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You appear to have no opinion on my responses to your questions of.. Y ? I am not certain GOD did. I do however have a degree of certainty that GOD created the reality we are able to consciously be aware of. The Bible does not literally state that GOD created the Universe. I don't think of the trin...

You appear to have no opinion on my responses to your questions of.. Y ? - if God created the universe, how did he do it? I am not certain GOD did. I do however have a degree of certainty that GOD created the reality we are able to consciously be aware of. The Bible does not literally state that GO...

You all know the setup: a surgeon has one healthy patient and five terminally ill patients; he can save the lives of the ill patients, but only by harvesting organs from the healthy patient, who will die in the process. Should he or shouldn't he? The utilitarian would say he should, because you get ...

You appear to have no opinion on my responses to your questions of.. Y ? Let me think about it and get back to you. Been working on something else (see my new thread about the surgeon problem). Also Christmas is bloody chaos — promise myself every year that next year will be different, but it never...

In contrast, you were quite the opposite I suppose? Could you elaborate on your own reasoning as a young fella as to why you reasoned it was all, I suppose, rather daft..in particular any feelings re Christ? I'm not sure reasoning came into it much at 14. It was mostly just the realisation that I h...

I just did some basic research on Baptist Church. So, did you opt for the baptism, and if so, at what age? No, I was never baptised. I don't think I'd thought about it, and in any case it is supposed to be adult baptism, and 14 is hardly adult. After 14 I wouldn't have wanted it anyway. Your accoun...

@ 14 years old, wow. What was your reasoning to think, Jesus didn't do any of it? I read a book on reincarnation. It didn't make me believe in reincarnation, but it made me aware of other religions. I became an intolerable precocious teenage smartarse, always questioning whether one could believe a...

The codeine thang was a way for me to relax when GOD was pissing me off years ago.. :wink: He and I haven't spoken much since I stopped being a Christian 58 years ago. I kinda hope he's there, but I suspect he isn't. @ 14 years old, wow. What was your reasoning to think, Jesus didn't do any of it? ...

I can see that AI can be useful as a tool for pointing you towards people you may not have read. I want to read Christine Korsgaard — I came across an interesting article by her a few days ago, and I've put one of her books on my Christmas wish list, though I don't know if Santa will deliver it. :)...

I think coffee is one of the worst drugs that's infected the planet. I used to read BBC news with a cup of tea before I started my shift - their science/tech section, there was a study done by one of the UK uni's into caffeine and when these students concluded their research ALL of them stopped dri...

..so ya caved! :) You made a joke of it, which is fine. Eggcellophane, or whatever his name is, was just rude. You do rude, you get rude back. I looooove morphine. I used to separate the codeine from the paracetamol in tablets just for the codeine (liver converts it to morphine)...but I am a good b...

Need I point out the irony in the above? You subjectively think that yourself and Flash have given consideration to boring questions like the one you posed to an AI, more than me! (* you were correct) I far more interested in comprehending the true nature of REAL IT Y ...to waste my time on such no...

Just so we're clear, this is the question asked of ChatGPT: 'is good self-recommending?' So, according to you, that's not at all an obscure question in the field of Ethical Theory? * bullshit * 'Obscure' is a purely subjective term. No question is either clear or obscure in itself, it merely seems ...

Well I suppose this laptop has a whole special button for summoning MS Copilot, so perhaps that can have a go... Me: can you name any philosophers who have naturalised the good to recommendation? Cop: Yes, several philosophers have explored the concept of naturalizing the good, which involves groun...

I'm still thinking about my actual question. But I don't think I'll be asking an AI program for help in future. No, AI is not going to help you with an obscure question like that. AI doesn't do any of its own reasoning, 'thinking' so pretty useless for checking an alternative analysis of a philosop...