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    Thread: Proof Mind is Fundamental and Matter Doesn't Exist
Post: RE: Proof Mind is Fundamental and Matter Doesn't E...
Benny I think you are getting confused between how perfect our senses are and the validity of the senses.  Senses do not have to be perfect to grasp reality.  Because we cannot see a quantum event doe...
 Captain Scarlet Philosophy 348 79060 October 3, 2015 at 1:42 pm
    Thread: Proof Mind is Fundamental and Matter Doesn't Exist
Post: RE: Proof Mind is Fundamental and Matter Doesn't E...
(October 1, 2015 at 6:42 pm)bennyboy Wrote: (October 1, 2015 at 2:50 pm)Captain Scarlet Wrote: Benny I am not begging the question. I tend towards that conclusion because there is overwhelming, in...
 Captain Scarlet Philosophy 348 79060 October 2, 2015 at 3:18 pm
    Thread: Proof Mind is Fundamental and Matter Doesn't Exist
Post: RE: Proof Mind is Fundamental and Matter Doesn't E...
(October 1, 2015 at 5:00 am)bennyboy Wrote: (October 1, 2015 at 3:09 am)Captain Scarlet Wrote: It maybe that to you it is like saying "red is an apple".  "Ideas are not subject to gravity", is lik...
 Captain Scarlet Philosophy 348 79060 October 1, 2015 at 2:50 pm
    Thread: Proof Mind is Fundamental and Matter Doesn't Exist
Post: RE: Proof Mind is Fundamental and Matter Doesn't E...
(September 30, 2015 at 7:37 pm)bennyboy Wrote: (September 30, 2015 at 2:24 pm)Captain Scarlet Wrote: Idealist mantras (and that was my point) do beg the question when the seek to conclude mind as ...
 Captain Scarlet Philosophy 348 79060 October 1, 2015 at 3:09 am
    Thread: Proof Mind is Fundamental and Matter Doesn't Exist
Post: RE: Proof Mind is Fundamental and Matter Doesn't E...
(September 29, 2015 at 7:45 pm)bennyboy Wrote: (September 29, 2015 at 10:31 am)Captain Scarlet Wrote: But I think this can be delivered back to the door of Idealism with interest: - the often rep...
 Captain Scarlet Philosophy 348 79060 September 30, 2015 at 2:24 pm
    Thread: Proof Mind is Fundamental and Matter Doesn't Exist
Post: RE: Proof Mind is Fundamental and Matter Doesn't E...
(September 25, 2015 at 9:04 am)bennyboy Wrote: (September 25, 2015 at 7:54 am)Rhythm Wrote: We'd agreed to that -long- ago, but it's uninformative /w regards to proving a metaphysical claim and mo...
 Captain Scarlet Philosophy 348 79060 September 29, 2015 at 10:31 am
    Thread: One Agnostic's View of the New Atheists
Post: RE: One Agnostic's View of the New Atheists
I rather like the New Atheists. Not for their arguments, but their rhetoric. They have helped in at least 2 ways. 1) Prompted people to think, and 2) they had the balls to stand up and call out religi...
 Captain Scarlet Christianity 68 9033 September 26, 2015 at 3:53 pm
    Thread: Proof Mind is Fundamental and Matter Doesn't Exist
Post: RE: Proof Mind is Fundamental and Matter Doesn't E...
RATIONAL AKD a collection of information in the form of thoughts, which make up a sense of reason and self awareness. those would be bare minimum qualities of mind. My question was asking you to def...
 Captain Scarlet Philosophy 348 79060 September 24, 2015 at 12:53 pm
    Thread: Proof Mind is Fundamental and Matter Doesn't Exist
Post: RE: Proof Mind is Fundamental and Matter Doesn't E...
(September 23, 2015 at 2:51 pm)Rational AKD Wrote: that is not what i said... you even quoted my specific statement and still didn't address it. i didn't say anything about the Kochen-Specker theore...
 Captain Scarlet Philosophy 348 79060 September 24, 2015 at 12:28 pm
    Thread: Proof Mind is Fundamental and Matter Doesn't Exist
Post: RE: Proof Mind is Fundamental and Matter Doesn't E...
(September 24, 2015 at 8:52 am)Rhythm Wrote: You seem to be making a variation of the same woeful mistake good ole AKD made, btw.  u seem to think that for something to be observed...you have to see...
