that something exists even if we can't explain...
"Know" feels like a strong term. What about something like "justified in believing"? Can we be justified believing in something that is not well defined?
View ArticleComment by TKoL on Logic and its beginnings and why it is
I think it's a good question, and I think the answer is unsatisfyingly No, logic isn't exactly logical. In other words, you can't prove logic logically. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%BCnchhausen_trilemma
View ArticleComment by TKoL on Is the failure of substitutivity in an intensional context...
You might reword Lois lanes belief as "Lois believes the person she recognises as superman can fly." Then it becomes apparent that you can't swap in Clark Kent for "the person she recognises as...
View ArticleComment by TKoL on Logic and its beginnings and why it is
we can postulate that aspects of our world follow a specific logic, then apply empiricism to evaluate this hypothesis. - love it
View ArticleComment by TKoL on Counterintuitive case of implication
Why should it be intuitive? In classical logic, a -> ~a is always false.
View ArticleAnswer by TKoL for Is physicalism the simplest worldview in terms of the...
I apologize for making 2 answers, but I think this one is potentially distinct enough to warrant a second answer. Also, fair warning, wacky speculation ahead.The natural interpretation of the question...
View ArticleAnswer by TKoL for How is this logic valid?
I don't really like the way that proof is presented, and I know this isn't what you asked, but if you want to prove ~(P -> Q) is mutually implicated with P ^ ~Q, we can just compare the truth...
View ArticleComment by TKoL on Is it possible for there to be an AI chatbot that is a...
Is the question, "Can you attach an immaterial soul to a chatGPT-like thing?" The question seems to only make sense if you're talking about immaterial souls, since you said physically equivalent
View ArticleAnswer by TKoL for Counterintuitive case of implication
The only time a -> ~a is when a is false. When a is false, a can imply anything. This is known as the principle of explosion.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_explosion(Latin: ex falso...
View ArticleComment by TKoL on How to prove the world is real, and you're not just...
Google Gemini says it's impossible to know/prove it - that's pretty agreeable. The most you could do is prove it's unlikely - but I prefer a different approach - to prove instead that believing the...
View ArticleComment by TKoL on Is the hard problem of consciousness based on a faulty...
What if certain physical processes correspond to conscious processes…and that’s that? - even most physicalists agree that there's something there we'd like to understand about how physical interactions...
View ArticleComment by TKoL on Simple question really: If pi is an irrational number,...
Pi can be irrational even if the length of any real, physical circle's diameter or circumference is entirely rational. That's because pi can be seen as a limit to the relationship between circumference...
View ArticleComment by TKoL on How to prove the world is real, and you're not just...
@Howwhye it might matter a little bit. If someone is convinced life isn't real, and thus can justify torturing other humans because they aren't really there, then it matters a whole lot if they're...
View ArticleComment by TKoL on Pattern of shoppers arriving to a cash register
But why would customers arrive in batches?
View ArticleComment by TKoL on Why things don't happen all at once?
Maybe it did happen all at once. Block universe is an idea
View ArticleComment by TKoL on Why are most philosophers non-theists and most...
I don't know why this question in particular was closed as opinion based. Half the posts on this stack exchange are equally or more opinion based than this - philosophy has very few settled matters. I...
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