Discussion Let's discuss metaphysical topics

[blond_elf_bard]

• Is anything truly possible? Is anything impossible?
• Can you prove something doesn't exist?
• What does it mean to exist?
• If people could read minds, would lying be possible?

Doesn't have to be these, could be anything.

 

[Saudade]

no
no
it means to be present or sensed in some kind of form
no

 

[FinnCel]

• Is anything truly possible? Is anything impossible?
• Can you prove something doesn't exist?
• What does it mean to exist?
• If people could read minds, would lying be possible?

1. If something is logically coherent, then it is possible. If something is logically impossible, then it is impossible
2. Logically incoherent things are evidence for something not existing. Like there aren't invisible pink unicorns because it is impossible to be pink and invisible at the same time
3. That's a hard one. Either it can be observed or it has consciousness
4. Depends on if reading minds would happen all the time or not

 

[Deleted member 22907]

1. If something is logically coherent, then it is possible. If something is logically impossible, then it is impossible
2. Logically incoherent things are evidence for something not existing. Like there aren't invisible pink unicorns because it is impossible to be pink and invisible at the same time
3. That's a hard one. Either it can be observed or it has consciousness
4. Depends on if reading minds would happen all the time or not

I don't understand please simplify

 

[FinnCel]

I don't understand please simplify

No

 

[jerrycan dan]

Thoughts on farding and shidding?

3. That's a hard one. Either it can be observed or it has consciousness

How do you know you observe reality outside of your skull objectively though?

 

[Monk of Failure]

I'm not well right now, can't answer sorry

 

[Deleted member 22907]

No

I won't ask again

Explain more thoroughly

 

[FinnCel]

I won't ask again

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Explain more thoroughly

Make me

 

[Deleted member 22907]

Make me

OK YOU ASKED FO-

Oh shit I fell

My spaghetti is everywhere

We're even, for now, but only if you keep quiet about this

 

[mericks]

I spend a lot of time obsessing over the paradox of materialism vs dualism. Dualism is the idea that your soul or consciousness or whatever is separate from your physical body, and materialism is the idea that it's not (ie you're just a "biological computer").

All empirical evidence that has ever been collected supports materialism. Drugs, brain damage, etc can all influence your intelligence, personality and state of mind so that would seem to peg materialism as being the obviously correct school of thought.

The problem is that under materialism nothing can ever be anything more than the sum total of its components, so there's no explanation for what consciousness is or how it exists. Since everybody is aware of their own consciousness (or at least I am) this must mean that dualism is correct. But then if dualism is correct then there's no explanation why physical changes in your body have such drastic effects on consciousness and state of mind...

 

[FinnCel]

OK YOU ASKED FO-

Oh shit I fell

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My spaghetti is everywhere

We're even, for now, but only if you keep quiet about this

sorry to hear that and OK

 

[Deleted member 21514]

Me no smart

 

[blond_elf_bard]

I wrote about this in a paper, the short answer is no, unless you somehow could selectively choose what to share via that interface.

Interesting