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Homuncul

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I woship this post :p And I'm crying because I'm happy, at least there are people in this world who understand these things :rolleyes: But then I... :o Z-z-z-Z-z-z...  [Read More]
Posted in: A fourth demention, and what would it be?
 Homuncul
06-25-2003, 9:15 AM
#30
You got me:) I just wanna be a Super Moderator with as many posts as you have. Mommy, can I be a Moderator?:( Can you at least share with partly. Common, you can give me "super" and I'll become "super sith probe" or "sith...  [Read More]
Posted in: A fourth demention, and what would it be?
 Homuncul
06-24-2003, 4:21 AM
#28
I'm with ya, Commander :bdroid2:...  [Read More]
Posted in: A fourth demention, and what would it be?
 Homuncul
06-23-2003, 8:00 AM
#26
In terms of and relative to what we feel comfortable to count. If we want to count a distance from sun to other stars we only count it relatively to the sun and not to the center of the universe. It's irrelevant at the moment. And the speed with whic...  [Read More]
Posted in: Where is the mind?
 Homuncul
07-03-2003, 9:25 AM
#2
You know I'v been wondering about for quite a time, read some things here and there but never something implicit on the topic so it perhaps my own experience and intuition that makes me guess bout those things. What is death?. It's when heart can no...  [Read More]
Posted in: The pitfall of christianity?
 Homuncul
07-02-2003, 6:11 AM
#16
Free will is a best explanation we have for causality. In fact our inability to measure ultimate causality because it's only measurable relative to something. Probability is the best explanation we have for uncertainty. Again we haven't yet found a w...  [Read More]
Posted in: The pitfall of christianity?
 Homuncul
07-01-2003, 11:46 AM
#12
In the end we don't need to think about ultimate truth until it presents itself in form understandable to us (explanation again). In form of a problem actually. And problem is always a subjective thing. So ultimate truth is ultimately irrelevant unle...  [Read More]
Posted in: The pitfall of christianity?
 Homuncul
07-01-2003, 4:54 AM
#9
So it would be futile because he would be stripping himself of knowledge, yes? But submitting yourself to subjective reality isn't? *Sniff sniff* What's that smell?.....oh, contradiction! You, agnostics are just so talented at asking irrelevant que...  [Read More]
Posted in: The pitfall of christianity?
 Homuncul
06-30-2003, 12:23 PM
#7
Jubitusssssssssss: Free will vs causality, you on one side, I on the other, and we'll never convince either of our oppinion, so let it rest. Redrum! Redrum! :mad: Again it turns out to be fate/free will debate Luc Solar: So what happened? Do you...  [Read More]
Posted in: Is outsourcing the end of the white collar worker?
 Homuncul
06-24-2003, 11:22 AM
#2
Well, I think it's just a world tendency of encreasing quality of work. I magine average accounter, or average programmer. They work for no good money, while there is a big place in job market for high quality accounters and programmers. I study on...  [Read More]
Posted in: Head transplants?
 Homuncul
07-01-2003, 5:29 AM
#34
And furthermore where would we be without science. Human addiction to knowledge is not accident. It all comes from the same nature. In stone age the more experienced ones were leaders of the tribe, giving wise decisions on the survival of their peopl...  [Read More]
Posted in: Philosophy revival
 Homuncul
07-03-2003, 11:35 AM
#46
So here's another follower of nothing!!! Another observer of fate doubting anything to be proof of anything but at the same time taking for granted everything he knows of subjective reality, playing himself games just because of no opportunity to jus...  [Read More]
Posted in: Philosophy revival
 Homuncul
07-03-2003, 2:29 AM
#43
Jah, I guess you stil didn't understand Jub the way I did. There is no way you can confuse him with calculating every cause and effect and not because it has some difficulties there, but just because every our action or observatioon is an act of subj...  [Read More]
Posted in: Philosophy revival
 Homuncul
07-02-2003, 9:39 AM
#35
Again, I speak of the unknowable truth. I can never know it's there, but I can accept it might be. Then why accepting, why allowing a thought of it if there's no way you can perceive it? Why not throw it away? Isn't it complicated to have something...  [Read More]
Posted in: Philosophy revival
 Homuncul
07-02-2003, 7:25 AM
#32
I guess agnosticism is in fashion nowadays... :confused: ... still another follower of this illusion aren't you Jah? I'd say intuition is not at all out of emotions, like in the example where some greek guy can't overrun the turtle. And logic is not...  [Read More]
Posted in: Philosophy revival
 Homuncul
06-30-2003, 5:35 AM
#27
Well, I guess the debate is over. And perhaps in another decade, I'll deal with you. Let's summorize...:( You observe, contemplate and believe in uncertainty (which f course has nothing to do with science). Truth is unknowable and it's reflection (...  [Read More]
Posted in: Philosophy revival
 Homuncul
06-26-2003, 10:46 AM
#25
What do I care if the Occam Razor would exclude it? Too circular? Perhaps we are in a spiral chain of illusions within illusions. Yes, truth is unknowable, and where you say that reality through subjectivity is valid enough for you, I say it's just a...  [Read More]
Posted in: Philosophy revival
 Homuncul
06-26-2003, 6:11 AM
#23
And furthermore, the creator of another's illusion cannot, like the one inside his illusion, claim certainty to the realness of his reality, but I guess I needn't point that out. It's too circular, Occam Razor would just exclude such matters. Let m...  [Read More]
Posted in: Philosophy revival
 Homuncul
06-25-2003, 9:01 AM
#21
Yes, we bear genetic codes with the intent of propagation and survival and we adapt via evolution to achieve and mantain that pattern, but ultimately to no end, ergo pointless. Unless of course we are destined to reach an Enlightenment, that might of...  [Read More]
Posted in: Philosophy revival
 Homuncul
06-24-2003, 1:20 PM
#19
I can only speculate here, as I do not know the exact science behind it, but I guess it would be a matter of plugging input/output wires into our central nerve system and parts of our brains, especially the sense faculties, hooked up to a computer ca...  [Read More]
Posted in: Philosophy revival
 Homuncul
06-24-2003, 3:57 AM
#17
...And why are not more people involved in this thread? I guess some people feel they have already decided unquestionably about such fundamental things that form their world view. For my part I don't feel that way, probably will never feel. Some peo...  [Read More]
Posted in: Philosophy revival
 Homuncul
06-23-2003, 12:24 PM
#15
But I need to address your continious argument that I feel no need to explore 'reality' further because I've settled with fatalism and solipsism. Au contraire I'm quite interested in how existence works, but I simply realize, as said in my initial po...  [Read More]
Posted in: Dreams
 Homuncul
07-01-2003, 9:37 AM
#20
Isn't it what happens each time you wake up in the morning? Stop reading too much sci-fi and go to work :D...  [Read More]
Posted in: Dreams
 Homuncul
06-30-2003, 12:34 PM
#18
Sure, Another Matrix! It sucks, I think :mad: It's like running from reality. I sleep 5 hours a day, feel comfortable about it. My point is: "Sleep when you die"...  [Read More]
Posted in: Fate, destiny, and coincidence
 Homuncul
06-23-2003, 7:33 AM
#36
C'Jais: Though I'm embarassed to say this, they actually explained it fairly well in the new Matrix movie S P O I L E R S - The Merovingian talking about causality and the illusion of choice, and the Architect talking about how Neo had already &quo...  [Read More]
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