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    Why is morality a problem?

    Yes, democracy can devolve into mob rule.
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    Why is morality a problem?

    Your examples of something usually immoral, but in a specific case not immoral, are striking. Seems like in assessing morality, we need to address the 99% of circumstances. But, as your examples illustrate, in accessing whether something is immoral, the specific circumstances must be...
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    Why is morality a problem?

    The 51% need to include the rights and freedoms and needs of the 49% in their governing. This takes caring about the other members of society, including the disadvantaged and downtrodden. I judge a culture by how well it does this.
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    awe + amazement = pantheism

    Example of scientists and philosophers considering soft-sciencey stuff as worthy of study: The hard problem of consciousness; the bubbly foamy multiverse that generated our universe. Certainly, some kinds of questions are easier to answer than others, And some interesting questions will likely...
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    awe + amazement = pantheism

    Certainly, arguments of philosophy can't be validated with the same degree of probabilistic certainty as those of empirical science. I would consider any of the insights of the great thinkers to be a form of philosophical inquiry. So really there is only philosophy, with science being a...
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    Quotes from scientists

    Yes, consciousness is generated in the brain. But the potential of the experience of consciousness must be inherent in the universe, just like the potential for the electric force to arise in certain situations.
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    Quotes from scientists

    Perhaps many UFOs are ball lightening?
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    Quotes from scientists

    Not everyone finds his work so trustworthy. And how do we know that the experiences were actually experienced when the brain was not functioning? Could it not be that they were generated once the brain became conscious again?
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    Quotes from scientists

    But is the randomness of quantum mechanics really random? How do we know something (someone) is not guiding the outcomes? (but is a manner that looks random to us).
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    Quotes from scientists

    Yes. The purpose of critical thinking is to determine truth.
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    Quotes from scientists

    Yes, his quote seems idiotic to me too. Why can't scientists think before they speak?
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    Quotes from scientists

    Haha. Good point.
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    Quotes from scientists

    Yes, good point.
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    Quotes from scientists

    I wonder why scientists sometimes feel the need to use the language of the supernatural to express their feelings? Seems like doing so can have no good benefit.
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    Quotes from scientists

    Yes, good point. The problem for theists is, what is the mechanism by which God (or souls or angels or spirits) interacts with the universe in such a way that we can't detect it? For theists to merely claim something like, "he just does", is, I think, a poor argument.
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    Quotes from scientists

    Yes, I reject truths claims from theology unless verified independently via philosophy and science.
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    Quotes from scientists

    Yes, I reject truths claims from theology unless verified independently via philosophy and science.
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    Quotes from scientists

    Yes, I found his quote suspect as well. Thanks for the good summary with a clear perspective. The only thing additional I think we need to consider is that the universe allows for consciousness to arise in certain situations. Somehow it's built-in to the universe.
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    awe + amazement = pantheism

    I don't think these things were ever true. In propositions of arguments, people believed them to be true. But their belief was mistaken.
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    awe + amazement = pantheism

    I think physicalism has to include all aspects of reality, including things that could be called "spiritual". To be truly scientific, physicalism has to include consciousness and its contents.
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