Ian Wardell: Philosophical Thoughts

5/11/2019  Update:  My most recent blog post -- A Causal Consciousness, Free Will, and Dualism -- covers all pertinent issues regarding fre...

If an individual never thinks philosophically, never questions his existence, what the world is about, what justifies certain moral stances ...

Should there be an afterlife I suspect we don't all go to the same place.  I would speculate that the afterlife realm will consist of di...

We very strongly feel the world exists out there independently of us. We feel it is solid, has colours, that sounds are out there and so o...

From an unknown author: One day, two frogs were enjoying the day in the barn when they accidently fell into the farmer's bucket of crea...

An interesting blog entry by someone regarding whether the self actually exists. Can the Chariot take us to the land of no-self? Here is...

Imagine 2 possible worlds: a) No psychics exist due to the fact that anomalous information acquisition is simply not possible i.e the phys...

A few months ago, as a result of making disparaging comments about Isaac Asimov's predictions in 1964 for 2014, someone asked me to mak...

We find ourselves in this world not knowing what we are, who we are, or why we are here.  Are we  mere meat robots with no free will living...

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