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dionisos
23 Aug 2016
Is suicide morally acceptable?
Agree
Suicide can reduce suffering a lot.
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dionisos
22 Aug 2016
Is "ought" derived from "is"?
Disagree
The same than blacktrance.
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dionisos
22 Aug 2016
Should atheists directly challenge religious beliefs?
Agree
Beliefs have consequences, they doesn’t live outside reality.
False beliefs have generally bad consequences. We can, if done well, reduce false beliefs by challenging them. |
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dionisos
22 Aug 2016
Could a computer ever be conscious?
Agree
Yes, we are one example.
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dionisos
22 Aug 2016
Is capitalism good?
Disagree
It can’t be good nor bad in itself.
It could be better or worse than another economical system, given a particular ethical system. I think there is a lot of better economical systems than capitalist. (given most consequentialist ethics). |
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dionisos
22 Aug 2016
Should Julian Assange be considered a criminal for Wikileaks?
Disagree
No, states should strive to almost complete transparency, they are way too much corruptible without it.
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dionisos
22 Aug 2016
Is trying to "change the world" foolish?
Disagree
If you have goals which doesn’t only concern yourself (any consequentialist ethics), then it is logical to try to change the world.
(In fact any goal is about changing the world, but here i assume you are speaking about changing a lot of the world, not just very local things) |
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dionisos
22 Aug 2016
Is the unconscious philosophical zombie possible?
Agree
It could seem strange to some, to imagine philosophical zombies talking about consciousness, the important thing to understand, is that they wouldn’t really be speaking about consciousness.
It is only us, seeing the thing with a external conscious view, that put concepts on the words they use. Their brain would contain the exact same model of themselves that our brain, with the same self-referential structures, they would speak about consciousness (in the exact same way i did) because of these self-referential structures, but without any conscious understanding of it. I am not speaking of consciousness because i have consciousness, i am speaking of consciousness because of the self-referential structures in my brain. So, how am i able to speak differently of my consciousness and of my brain self-referential structures ? I am NOT capable of it, i am only going one level up in the self-referential structures. Without the self-referential structures, i would not be able to speak at all about consciousness, but it would not mean i am less conscious, i would still have a subjective reality, but i would not be able to understand that, because there would be no self-referential structure in this subjectivity. When you correctly understand the first level : being conscious without any understanding of it, without any way to speak about it, you can understand the level up, when there is self-referential structures, which create a understanding in the subjective reality, but is still not equal to the self-referential structures. |
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dionisos
22 Aug 2016
Does God exist?
Disagree
Nothing special to say. (just trying to have enough data to see who agree with me on other subjects)
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dionisos
22 Aug 2016
Is free will an illusion?
Mostly Agree
The problem of the concept of free-will come down to the problem of the concept of possibility.
We make choices : A choice is the act to select one possibility between many. (it could easily be extended, but it is the main idea) The problem is that a possibility is relative to knowledge : That something is a only mean that we don’t know if this thing is true or false. (it is not a physical problem, the universe could be deterministic or not, it doesn’t change that, it is purely conceptual) Some will not see the relativity of some possibilities, for them it will feel like the possibility is intrinsic, independent of their own knowledge. So when they make a choice, it feel like they have selected a intrinsic possibility, so it is like a pure act of creation, something with at least a part which is . So they have to create the concept of free-will to designate this very thing. The compatibilists are only redefining the concept of free-will by removing what is fundamental in this concept. |
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Side Effect
21 Apr 2015
Does God exist?
Neutral
yeah, God is invisible to the natural eye.
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Capricious
25 Mar 2015
Does God exist?
Disagree
It's highly unlikely.
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