Philosophy - February 2007

I was thinking that free will is just a product of consciousness, since we don't have the ability to know all the causes that produce an effect. But I could be wrong. What are your thoughts?

2007-02-20 04:49:46 · 7 answers · asked by Subconsciousless 7

2007-02-20 04:29:14 · 8 answers · asked by Charanjeet Singh 1

2007-02-20 04:00:13 · 32 answers · asked by sleeping beauty 1

2007-02-20 03:57:05 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-02-20 03:47:01 · 14 answers · asked by kenzy 1

I think therefor i am!

2007-02-20 03:46:19 · 38 answers · asked by Anonymous

just thought id say its so crasy the way life can do a 360 turn when it feels like it, it shows that we have no control of our destiny no matter who we are !!

2007-02-20 03:44:21 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

I have a fun hypothetical question for all you freethinkers out there -- especially the hard scientific-positivist atheist types. ;-) Here it is:

In another solar system, there is a thick cloud-covered planet (picture Jupiter), such that the sun never penetrates to the surface, which is an ocean of opaque muddy colloid. Below the depths of this opaque ocean is a solid crust and core, much like ours, that generates heat. From this heat flux, a breed of large complex thermophilic worms evolve, along with millions of other species. Primary production is chemoautotrophic. After evolving transmorphic prolegs, with which they can build tools, they develop complex acoustic communication. Their acoustic perception is as keen as our sight, yet, with no evolutionary need to sense light, they are completely blind. These worms eventually develop mathematics, science, and complex technology.

Question: Could this species ever "discover" the spectrum of electromagnetic radiation (light)?

2007-02-20 03:43:40 · 5 answers · asked by fluvial_shell 2

2007-02-20 03:39:56 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

Please help me.

2007-02-20 03:39:09 · 4 answers · asked by Jimmy H 1

2007-02-20 03:07:11 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

I used to be a machine. Now days I'm lazy and I need to get back on track. How do I get my mojo back?

2007-02-20 03:05:00 · 8 answers · asked by sal 1

2007-02-20 02:08:16 · 26 answers · asked by John 5

Luck has a positive or negative value. You can be lucky or unlucky. But how many times do you hear someone say, "I never win anything." But I know of people who always seem to win something. So, can luck be a genetic trait? After all, everyone is the product of a certain amount of luck, being the culmination of a sperm being in the right place at the right time. But would it be possible to breed for good luck. For example, taking lottery winners etc. and forming relationships between them.
Would their offspring continue to be exceptionally lucky?
Will we see a time when a new breed of human, who can be lucky most of the time. And what about the negative - unlucky. If luck is a part of our Universe then we must have the opposite. But, wouldn't that cause a paradox. As the unlucky ones would be bred out of existence. Unless, we can have a quantifiable limit to Luck. This question is really for a forum. But I am intrigued into what answers I might receive.

2007-02-20 02:07:09 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

do u ever feel like whats wrong with me ...Im 18 and i have never had a boyfriend by the looks of it never will,i cant study properly, the only things that i can do is shop and try and make myself look pretty but whats the point !!! I actually feel so unbelievable depressed does anyone know what im talking about ??

2007-02-20 01:56:28 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous

I don't feel him in my heart- does that make me evil?

All I do is try to make others happy. my life is positive and i am surrounded by great people. Life has treat me well, but where is allah in my life???

2007-02-20 01:54:25 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-02-20 01:43:44 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-02-20 01:40:18 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-02-20 01:39:49 · 18 answers · asked by joshelle 1

“These statements may not include the high class people”

The reason that Sarah (Famous Monkey) is smart, it is because people compared her to other monkeys.

People say you are smart, it is because they compare you to your own kinds.

You think you are smart, it is because you only interact with stupid people.

Therefore, the conclusion is that you are not smart, if you compared yourself to the people around the world.

2007-02-20 01:31:03 · 5 answers · asked by Hermes 2

2007-02-20 01:20:41 · 6 answers · asked by Dia 3

2007-02-20 01:13:13 · 11 answers · asked by Tumap 1

improve our creativeness?

in doing business in daily life ,composing music , painting or even in writing a love letter we need to be creative to get good result .

can there be a way to improve it?

"practice makes perfect" can be appliable in this case also?

if so , what will be the practice?

2007-02-20 01:12:43 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

thousands of years of existence... and yet, humans haven't found a way to co-exist peacefully! racial discrimination... religious belligerance... nationalism... sexism... commercial exploitation...

endless differences and discrimination...

every attempts to moralise this world has failed... the world saw great religions , art n philosophy... but the world still burns!

can there ever be peace on this planet? will humans really ever live in a civilized manner? or like lancelot , king arthur's friend once said... the world will always be a battlefield!

humans have evolved scientifically... but are humans incapable of evolving ethically n morally? if so, how would you think it could be possible... since every religion, philosophy and art has failed to humanise this society?

2007-02-20 01:10:35 · 20 answers · asked by x 2

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2007-02-20 00:59:55 · 10 answers · asked by Jyoti D 2

Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone

2007-02-20 00:56:05 · 9 answers · asked by little helper 1

2007-02-20 00:51:45 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

rabbit hole?

2007-02-20 00:45:06 · 6 answers · asked by Parercut Faint 7

and he sees something moving amongst the trees, but no matter how much you look, you can't see it, does that mean its imaginary, or that your brain refuses to accept its existence ?

its a hypothetical question by the way, so no torch offers please lol

2007-02-20 00:35:45 · 19 answers · asked by little helper 1

2007-02-20 00:21:36 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous