immaterialist.bsky.social
I like to ponder what I am, what the Universe is, what it all means -- if anything.
1st class Hons history of ideas inc credit areas history & philosophy of science, mind body problem, science & religion Blog at https://ian-wardell.blogspot.com
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And I feel all things will come right at the very end. But, whilst we are alive and perhaps after too, understanding eludes us. Indeed, I think we don't have a scooby doo, but that's OK.
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I think our existence and the existence of all things is ultimately mysterious, beyond what the human mind is capable of fathoming. I'm comfortable with that. It makes life and all things exciting, mysterious, full of endless possibilities, full of promise.
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In spite of logic? No order in the Universe? I don't agree. I said before on Facebook:
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We should all try to limit our consumption of meat to minimise the suffering of animals, especially the more intelligent ones.
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It only has one meaning. Either they deny the existence of consciousness, or they do not. Which is it?
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Galen Strawson: “What is the silliest claim ever made? The competition is fierce, but I think the answer is easy. Some people have denied the existence of consciousness”
Aye.
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Proper real consciousness as in the experience of green, or a pain, the awareness that one is an enduring self etc. It's not radical, it's flat out insane. It denies the very thing we can be utterly certain of literally above everything else.
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2/2 and a whole host of other issues regarding the degradation of the environment might indicate that civilisation might only be around for another couple of hundred years or so, and things might get grim even before then.
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Each government, at least in the UK, is obsessed by economic growth. We have enough wealth already, it's just that the preponderance of the wealth is concentrated in the hands of a few.
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And I feel all things will come right at the very end. But, whilst we are alive and perhaps after too, understanding eludes us. Indeed, I think we don't have a scooby doo, but that's OK.
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Just get the 4060 when it's released. That's what I'll do. It'll be better than my current GTX 670
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The Bible needn't worry. I'm the opposite!
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Indeed, I believe our existence, the existence of all things, the nature of this reality we find ourselves cast in, is, to coin a phrase of J.B.S. Haldane's, not only stranger than we think, but stranger than we *can* think.
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Eventually we'll land on Mars, but it will take at least 30 years. I don't think we'll ever land on any other planets. I don't believe any human being will ever even leave the solar system.
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//One of the dumbest psyops in history is this idiotic faux populist faction being marketed to rightists which claims that a brave revolutionary movement is being led against the establishment by a plucky band of billionaires, defense contractors, Zionists, and DC swamp monsters.//
Speak English!
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4. Do we simply cease to exist at that point, or does our consciousness continue on, perhaps in a very different reality? Equally perplexing is that we don’t seem to have any clues as to the answer to any of these questions. Is it only me that finds this all really weird?
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3. And given that we do exist, why do we find ourselves encased in bags of flesh and bones? Isn’t that weird? What happens to our consciousness when this bag of flesh and bones eventually breaks down?
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2. Why do we find ourselves existing on the surface of a giant water covered ball that floats in the midst of an effective eternal nothingness rather than on an infinite flat plain? Why does anything exist rather than nothing at all? Might I never have existed?
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I have no idea what makes you imagine that free will entails no influence. This is attacking a straw man on steroids.
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William Tell director? Is there a William Tell film or something?
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I read an article by him yesterday, the telegraph I think. I haven't read his X posts. I lack sufficient knowledge to comment on what he says. But the tactic of flinging around words like "racist" doesn't achieve anything. If he's wrong his points should be addressed.
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That doesn't answer my question.
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What has he said that you disagree with?
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A blog post by me sums up my views.
ian-wardell.blogspot.com/2015/02/do-s...
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Oh good. So people in the UK won't need to subscribe to Netflix?
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That's disgraceful. They should be shown on BBC and ITV like they always are similar to the men's world cup.
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This isn't unimportant philosophical nitpicking. It fatally undermines all scientific explanations if we regard science as appealing to innate forces in the world to explain change and how the world evolves.
A blog post by me (one of my less popular posts!)
ian-wardell.blogspot.com/2022/03/self...
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But even if science could somehow "explain" the constants, the question then simply transfers to the question of why physical laws are as they are.