Toughest Philosophical Questions

[TickTockMan]

Originally Posted by Solace

I think you might have missed the true Solipsist question here. It's not just the suggestion that your pain is part of your imagination. But rather, that your pain is part of my imagination.

I'm okay with that.

If my pain is your imagination, then truly, you are God. Who am
I to question your plan for my pain?

[Solace]

Originally Posted by TickTockMan

I'm okay with that.

If my pain is your imagination, then truly, you are God. Who am
I to question your plan for my pain?

Oh I agree it's a messed up philosophy. But you hit the nail on the head. Basically, Solipsist's think that they're God.

[Whoever]

You actually met a solipsist? That's interesting. I can't imagine a worse way of losing ones reason. Under the circumstance manic depression seems a perfectly rational response.

[TickTockMan]

Originally Posted by Aedes

Hmm, the Nobel committee didn't think so.

Well, the society of film reviewers didn't care for Silent Hill, and that's one
of my favorite guilty pleasure movies . . .

Originally Posted by Aedes

So in more robust terms, his question is how is it possible for us to go on living once the true meaninglessness of life has been fully aprehended.

I'm still here . . . and I've got a pretty good grip on how meaningless it is.

Originally Posted by Aedes

Fine, I know that fundamentally I'm a thinking being. But damn, what next if everything I -- everything we -- do will be wiped out by death?

My question is, "so what?" I live a life that is meaningful in the interim. So I die and it's all gone. Oh well. A million years from now, who's ever going to care?

Originally Posted by Aedes

And the answer to his question isn't your passion for life. It's a philosophical question about how we go on. The Myth of Sisyphus is where this is expounded.

Didn't Sisyphus find meaning in his meaningless (absurd) task at the end? I thought that was more or less Camus' conclusion, that meaning is found in the confrontation with life's little absurdities . . . such as our relentless and somewhat deranged search for some sort of greater meaning?

[jknilinux]

Does causality exist?

[TickTockMan]

Originally Posted by jknilinux

Does causality exist?

Yes. Something in this forum caused you to post here. Your post caused me to post back that the answer is yes.

It goes all the way back to the Big Bang . . . if not earlier.

[jknilinux]

So you think...

The truth is, though, that the only reason why you say it exists is because of inductive logic. So, you can't know it exists with 100% certainty. Ha HAA!!

[Aedes]

The infinite regress of causality is a figment of human imagination. Energy is transferred as a function of time, the resulting state comes about probabilistically. This exists. Cause and effect do not, they are just human abstractions.

[Whoever]

How can probability not be the effect of a cause?

[Aedes]

Originally Posted by Whoever

How can probability not be the effect of a cause?

Probability is not an effect. It's a description of a situation.