Recent content by JoeDawg

I think you're oversimplifying. Temperature is much more complicated than the F scale. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temperature Both temperature and time, in the everyday sense, are very regular and measurable, it is when you get to the extremes that things get all hinkey.

No. All it really tells us, is that the decision making process is distinct from the self-reflective process. It actually makes sense that the latter would require more processing. Compare how much more difficult it is to learn to drive a car... than it is to drive one after you have learned. In...

Close. A compatibalist believes that a determinist universe is necessary for freewill. Without cause and effect, you can't choose anything. So without determinism, freewill is meaningless. The compatibalist notion of freewill is more in line with the idea of local autonomy. Freedom from...

Been there, done that, oligarchy's are by their nature tyrannical. Sounds like Plato is just playing semantics and ignoring human reality.

And who decides who is "the most honorable and knowledgeable"? Should we vote on it?

I don't know what this means.

Just to clarify, Nietzsche's concept has nothing to do with rebirth or physics, or any kind of metaphysical recurrance. Nietzsche used the concept as an affirmation of life: Would you knowing what you know, live every minute of your life, no changes, over again... infinitely? He was...

This may help... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy_of_mathematics#Empiricism "Empiricism is a form of realism that denies that mathematics can be known a priori at all. It says that we discover mathematical facts by empirical research, just like facts in any of the other sciences...

"When stepped on, a worm doubles up. That is clever. In that way he lessens the probability of being stepped on again. In the language of morality: humility." Nietzsche - Twilight of the Idols And I'm not sure Nietzsche equated 'clever' with good, in this particular instance.

Realism and Hard determinism are not synonymous. That's like saying I don't fart, the universe farts. Both are true of course, but when: I fart, its useful to know the source is me, in case you want to move away quickly. Our logic is based on our experience, that is not superfluous, its just...

Question 1 relies on omnipotence. Question 2 relies on omnipresense. Both may, or may not be aspects of a defined god. Depends on how you define god. If god is simply 'the creator', then suicide is prefectly possible. If god is something more eternal and pervasive then you would have a...

I agree with this. I think conceptually it follows like this: Newtonian Mechanics->Causation->Determinism->Freewill The further along you get the less well understood. Unfortunately, its even worse in terms of modern physics. We don't really have an understanding of what is described by...

Random, generally, can mean one of two things: 1)Unpredictable, from a given point of view. 2)Uncaused, by a previous event. The first one is easy, random in this sense is just a description based on either a simple lack of knowledge or the impossiblity of having enough knowledge. The...

Like I said before, you're redefining words. I'm not sure why you seem to be obsessed with using religious language to describe things which even you claim are not religious in nature. I suppose this is part of supporting your claim that theology is somehow central... but all you are really...

This is why atheists object when people say gods exist. Good then we agree, but then all you are talking about is conceptual thinking. Theology is just one manifestation of this, so it is not central to anything. This is not what most people mean by spirit. You seem to have your own...