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AFM-1 There is genuine semantic intentionality: some states are genuinely about things. AFM-2 Genuine semantic intentionality is not identical to mere causal covariance. AFM-3 A purely structural/causal description does not by itself specify semantic content. AFM-4 Therefore, if semantic intentional...

Immorality is ignoring, or rejecting conscience. I would tend to agree...but then, I can rationally do that, because I think conscience is a gift from God, and it's wrong to reject what God has revealed. But how can others? Given something like Naturalism, Physicalism or Materialism to be at the ba...

Then psychopaths are "moral"? Their "inner experience of conscience" remains unbothered by anything they do. So they must be as moral as anybody else, right? That doesn't follow that psychopaths are moral from what I said. Psychopaths don't experience conscience or completely re...

Morality to me is your inner experience of conscience. Then psychopaths are "moral"? Their "inner experience of conscience" remains unbothered by anything they do. So they must be as moral as anybody else, right? That doesn't follow that psychopaths are moral from what I said. P...

Morality to me is your inner experience of conscience. Ethics would be how you apply your morality in the world. We all measure deservedness because it's the virtue that aligns and balances all other virtues. Honesty is as deserves and so forth. How one feels about virtues, or meanings of good chara...

...it mathematically demands a single conclusion: they inherited that specific piece of DNA from a shared common ancestor who suffered the initial infection. Or that both were created as is, but out of the same sort of materials. How is this refuted? By not being logically demanded at all. That's l...

Telomeres, endogenous retroviruses, and genetic patterns as evidence of evolution: The human genome contains roughly 3 billion base pairs. When a retrovirus inserts itself, it chooses a location across these billions of options.The mathematical probability of two entirely separate species being infe...

Thanks, I'll look through it some more

Lastly, what is stopping the universe from being a perpetual, self referential loop. Replace God with universe, and the universe is the self existent thing that produces contingencies that come and go.

Then is God the complete initiator of his own cause and effect? God must move to act, and to create thus cause and effect are necessary for a God to do anything at all.

Secondly how is God timeless?

I just want to know if exist extends past the physical, and our reality is merely a theatre of passing forms. If humans didn't always exist, why should we exist at all? Is the act of human conception purely accidental byproduct, and never anything more? Each individuation of properties is not the sa...

Humans have a nature of heart or spirit that each of us falls into. The nature you become determines your level of freedom of will. So not everyone is the same. Also, depending on your nature, you are free to will what you will according to the freedom your nature allows you. Some are slaves to thei...

Since I'm shaped by my past up until this very moment I would say there is a constancy of self that grows, and changes, but never forgets what once was, and sometimes still remains through the changes. The constancy of self never goes away even experiencing changes. Also with regards to objects I wo...

This is my perspective: Life is creating meaning and relationship with all those things a person chooses to care about and comes their way while they are alive. In general a person can choose a life of values and virtues, or vices and codes of bad conduct. Even joy, love, and peace bring the pain of...

Everything is in constant motion and that includes space, time , matter, and energy. I don't think anything is static to even measure a fixed point. Wouldn't fractals be the best method of simulating reality? Don't patterns govern how the universe works? Gravity creates order. If our existence was s...