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Friday, 12 May 2017

Some quotes by me

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Various quotes I've made on facebook, sometimes after a few beers! There's 2 possibilities: a) This is the only life there is. When ...
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Monday, 8 May 2017

Arguing with people

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It's an extremely common tendency to try and justify one's position on any topic by seeking out those opponents who advance the...
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Sunday, 30 April 2017

The claim that people who have had a "near death experience" are not dead.

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People keep saying that NDE's necessarily cannot provide any evidence for an afterlife, since those who underwent the experience didn...
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Sunday, 2 April 2017

Who am I?

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Worth watching for those who know nothing about philosophy. What is it that makes me me throughout my life? We might say the self, ...
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Monday, 27 March 2017

What philosophical questions does science answer?

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Just reading the following recently published article: Mind, Matter And Materialism Near the beginning the author says: "Questions t...
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Monday, 13 February 2017

Is suffering incompatible with a higher purpose?

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If it's considered that suffering is incompatible with some higher purpose to our existence, then what would the world have to be like s...
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Thursday, 2 February 2017

Feel the rapture of being alive!

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Joseph Campbell in The Power of Myth said: “People say that what we’re all seeking is a meaning for life. I don’t think that’s what we’r...
Tuesday, 8 November 2016

A creator or a multiverse?

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Let's imagine there only existed one planet in the entire Universe, and it is Earth. Now I would suggest that it would be utterly extra...
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Monday, 19 September 2016

An extremely short refutation of materialism

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Think of Lego. You can stick the bricks together and make lots of interesting things. But if sticking together a load of lego bricks -- e...
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Thursday, 18 August 2016

Keith Augustine in "The Myth of an Afterlife"

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Does the thesis that the brain produces the mind cohere well with our overall background knowledge?   In the book The Myth of an Afterlif...
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Sunday, 10 July 2016

Sean Carroll and the philosophy of mind and science

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I recently read the following article by Sean Carroll who is a theoretical physicist.  In it he says:   If these mental properties aff...
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Friday, 8 April 2016

Neither Modern Materialism nor Science as currently conceived can explain Consciousness

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Introduction I want to make it clear at the outset that when I refer to consciousness, I’m primarily thinking about qualia in its br...
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Saturday, 19 March 2016

Materialism/Physicalism is incompatible with our ability to reason

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5/11/2019 Edited to add: For an expanded and superior consideration of this issue, see my  A Causal Consciousness, Free Will, and Dualism . ...
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Thursday, 4 February 2016

The self and its experiences

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Is helpful to distinguish between the self and its experiences. What is the self? I suggest it is that underlying reality making one the ver...
Saturday, 19 December 2015

Stephen Law's opinion on "invisible beings"

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The philosopher Stephen Law has recently written an article entitled: Why are we humans so prone to believing spooky nonsense? The beginni...