 Captain Scarlet Philosophy 348 79060 September 24, 2015 at 11:05 am
    Thread: Proof Mind is Fundamental and Matter Doesn't Exist
Post: RE: Proof Mind is Fundamental and Matter Doesn't E...
(September 23, 2015 at 10:17 am)bennyboy Wrote: (September 23, 2015 at 8:08 am)Captain Scarlet Wrote: No I have responded by saying that they have values in spacetime and are therefore not ideas.R...
 Captain Scarlet Philosophy 348 79060 September 23, 2015 at 2:16 pm
    Thread: Proof Mind is Fundamental and Matter Doesn't Exist
Post: RE: Proof Mind is Fundamental and Matter Doesn't E...
RATIONAL AKD  “no model of realism is compatible with the findings of QM”.  “nice try. but non-local hidden variables were also falsified by violations of the Leggett inequality." Far from being a ni...
 Captain Scarlet Philosophy 348 79060 September 23, 2015 at 12:15 pm
    Thread: Proof Mind is Fundamental and Matter Doesn't Exist
Post: RE: Proof Mind is Fundamental and Matter Doesn't E...
(September 23, 2015 at 7:04 am)bennyboy Wrote: (September 23, 2015 at 4:19 am)Captain Scarlet Wrote: But strip materialism back to its bare metal and it proposes that the world is made of stuff.  ...
 Captain Scarlet Philosophy 348 79060 September 23, 2015 at 8:08 am
    Thread: Proof Mind is Fundamental and Matter Doesn't Exist
Post: RE: Proof Mind is Fundamental and Matter Doesn't E...
(September 22, 2015 at 5:30 pm)bennyboy Wrote: As I mentioned to Rhythm, the terminology used in materialism is rooted in billiard balls.  If you have a formless field which cannot be represented un...
 Captain Scarlet Philosophy 348 79060 September 23, 2015 at 4:19 am
    Thread: Proof Mind is Fundamental and Matter Doesn't Exist
Post: RE: Proof Mind is Fundamental and Matter Doesn't E...
(September 22, 2015 at 12:14 pm)bennyboy Wrote: I'd say "matter fields" is an oxymoron.  But you say QM "particles" aren't formless, which I find interesting; what is their form? Why would a "matter...
 Captain Scarlet Philosophy 348 79060 September 22, 2015 at 12:50 pm
    Thread: Stefan Molyneux
Post: RE: Stefan Molyneux
Mixed for me.  I find myself agreeing with a lot of what he has to say, but it can come across badly.  Also I was also surprised that (during a debate) he was so open to a theist perspective on Evolut...
 Captain Scarlet Philosophy 7 2459 September 22, 2015 at 12:15 pm
    Thread: Proof Mind is Fundamental and Matter Doesn't Exist
Post: RE: Proof Mind is Fundamental and Matter Doesn't E...
(September 22, 2015 at 10:34 am)bennyboy Wrote: (September 22, 2015 at 10:03 am)Rhythm Wrote: Who does that? How else would you define QM particles? The problem with QM is that the very name (mech...
 Captain Scarlet Philosophy 348 79060 September 22, 2015 at 12:05 pm
    Thread: Idealism explained in 90 seconds
Post: RE: Idealism explained in 90 seconds
(September 19, 2015 at 5:54 am)bennyboy Wrote: So you loved that "other" idealism thread so much that you had to start a troll thread?  Why not just put this video in the existing thread?Yes I could...
 Captain Scarlet Philosophy 8 2570 September 22, 2015 at 6:09 am
    Thread: Idealism explained in 90 seconds
Post: RE: Idealism explained in 90 seconds
(September 19, 2015 at 2:55 pm)Rational AKD Wrote: (September 19, 2015 at 5:54 am)bennyboy Wrote: So you loved that "other" idealism thread so much that you had to start a troll thread?  Why not j...
 Captain Scarlet Philosophy 8 2570 September 22, 2015 at 6:02 am
    Thread: Proof Mind is Fundamental and Matter Doesn't Exist
Post: RE: Proof Mind is Fundamental and Matter Doesn't E...
[quote]Rational AKD I don't know about bennyboy here, but when I talk about idealistic implications of QM, I don't refer to it's 'spookiness' or our lack of knowledge on the subject. I refer to actual...
 Captain Scarlet Philosophy 348 79060 September 22, 2015 at 4:20 am