The Philosophy Discussion Forum

We were born into this world without any desire for it, without even being aware of it. Why wasn’t it possible that someone else could have existed instead of me? Every single day, thousands of children are born, and perhaps everything happens randomly — but why am I part of this randomness? There ...

NOTE: I don't think evolution is completely random; however, there seems to be a random component in it, which is mutation. However, one might be able to say that mutation is ultimately "governed" by natural forces that cause something to mutate in a particular way, but something is not g...

Picture a speck. Now picture that speck on a dot. Now picture that dot among a billion dots. Now picture those billion dots on a surface, like a page but infinite on the x and y axis. Now picture a trillion of the pages stacked upon each other. Now picture those infinite pages are in a speck, and a...

If so, then bovine executions are justified. Only in societies is morality relevant; in isolation, morality is meaningless, even absurd. Life lives upon life, the inescapable harsh reality of nature. Because we only exist in relationship, then we only exist in society, even if the society is just t...

Impenitent wrote: ↑Sat Jun 13, 2026 3:21 pm decent medical care only prolongs your separation from god

-Imp

LOL! THE DUH FACTOR!

We were born into this world without any desire for it, without even being aware of it. Why wasn’t it possible that someone else could have existed instead of me? Every single day, thousands of children are born, and perhaps everything happens randomly — but why am I part of this randomness? There ...

A religious airhead, and that is directly from the talking snake.

Anyone else enjoy exploring the different theories of Consciousness? I'd like to be able to understand as many of them as I can. For the most part, they can be broken down into 3 main theories. Materialism - the mind is the brain (or created by the brain). Brain states=mind states. It appears that ...

None of what you write even gets a line or two without self-contradicting. Example: No, if everything is subjective, one does not know that there is a world at all. Descartes shows that. No, then, according to Subjectivism, like all other knowledge, biology is merely subjective, and has nothing to ...

Is the meaning of this sentence merely "subjective"? Or do you think you're telling us the objective truth? None of what you write even gets a line or two without self-contradicting. Example: One can never escape one's subjective consciousness; that is how one knows a world at all. No, if...

For a subjective consciousness, there is no such thing as the objective; the objective is a mistaken consensus across a subjective collective. That statement is the only known truth. But if there is a truth -- ANY truth, even one -- such as popeye's statement or your agreement with him, then subjec...

All meaning is subjective. Is the meaning of this sentence merely "subjective"? Or do you think you're telling us the objective truth? One can never escape one's subjective consciousness; that is how one knows a world at all. Biology is the measure and the means of all things, and in its ...

Old -age memories are the constitution's memories of the context/s it has lived through, and which have defined its psyche, its identity, for context/s defines in a helter- shelter manner. If you did not choose your context, you did not choose your identity.

Aesthetics is a biological evaluation, for art is experience, and only biology experiences. It is the experience of ideal imperfect forms, whether biological or inanimate, in that biology is the measure and the meaning of all things. Imperfect in that perfection is unobtainable, for imperfection is ...

For a subjective consciousness, there is no such thing as the objective; the objective is a mistaken consensus across a subjective collective. That statement is the only known truth. But if there is a truth -- ANY truth, even one -- such as Popeye's statement or your agreement with him, then subjec...