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You know when people claim the know something for SURE about minds I guess this might have less to do with them beeing atheist OR religious but with beeing nacricisticly in love with their reasoning capabilities OR beeing nacricistically in love with their reasoning capabilities. But here is...

It has long been argued that evil does not exist because psychopaths are born without empathy and are hence not really evil. This is not true. Psychopaths can choose if they want to be empathic or not - they just choose to switch empathy on for the wrong reasons...

Leaving religion might be good for extroverted persons. Extroversion often correpsondents to narcicism and religions that talk a lot about guild, modesty and things that are greater than you might not exactly be the narcicists cup of tea. But for emotionally vulnerable people (people that I...

I think there really might be a route to disproof evolution if you can proof that true unecessary evil exist. And an unecessary evil would be to experience free will while it is not there and in reality good for nothing. Similarly you do not need a conscious experience of pain to avoid pain...

Classical free will even before determinsm had limits. Free will is only possible if you obtain information over a certain situation in time to be able to react. If a bullet is flying to you with close to light speed you will propably not be able to decide if you want to avoid it or not :) Now...

From the start you have been asking questions about me, my motivation and you continue to speculate about it. My person is not what I want to discuss when doing philosophical thought experiments. I want to discuss the thought experiment I proposed initially.

Frankly I have just lost interest to defend human dignity.

I try to defend human dignity from a materialistic world view that sees humans as pure robots of genes directed by primitive instincts preprogrammed by evolution.

I see an analogy between desiring the fruit of knowledge about good and evil and trying to know good and evil by brain science. But I do not want to defend the science of neurology. To the opposite. I see something false l in applying what I call this "frozen" or dead concepts to something that...

A good god would make us gods if that would be good for us. I explained why it is propably not good (not possible to be all knowing more exactly).

The fruit of evil can be interpreted in two distinct ways: 1. Eating it shows evil intend in yourself (in the form of disobedience to god, but I would regard the nature of the victim as secondary for the following argumentation) - and he punishes you with death? 2. Eating it shows that you...

Because I try to preserve human dignity I try to argue it it is outside of time and space. But I could need help here :)

KnowSelf I do not exactly try to be good, I start with the premisse that the human soul is good, to see where it leads me to (and if it produces paradoxes). It is a philosophical technique. But I made a very haunting discovery this night: If the world is build to be amoral humans are by...

I see only two possibilities: either I am a product of nature, nature is ammoral (amoral equals evil to me) and hence everything that I am and that is alive is evil. If I do not feel this evilness I am a kind of drug addict living in an illusion created by some opportunistic chemicals in my...

If the soul soul is subject to entropy I must guess it will as well be evil. I constructed the hpyothesis of the soul soul in the hope that I can avoid this outcome that all souls are (to some degree) evil.

I am just doing it as an incomplete thought experiment, and I have no clue if I will ever arrive at anything meaningfull with it. The only thing that seems to me relatively clear now is that no mind subjected to the laws of thermodynamics can be truly good and that the situation gets even worse...

I would define the soul as that part of your character which is not part of the laws of thermodynamics and the material world in contrast to the more primitive part which is. A better definition is not possible for something you can't measure- I am not sure how it in a dualistic sense this...

Heterotrophs like you and me need to feed on the energy of other life forms to counteract entropy and hence stay alive. The ecosystem itself as well needs energy (feeds on the sun) to repair itself against the information loss through entropy, a destruction which is a continous process per...

What I do not understand is how the conecpt of hell as torment which comes from egypt could get so popular with the West. It must be really the poisoned legacy of the catholic church.

I should have better named it "on the impossibility of knowing that you are doing something good". Have you ever tried to save some people and it turned into absolute mayham? You are not alone! As an environmental scientist I guess that it is impossible to improve the earth or the economy...