Recent content by the_truth

Thank for all the insights, I never thought that light could be absorbed and re-emitted at exactly the same frequency and in the general direction it originally came from, it seems a little far fetched. I thought that most light passed through the electron fields interacting between atoms and...

I don't believe there is a hedonistic imperative, if we were ruled by pleasure it would be like we were experiencing uncontrollable pain and we would cease to have free will or time to think how we want. For the time being we should concentrate on eradicating poverty and allowing people...

The laws determinning the passage of light through varying densities of transparent material and through varying "acceleration" caused by a common field of gravity have similarities. I prefer to think of warping of the time space continuum as an increase in density. Light bends as it passes...

I have just solved this problem. Yes, we do. Unless there was a machine which could replicate you exactly, we all experience different sensations when sensing the same thing. We also have different understandings when we think about the world around us, because we don't learn in exactly the...

neo-cortex

"The Truth You say that "rational debate is the only way to determine whether something is true or not." Unfortunately this is the opposite of the truth. Aristotle concluded that "Actual (true) knowledge is identical with its object", and this still apears to be the case to philosophers. This...

Think of it in terms of probabilities. This will answer your question I believe, but I am sure there are many other examples and answers which also prove hte passage of time. Let's say you shuffle the 4 cards and lay them down again. In the first instant you put down a king of hearts. In...

"How so? One could extend that and say people are flawed. And people do science as well as religion." Because rational debate is the only way to determine whether something is true or not. Everyone from all religions agrees that under certain conditions F=MA. However they all disagree with...

No one fears the future. They fear pain and misery.

Actually there is a definitive answer and I've just composed it on the spot! It is logical that if we all think and do what is best for all sentient life, now and in the future, we can generate the maximum amount of "pleasure" possible. There is no point in leading a life of hedonism as...

I disagree with everyone here completely and I'm right to... All religions in existence are flawed and have been disproven and we don't know enough to create some sort of universal religion anyway. Maybe the universal religion would have some ideas generated thus far by ordinary religions...

"I have a problem with dualism since it just moves the "observer"-problem, but what if the "second observer" and the car is the same thing." I see no contradiction here. If a person looks at a scientist and the scientist knows everything about the brain of this person, I fail to see how the...

People can do things which are evil in the full knowledge that what they are doing is evil. They simply don't care. ... I cannot believe where this conversation has progressed everyone seems to be peddling the obvious and the answer is so simple, also the title is rather silly..

If we did not have language we would invent a form of unspoken language in our minds in order to understand the same concepts we are used to using language for. We do it all the time, when we remember how to tie our shoe laces. Can you describe how to tie your shoe laces? You would have to...

Religions should abandon things like god and faith and focus purely on things which actually do good, such as their morality and ethics. Basically anything they believe in which cannot withstand debate should be discarded.