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Title: Religious & Philosophical Topics
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Users activity: 117 posts per thread
Forum activity: 2 active threads during last week
 

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jt64
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World Philosopical Day?!
Published (2008-11-24 20:40:00)
Hi patison, Thanks for the reply, sorry it's taken this long for me to get 1/2 hour together to think about my response. Seriously though does anyone out there disagree with me on the first question. I do. The reason it is different is... So we're agreed it's different, just not why it's different? Hopefully this is because I didn't actually explain myself. IMO not because Bill is an 'innocent', and I am not...
MrWhizz
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World Philosopical Day?!
Published (2008-11-24 21:49:00)
This is why I don't see the scenarios as comparable and while you can argue that the 2nd and 3rd are identical enough for it to be inconsistent to give different answers to them it's perfectly reasonable to come to a different conclusion as to how to handle those 2 from how to handle Bill's situation. Comments anyone? I'm not necessarily advocating this but.. The people awaiting organ transplants are likely to have a...
Dounia
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World Philosopical Day?!
Published (2008-11-25 09:40:00)
I don't see the purpose of such an abstract, detached exercise. I am on the side of CP Snow's exposition of the divide between science and humanities. The analogy that springs to mind is the film/book of "Touching the Void". There a well-known climber (Simpson, wasn't it - one can always Google) was faced with the choice to cut the rope between himself and his companion who had fallen into a crevice from which...
  

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Started 1 week, 4 days ago (2008-11-20 17:40:00)  by SkintMonkey
An article with some questions on the BBC: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7739493.stm What are the answers?!
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Started 1 week, 5 days ago (2008-11-19 12:14:00)  by SkintMonkey
It seems to me that people have always(though I'm sure someone will tell me I'm wrong about this) applied a kinfd of evolutionary process when solving problems/engineering. So is this method of thinking built into humans and if it is so rudimentary could we be applying it incorrectly to how life evolved? Or am I talking rubbish?
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Started 2 weeks ago (2008-11-17 17:50:00)  by tiggershorty
Has anyone here read Doug Hofstadter's newish book I am a strange loop ISBN-10: 0465030793 ISBN-13: 978-0465030798 in which he puts forward his ideas about the "self" or "I" is? He does address some of the issues that have been aired in recent threads about materialism and soul and molecules and emergence of properties, symbolism and different levels of looking at brains, so some ...
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Started 3 weeks, 2 days ago (2008-11-08 11:52:00)  by hokusai2908
Hi Materialists do not believe what they claim to believe. May I make this crystal clear? A vanishingly small percentage, certainly less than one in a thousand (and certainly not including any materialist poster to this board) actually believes what he or she claims to believe. More than 999 materialists out of a thousand are simply deceiving themselves. ---------------- In order ...
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Started 2 weeks, 4 days ago (2008-11-13 13:38:00)  by CasperCCC
One for the materialists. Rather than let Martin put words in peoples' mouths, if the subject of immortal souls arises in science lessons, should children be told that: Currently there is no scientific evidence for immortal souls There is no such thing as an immortal soul It's beyond the scope of science, so we simply shouldn't allow discussion of it in science lessons...
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Started 2 weeks, 1 day ago (2008-11-16 20:33:00)  by manzanilla
well not quite. But "The Book of Dead Philosophers" by Simon Critchley appears on the New Statesman's Books of The Year list: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Book-Dead-Philosophers-Sim on-Critchl... manzanilla
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Started 2 weeks, 4 days ago (2008-11-13 21:39:00)  by hokusai2908
http://boards.fool.co.uk/Message.asp?mid=10025880 And rest of thread. And date. And movement in opinion, on anyone's part including my own, in two and a half years? Martin
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Started 2 weeks, 5 days ago (2008-11-12 18:18:00)  by MrWhizz
Decided to start a new thread to break a particular discussion out of the "Materialists don't believe...." thread. Primarily relating to the post below:- http://boards.fool.co.uk/Message.asp?mid=11309632 There was an acceptance that at least some memories require the "brain-cell network" for their storage and recollection. Even if we assume that "consciousness" survives bodily death...
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Started 2 weeks, 6 days ago (2008-11-11 12:37:00)  by RodX
This came up in the previous thread and I'm curious as to the prevailing view of the board. Do you believe that free will exists? Yes, I believe that free will exists No, I don't believe that free will exists I don't know Other Click here to see results so far.
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Started 2 weeks, 5 days ago (2008-11-12 11:45:00)  by jt64
Well the post has gone (and all subsequent posts including Casper's which made me laugh out loud) so this won't mean anything to those who did not see the post but I'd like to offer my sincere apologies to benjjackson and Martin as TPTB at TMF have concluded there is nothing underhand going on here. Martin knows what this relates to as he was the OP. Ben, if you didn't see the OP ...
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Started 1 week, 5 days ago (2008-11-19 12:14:00)  by SkintMonkey
It seems to me that people have always(though I'm sure someone will tell me I'm wrong about this) applied a kinfd of evolutionary process when solving problems/engineering. So is this method of thinking built into humans and if it is so rudimentary could we be applying it incorrectly to how life evolved? Or am I talking rubbish?
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Started 1 week, 4 days ago (2008-11-20 17:40:00)  by SkintMonkey
An article with some questions on the BBC: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7739493.stm What are the answers?!
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